Slovakian Pagach
Good Friday, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified, is one of the most sacred days in the Christian calendar. Under the Rules for Fasting and Abstinence in the Catholic Church, Good … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Slovak Recipes
Slovakian Kolacky
This kolacky recipe is a yeast dough cookie recipe from former Czechoslovakia and can be made with different flavors of firm fruit fillings such as lekvar made from prune or apricot. You can … Continue reading →
Polish Kolaczki Cookies
Kolaczki is a delicious soft delicate pastry made with cream cheese and filled with your favorite lekvar filling of apricot, prune or any other FIRM fruit filling. Sometimes called Polish fold-overs or crescents exist, … Continue reading →
Two (2) Cheese Babka Recipes
There is much written about the history of the Czech and Slovak people but unlike the Chinese or Italians their cuisine is not all that known world-wide. Slovak cuisine is unique. … Continue reading →
Paska – Easter Sweet Bread
Like many of the other Eastern Europeans, Slovaks attach a great importance to the serving of our traditional foods on Christmas and Easter. These two Holidays are basically the only major observances of … Continue reading →
Slovak Easter Cheese – Veľká noc Cirák
This is a traditional Slovak Easter cheese that is served Easter Sunday. It is traditionally served with baked ham, and is great on sandwiches. It is also very mild in flavor and not like … Continue reading →
Homemade Vanilla Sugar
A lot of European cookie recipes use vanilla sugar in place of vanilla extract. Vanilla sugar is mostly a homemade item that is sold commercially but not found in grocery stores. You can find … Continue reading →
Czechoslovakian Halusky
Traditionally, Bryndzové Halušky is mixed with a sheep milk cheese called bryndza in the former Czechoslovakia. I used Feta cheese in this adapted recipe. You can serve this as a side dish to something like … Continue reading →