This is a recipe for Lazanki that I experimented, altered and adopted from looking at many recipes in old cookbooks and researching on the internet. There are many variation out there that you can find … Continue reading →
We are coming down to the home stretch to Christmas Day. Now it the time to get our acts together and if we are serious about baking our family favorites we better get … Continue reading →
Gołąbki or in the States we referred to them as golumpki or just as Stuffed Cabbage. Stuffed Cabbage is common dish of the Slavic region as well as in the Anglo regions of … Continue reading →
Czechoslovakian Pagach A delicious part of your Christmas Eve & Good Friday meatless meal I don’t remember much of my Slovakian grandmother making pagach but I do remember fondly as a kid of my … Continue reading →
They are an age-old Eastern/Central European delicacy that serves as an appetizer, main course of a meal and even a dessert. Pierogi are basically dumplings that are first boiled and then fried with butter … Continue reading →
Let’s talk about your leftover meals. The first part of the Christmas Season Holiday is over and we still have New Years! Despite your best efforts to fill your belly with turkey, stuffing and … Continue reading →
By my mom: Anne (Daniewicz) Lipovsky Yourstone Back in December of 2015 my mother called reminding me that I am now in possession of her old cookbooks. One of them is Whiting Indiana’s St. … Continue reading →
When I was younger, my mother made placki ziemniaczane, or potato pan cakes, many times using leftover mashed potatoes from a big Sunday dinner. Making these today bring back so many good memories of mom’s … Continue reading →
New Look for a growing site! Please, browse the site and feel free to comment below with what you think! NEW BRIGHTER LOOK – NEW MENU FORMAT NOW WITH DROP-DOWN SUBMENUS Follow us on … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
At Easter, boys in Hungary would sprinkle girls with perfume scented water while citing one of the funny little poems they wrote for these occasions. Today this is a tamer version where … Continue reading →
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 →
