In some restaurants and diners in Pennsylvania Dutch country, you will find a dish much more obscure than the well-known PA Dutch pot pie or […]
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Lithuanian Saltibarsciai (Cold Beet Soup)
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 […]
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 […]
Holiday Cheese Ball
Growing up in the early 1970’s. my parents and I made an annual pilgrimage “south” a couple weeks before Christmas day, weather permitting. We weren’t […]
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 […]
Homemade Sauerkraut
If you find yourself picking up a can, jar, or bag of sauerkraut at the grocery store time after time, you might be surprised at […]