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Czech Gingerbread Our Grandmothers Made

This is not a recipe for gingerbread cookies, nor is it for a gingerbread cake which most Americans identify with. This is the hard gingerbread for grating which our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used in all kinds of recipes. Gingerbread used to be the most common sweetener in Czech kitchens next to honey. It’s very dense...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

October 2, 2020

Golden Slivovitz by R. Jelinek

In the Czech Republic, Pálenka is used to refer to any type of distilled beverage but, most commonly, it is used to refer to fruit brandy, the most popular form of which is made from plums. This plum brandy, which is called Slivovitz, is a type of Pálenka with a long and interesting history. In...

Food, Shopping

March 15, 2020

Wonderful Gift of Pear Williams Pear Brandy

Wat a surprise! I am blessed because a friend randomly showed up with a delightful gift. He told me he went into a local liquor store and asked for a “top shelf Czech liquor product,” and the man at the liquor store sold him a beautiful bottle of R. Jelinek’s Pear Williams Pear Brandy (or...

Food, LIFESTYLE, Shopping

February 29, 2020

Devil’s Toast, Gypsy Toast, Bratislava Toast

A couple of weeks ago we shared our quick and easy recipe for making a favorite Czech snack or pub food, Topinky or Czech Fried Bread with Garlic. Today we are taking that wonderfully delicious fried bread and adding a topping to it. This dish goes by many names, it is known as Cikánské topinky...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

February 21, 2020

Bohemian Potato Mash with Fried Onions

A delicious meal shared by peasants and kings alike, and it’s gluten-free! This is a Czech peasant dish for “adjusted” potato mash with fried onions. In Czech it is called Nastavovaná kaše s osmaženou cibulkou. Nastavovaná means that it has been ‘adjusted’ and by this we mean that nutrients coming from another ingredient have been...

Food, Recipes

February 16, 2020

Czech Sauerkraut Chocolate Cake Recipe

Who would ever imagine that sauerkraut would actually be tasty in a chocolate cake? Well, I thought the same thing about beets and now we make our Czech Style Fudgy Chocolate Cake regularly. Today’s Czech Sauerkraut Chocolate Cake recipe is worth your time to try if you like chocolate cake. It will surely make for...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

February 12, 2020

The Fabulous Lost and Found and the Little Czech Mouse

A wonderful new book was brought to my attention and I believe it’s perfect for those who want to teach kids Czech. Not only is the story fun and the illustrations adorable, but there is an awesome science behind it that you”ll be happy to learn about today. This book a part of a groundbreaking...

Childrens Books, LIFESTYLE

February 1, 2020

Healthy Czech Keto Dish – Zelofleky from Cabbage

We’ve finally given in. In our Everything Czech group on Facebook, we often have call for low carb or keto versions of popular Czech dishes. Let’s face it – the best part about Czech food is the carbs and the fat! But while thinking of what to do with some leftover cabbage this morning, I...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

January 25, 2020

Topinky or Czech Fried Bread with Garlic

The Czechs have a very unique take on their topinky or fried bread slices. Delicious dense rye bread is fried on lard and immediately served with raw garlic cloves. They are a popular side dish to lentils and steak tartar. The best part is that they are usually served with peeled garlic cloves allowing you...

Recipes

January 17, 2020

Czech-Inspired Springtime Skirts

Today we are sharing two lovely skirts that reminded us of old Czech folk embroidery. First you will see the two designs, then you will see the sizing chart and finally there will be an order button. Please remember to specify your size when ordering. Please note that there is just ONE WEEK to place...

LIFESTYLE, Shopping

January 15, 2020

Zemlbába or Žemlovka – Czech Bread Pudding Recipe

Each country that has bread offers up their own version of bread pudding. Bread pudding is a (usually stale) bread-based dessert popular in many countries’ cuisines, made with old bread and milk or cream, generally containing eggs, a form of fat such as oil, butter or lard. Sweet bread puddings may use sugar, syrup, honey,...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

December 31, 2019

New Year’s Eve and Lentils

What is it about New Year’s Eve and lentils? Well – there is an old Czech saying – “Jak na Nový rok, tak po celý rok” which translates as: “As on New Year’s Day, the same throughout the whole year.” Therefore, on New Year’s Day, most Czechs consume lentils (čočka). Lentils are served on New...

Food, Holidays

December 31, 2019

Czech Christmas Chocolate Collections

How many of you remember growing up with Czech Christmas chocolate collections? You know, the ones that came in the large box which included hooks for hanging on your Christmas tree? The chocolates themselves were wrapped to resemble all sorts of Christmas ornaments. In our house, Christmas was not complete unless we had these included...

Food, Holidays, LIFESTYLE

November 17, 2019

International Students’ Day Began with the Czechs

Today is International Students’ Day and a public holiday in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia thanks to the martyrdom of nine at the hands of the Nazi occupation forces this day in 1939. The previous fall, Hitler had cowed the allied powers into ceding the mountainous Czechoslovakian Sudetenland to the Third Reich in order...

LIFESTYLE

October 13, 2019

Potato Flatcakes or Bramborové Placky

Imagine, these little rounds of potato goodness may have been the legacy of the Queen of Bohemia. We’re sure they most likely came from the time when Bohemians started to grow potatoes in our country, sometime in the 1870s – under Maria Theresa. During that time, the potato flatcakes spread throughout the lands of the...

Food, Recipes

September 29, 2019

The Best Czech Pot Luck Dinner Recipe

Do you ever wish you had something other than obložené chlebíčky to bring to a pot luck. Maybe something warm and that would share a taste of your Czech heritage… How about something that carries well, reheats even better and tastes great with beer? Well, today I’m sharing one of my favorite recipes for the best...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

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