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Ah… Sangria
View recipe: Ah… SangriaIt’s Saturday. I sip ice-cold sangria, and outside it’s hot, hot, hot. The heat is so unusual, that the streets of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn are blissfully empty. A few passerbys, perilously close to the melting…
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Lazy Ravioli with Cheese
View recipe: Lazy Ravioli with CheeseIt is 95 F today in Boston. Feels like Florida. Even more so since our portable a/c has not arrived yet. So, what’s for dinner today?.. Well, something simple with minimum cooking. I happened to have a package of…
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Okroshka
View recipe: OkroshkaOkroshka is a traditional cold Russian summer soup that doesn’t need to be boiled. It is usually made on hot days when nobody wants to move, let alone cook something serious in the kitchen. This soup contains mostly raw…
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Classic Tiramisu, with Blackberries
View recipe: Classic Tiramisu, with BlackberriesOh, who has not heard of Tiramisu, the modern Cesar of Italian desserts? It has conquered its native country in a storm, taken over the rest of Europe, made its way into the US. Indeed, Tiramisu has an empire…
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Prague Food Adventure
View recipe: Prague Food AdventureAt the end of May we took a mother-daughter trip to Prague, where Nadia had visited at the time when she was pregnant with the other chef of this blog. Of course, she couldn’t have any famous Czech beer…
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Czech Cucumbers Stuffed with Meat
View recipe: Czech Cucumbers Stuffed with MeatThis is the final, and probably the most peculiar dish in our Czech series: thoroughly cooked stuffed cucumbers. I found this in several cookbooks on Czech cuisine, so it most likely is traditionally Czech. As usual, I make a few…
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Kolache – Czech Pastries
View recipe: Kolache – Czech PastriesFunny enough, we couldn’t find kolache, one of traditional Czech pastries, in any Prague bakeries that were on our way. Maybe we just didn’t know the right place… or maybe they became one of those things people make at…
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Knedliky – Czech Dumplings
View recipe: Knedliky – Czech DumplingsWhat could be more Czech than knedliky! They are often served as a side dish to meat with gravy, but there is also a sweet fruity variation that was introduced to us by Stania, one of our guides in…
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Czech Meat and Cabbage Loaf
View recipe: Czech Meat and Cabbage LoafThe recipe for this meatloaf, sekaná in Czech, is adapted from the Czech cookbook (Česká domácí kuchařka díl 1.) mom and I bought while in Prague. To a Russian speaker, translating the ingredients from Czech is rather trivial, and…
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Fiddlehead Fern Salad
View recipe: Fiddlehead Fern SaladThis recipe is another experiment with fiddlehead fern salad. The first one was a complete fiasco. This time it was dashed off intuitively, with Asian cuisine in mind. To my taste, it turned out quite well. If you are…
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