Babka is a sweet, leavened bread created from a rich dough made for Easter Sunday throughout Slavic cuisines including Ukrainian and Polish. Traditionally the practice of […]
Eastern European
Traditional Paczki
Paczki (PAWNCH-kee or POONCH-kee) are deep-fried pieces of dough shaped into flattened spheres, fried, then filled. They bear a similarity to North American Bismarcks or […]
Bigos (Hunter’s Stew)
A national dish of Poland, bigos is a traditional one-pot meat-and-cabbage stew, often referred to as a “hunter’s stew” and usually made during the winter months or […]
Smalec (Polish Lard Spread)
Many of us here in the Coal Region well remember our grandparents or parents sitting down to enjoy a food from their childhood that we, […]
Kutya (Merry Orthodox Christmas!)
January 1st has come and gone. In many villages, towns, and cities, the curb sides are adorned with once-fresh Christmas trees still dripping with specks […]
Bobalky
A traditional food on the Christmas eve meal table in many Slovak families are little pieces of sweet bread known as bobaľky (bo-ball-kee). Boblaky is often […]