Baked Potatoes with Sauerkraut (Pečené Zemiaky s Kyslou Kapustou)
Ingredients: one potato, 0.8 lb sauerkraut, 1/6th cup of sour cream (optional), caraway, oil, bacon Prep Time: 10 minutes plus some 30 minutes for baking Today I came back from a four day conference (International Conference on Plasma Sciences in Norfolk, VA) to an empty fridge. An almost empty fridge. Besides one lonely yogurt, some cottage cheese and a stale nut roll, it contained one potato, about half a bag of sauerkraut, and fried bacon bits left over from making cabbage dumplings. In other words, just the right ingredients for making baked potatoes with sauerkraut, the dish from the times Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Categories: Meatless Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, caraway, potato, sauerkraut, sour cream
Cabbage Halusky (Strapačky)
Ingredients: halusky (Slovak potato dumplings), sauerkraut, caraway seeds Prep Time: At least an hour for the kraut to get soft Last weekend the EU embassies here in Washington, D.C. held an open house. Each embassy had some free goodies symbolizing that respective country. Germans had bratwurst, Belgians beer and chocolate, Poles kielbasa. The Slovak embassy cooked up strapačky and served them with cold Slovak Golden Pheasant (zlatý bažant) beer. If you attended this even, and want to try making this simple, yet very traditional dish at home, well you are in luck. Here is (my) recipe for strapačky. About the Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Monday, May 17, 2010
Categories: Pasta, Dumplings and Halusky, Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, bryndza, flour, potato, sauerkraut
Mushroom Soup (Hubová Polievka)
Ingredients: 1oz dried mushrooms (or 8oz fresh ones), 5 cups water, 3 large potatoes, 4 slices thick smoked bacon, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons sour cream, salt Prep Time: 30 minutes My friends Chris and Patricia came for a weekend visit during my 2010 trip to Slovakia. They live in or near Munich. I took them on a short country tour: Bratislava (the capital), Bojnice (fairytale castle and a spa) and Banská Bystrica (my beautiful hometown). And of course, the tour involved much sampling of Slovak food. Chris very much enjoyed the Slovak cuisine, but Patricia was little less impressed. Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Soup Recipes
Ingredients: bacon, flour, mushrooms, potato, sour cream
Green Bean Soup (Polievka zo Zelenej Fazule)
Ingredients: 1lb of green beans, 1.5L (~6.5 cups) of water, 2 small potatoes, 40g flour (5 tablespoons), 40g butter (1/3 stick), 2dl (small 8oz tub) of sour cream, vinegar, 1g (teaspoon) of sugar, dill Prep Time: 45 minutes Here is a recipe for another popular soup, one made with green beans (zelená fazuľa) and potatoes (zemiaky). Green beans, the immature bean pods, are quite healthy. They are high in vitamin C, and also contain insoluble fibers which aid in digestion. The recipe comes from “Recepty starej mamy” (Grandmother’s recipes), a classic cookbook from 1984 by M. Martišová and F. Martiš. Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Soup Recipes
Ingredients: beans, butter, dill, flour, paprika, potato, sugar, vinegar
Fried Hamburger (Fašírka)
Ingredients: 1lb pork, 3 cloves garlic, one quarter medium onion, one egg, bread roll about the length of your open hand, milk, salt, black pepper, flour, bread crumbs, side (4 boiling potatoes, quarter of chopped up red cabbage, salt, sugar, caraway, butter, few slices of red pepper) Prep Time: About an hour, including boiling potatoes Nowadays, it’s easy to satisfy your hamburger craving in Slovakia. Many major cities have a McDonald’s. And even those that do not will have a myriad of street vendors selling all kinds of burgers. But, even with all this hamburger variety around, don’t forget to Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010
Categories: Pork, Beef and Chicken Recipes, Recipes
Ingredients: bread, cabbage, egg, flour, garlic, milk, onion, pork, potato