Czech/Slovak RECIPES

Recipe for Czech home-made liver patte!!! / Recept na Jatrovou pastiku!!!

You are not going to believe it but one of you guys (thank you Petre from Austria!) sent me a recipe on a Czech HOME-MADE patte!!!!!! We already know how to bake a traditional Czech bread, make dumplings or even Czech cottage cheese (tvaroh) and now we have recipe for pastika (patte). What more can we ask for?? In his email to me Peter also points out that pastika has a huge potential because one can flavor it according to his likings. For instance, you can add walnuts, pears or even cranberries in it.

Enough of squawking, here is the recipe that comes from Peter’s grandma’s Czech butcher. Can’t get anymore authentic than that. [click to continue…]

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Great potato-cauliflower side dish (by Slovak Mama) / Vyborna bramborovo-kvetakova priloha (autor: Slovak Mama)

Czechs and Slovaks are one of the few nations that LOVE cauliflower. They eat it raw, cooked, mashed up and breaded….you name it! I found this delicious and easy cauliflower recipe on a blog called Slovak Mama. Like myself, Lenka (aka Slovak Mama) has been living in the US for quite some time, has a couple of kiddos and in her free time blogs about a bunch of different things, especially Slovak cuisine. [click to continue…]

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Czech muffin: is it going to survive? / Cesky muffin: prezije to?

If the Czech traditional kitchen had muffins in its repertoire, what would they look like? Well, it has to have raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, vanilla and apples….that’s kind of like the all-famous Apple Strudel! Nothing really new under the sun but if you put it in a muffin form it adds a bit of novelty to it. I also spiced it up by using molasses instead of sugar to create a bit richer taste.

So what do you think? Is it going to make it among other Czech ‘buchtas‘?

CZ: Kdyby ceska kuchyne mela ve svem repertoaru muffiny (nebo spis mafiiiiny), jake by asi bylo jeho slozeni? Mno, tak by tam musely byt samozrejme rozinky, vlaske orechy, vanilka, troska skorice a take jablicka…tedy takovy jablkovy zavin v mufinove podobe. Tedy je to neco trosku jineho, jeste kdyz ho navic posypete drobenkou. Ja jsem k tomu jeste pouzila molasses (melasa syrup??) misto cukru, aby to melo trosku netradicni a trosku obsahlejsi chut.

Tak co myslite, prezil by cesky mafiiiin mezi ostatnimi ceskymi buchtami??>

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How to make Czech/Slovak cottage cheese (TVAROH) / Jak si doma udelat CS tvaroh

The New Year celebrations are over so let’s get back to work and talk about something practical, like ‘how to make Czech cottage cheese or TVAROH. Tvaroh is a necessity to many Czech/Slovak meals so once we learn it we are close to reaching the ‘Czech nirvana’ .

Thanks to the wonderful Slovak lady named Dagmar, you can make yourself a wonderful authentic tvaroh by following a step-by-step recipe accompanied with wonderful pictures. She even translated it into English for me!!!! [click to continue…]

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Green light for Beehive cookies / Pro vceli uly je to “go”

If you are celebrating Christmas the Czech way, you have GOT to make Czech Christmas cookies. And if you are making Czech Christmas cookies you have GOT to make Beehives. Along with vanilla crescents and linz tarts, they are a must.

The only problem is that you need to have a specific mold to make them which I used to think one could not buy in the US. Well, I was wrong! You can buy the cookie mold from a website called beehivecookies.com (www.beehivecookies.com). For a very reasonable price you not only get the mold but also a cookbook and a plunger tool to make a well for the filling.

The owner of the website is Jan who not only has a Polish heritage but also married a Polish husband. Jan is an expert on beehives. She has been making them for past 8 years and the beauty of her recipes is that you don’t have to bake them at all. [click to continue…]

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Another Czech Christmas cookie recipe: Bear Paws / Dalsi recept na ceske cukrovi: Medvedi tlapky

Czech Bear Paws are completely different from the American bear claws which I used to get at Starbucks sometimes. Our bear paws are part of the cookie selection which one prepares during Christmas time.

The only hurdle to make this delicatessy abroad is the cookie mold. But that hurdle was crossed when one of you guys (thanks Dagmar!) told me to use the Madeleine cookie pan. It works great but I have to admit that you get bear claws that are a big bigger then the traditional ones, probably a size of a real bear claw . [click to continue…]

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Perfect autumn dessert: Plum cake / Perfektni podzimni dezert: Svestkovy kolac

Costco is now selling plums but the problem is that it sells about 200 of them in a box so you have to consume them quickly before they go bad. One way to get rid of them is to make a delicious Czech plum cake. It is very easy and makes a great and unique entertainment food since most Americans don’t know such cake.

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Czech delicacy: Furry Dumplings / Ceska pochoutka: Chlupate knedliky

This is one of those Czech recipes which has a weird name: FURRY DUMPLINGS. Don’t ask me who came up with that name but it probably comes from the fact that they are covered with mounts of string-like sauerkraut. Or maybe the person who named this recipe kept finding hair in his meal ? Not sure. Either way, they are awesome.

This particular recipe was passed on to Greg by his Czech great-grandmother. The only new thing that is added to it is the spinach ingredient, since we thought it would give it a bit more user-friendly image. Now it has that healthy ‘vegetable’ or ‘salad’ ingredient that everyone is looking for in a healthy or semi-healthy meal, plus it looks more appealing! [click to continue…]

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Perfect summer delight:Egg spread/Vyborna letni pochoutka: vajecna pomazanka

This is a perfect summer snack or a main course. It’s quick, healthy and it’s cold!

CZ: Vajecna pomazanka moje oblibena letni pochoutka. Nejen ze je zrava (no a take trosku tucna) a rychle se pripravi, ale ji se vychlazena, takze se clovek nemusi u jidla potit
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