With an intense pink color, this soup is a refreshing dish, often served during the warm summer months. Saltibarsciai (shalt-eh-barsh-chay) is a cold version of […]
Main Dishes
Saucy Stewed Hosey Burgers
In many small towns in The Coal Region, the center of activity is the local fire company and its usually attached social hall/bar. We affectionately […]
Coal Region Kishki (aka Potato Sausage)
In the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania, we enjoy a potato sausage known to many of us as Kishki. Kishki is not to be […]
Coney Island Sauce
As a child in the 60’s and early 70’s growing up in a very small town in Schuylkill County in the southern end of the […]
Halupki (Cabbage Rolls)
For many of us in the Coal Region, halupki — cabbage rolls — are at the top of our comfort food list. They evoke fond […]
Hungarian Strapachka (aka Slovak Bryndzove Halusky)
My introduction to this lovely dish came quite recently. In Johnstown (PA) one of the great summer events held annually is the Cambria City Ethnic […]