Czech Foods Recipes

I made this recipe up on a whim using ingredients I found in my parents house while on holiday.  However, I think I have stumbled onto a winning recipe here.  This cupcake is perfect for those who usually find cupcakes, with their globs of frosting, to be too sweet.  Instead, this recipe plays off the strength of adding a bit of savory to something sweet.  And just in the same way that caramel benefits from salt, so does the peanut butter and chocolate in this recipe.  The pretzel topping dipped in the frosting reminds me of something I had as a child, though I can't quite put my finger on it. 1 recipe prepared dark chocolate cake (24 cupcakes) 1 1/2 Sticks butter 1/3 cup peanut butter 4 cups powdered (icing) sugar 24 pretzels Sea salt 1. Prepare approx. 24 dark chocolate cupcakes (box mix if you're in a hurry). 2. Allow cupcakes to cool. 3. In a large bowl, cream butter and peanut butter using an electric mixer. 4. Add sugar slowly until desired consistency. 5....

I'm sitting at my dining table eating a bowl of garlic soup and thinking about my great grandfather, Alois J. Morkovsky. The story my mother tells me is that he would ask my grandmother to make the soup for him when he was feeling under the weather, like coming down with a cold.  (He lived with her and her family in his later years.) I have friends in the Czech Republic who recommend the same treatment (eating garlic) for a cold along with tying a scarf around ones neck. The soup I'm eating today evolved over the last week or so. On Sunday, the 30th, I went to Hallettsville for the annual Morkovsky reunion where I got several people to tell me stories about Alois Morkovsky. My parents and I stayed at my grandmother's house (she passed in January of 2012) and I helped my parents make roast pork, a squash casserole, and potatoes with butter and onions for the event. When it came time to drain the water from boiling the potatoes, both my mother and I had the same...

  So... my favorite flavor is 'blue'.  My musings throughout the day are usually consumed by thoughts about when I'll be able to sip my next blue raspberry icee/slushie.  For this reason, I had to invent my own, as I don't have any of that beautiful, much-coveted blue slushie syrup. You will need (for 1 large/2 small): 12 ice cubes 3 Tbsp Kool Aid Blue Raspberry Lemonade Drink Mix 1/2 cup club soda 1/2 cup water 1. Dissolve Kool Aid in the water. 2. Add 12 ice cubs to a blender with a smoothie setting. 3. Add in Kool Aid mixture and blend until smooth. 4. Pour in club soda and serve.

Another multipurpose recipe!  Perfect for an english tea time or a Christmas cookie tray dusted with powdered sugar snow.  This recipe is a slightly tweaked version of Better Homes and Garden's Mini Raspberry and White Chocolate Whoopie Pies. For Vanilla Whoopie Pies you will need: 1/2 cup butter (room temperature) 1 cup sugar Pinch of salt 3/4 tsp baking soda 1 large egg 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups flour 1/2 cup buttermilk 1. Preheat oven to 375 F/190 C. 2. In a large bowl, cream butter. 3. Add sugar, salt, and baking soda and mix. 4. Add egg and vanilla. Mix. 5. Add in flour and buttermilk (alternating between the two). 6. Drop dough in heaping teaspoonfuls onto a parchment-covered (or some other VERY non-stick surface)  baking tray. 7. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes at 375 F/190 C.  Allow to sit for five minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. For the Raspberry Cream filling , you will need: 1 small jar of raspberry preserves (...

And now for a recipe that accurately reflects the season... a simple kiwi smoothie!  Perfect for long hot and sunny days. You will need: 5 kiwis 1/2 cup orange juice 2 Tablespoons honey 1 3/4 cups ice (roughly) 1. Peel kiwis and cut into fourths. 2. Combine kiwis, orange juice, and honey in blender. 3. Once it has liquidized, add the ice (to avoid putting strain on your blender's motor). Enjoy!

Panera Sourdough Bread Bowl with Cream of Tomato Soup from the British Section of the grocery store hehe

Ajay's Dinner Steak and American-Style Baked Beans