Home made eggnog / Domaci vajecny konak

Ingredients:

5 Egg yolks

2 tablespoons of sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

2 cans of sweet condensed milk

1/2 litter of rum/brandy (if you have Czech Rum - Tuzemak is the best)

Directions:

Put egg yolks, sugar and vanilla extract into blender and blend for 10 minutes until it becomes a foam. Don't stop blending and start adding condensed milk one at a time after both cans are in add rum/brandy.

Refridgerate and enjoy!

Dill sauce

Ingredients:

- 1 liter or milk (0,264 gallon)
- 1 box of fresh dill (5 branches), chopped
- instant beef bouillon for 1 liter (0,264 gallon)
- flour (prepare flour paste from 3 tbsp of flour and 1 cup of water, poor through strainer to achieve no blobs)
- 4 tablespoon of sugar
- distilled white vinegar to taste

Directions:

1. Poor one cup of water in a big pot on a low heat. Add instant beef bouillon until dissolved. When dissolved poor milk into pot and stir WELL! If you won't stir it will burn!
2. When milk is hot, add chopped dill, sugar and flour paste. The sauce will start to get thicker. (if its not thick enough, make some more flour paste and add to a mix). Cook on very low heat until it starts bubbling.
3. Boil for 5 minutes. Turn heater off and add vinegar. WARNING: When adding vinegar, never poor directly into sauce!! Take a big spoon, poor 1 teaspoon of vinegar into spoon and mix well. Continue until the sauce has sweet & sour taste. Don't put too much vinegar because you would never fix the sour taste!!!
4. Serve with boiled potatoes and hard boiled eggs.

Dobrou chut;)

Sardines spread

Ingredients

- 2 cans of  sardines in oil or in tomato puree
- 8 oz. of mayo or miracle whip
- 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
- 1/2 of onion (or one small one)- salt, pepper to taste

Directions

1. Chop onion and sardines into fine pieces.
2. Place chopped onion, sardines into bowl, mix with mayo and butter.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste. Let it cool down in a fridge. 4. Serve with any type of bread or cracker, taste delicious.

Egg spread

Ingredients



- 8 hard boiled eggs
- 8 oz. of mayo or miracle whip
- 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
- 1/2 of onion (or one small one)- salt, pepper to taste

Directions

1. Chop onion and hard boiled eggs into fine pieces.
2. Place chopped onion, eggs into bowl, mix with mayo and butter.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste. Let it cool down in a fridge. 4. Serve with any type of bread or cracker, taste delicious.

Palacinky - Crepes

Ingredients (for 10 crepes)

- 2 cups of flour
- 2 cups of milk
- 4 tablespoon of sugar
- oil
- toppings

Directions

1. Whisk flour, milk and sugar together until nice and smooth texture.
2. Preheat pan (medium heat) and start making crepes. Under each crepe (big spoon of dough) put 4 tablespoons of oil.
3. Each crepe must be golden brown from both sides.

Serve with jam, fruit, chocolate, peanut butter or whip cream, and milk

Summer pasta salad

Ingredients:

- 1/2 of pound of any pasta
- 3 tomatoes
- 1/2 of cucumber
- 1 green pepper
- 2 tablespoons of mayo
- 3 tablespoons of plain yogurt
- 2 cheese sticks
- salt
- pepper

Directions:

1. Cook pasta (as said on the box). When done cool in cold water, drain and place into large bowl.
2. Cut tomatoes, cucumber and green pepper and cheese sticks into small pieces. Place into bowl with pasta.
3. Add salt, pepper to taste. Add mayo and yogurt.
4. Mix well with salad silverware and put into fridge.
5. Serve after cooling it down.

- delicious during hot summer days

Dobrou chut:)

Ceske rohliky - Czech Rolls

Ingredients: 

- 0.13 gallon of milk (1/2 of liter)
- 2,2 lb of flour
- o,2 lb of oil (90 gram)
- 2 packages of Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast (1/2 oz)
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- salt


Directions:


1. Make a leaven from 2 tablespoon of  milk, sugar and yeast. When ready mix with the rest of milk,  flour and oil, and make a dough.  
2. Form 4 little balls and let rise. After they grow twice their size roll circles (1/4 of inch thick).
3. Each circle divide into 8 triangles and paint with butter. 
4. Start making rolls by rolling triangles from wide to narrow side. 
5. Place on baking sheet (buttered) and let rise for another 20 minutes. 
6. When ready shake with sesame, cheese, caraway, salt or whatever u like.
7.  Bake for 30 minutes or till brown and golden color. (430 degrees Fahrenheit)



Leaven (Foam yeast):
All ingredients for leaven mix in warm porcelain bowl and let foam in a warm spot (80-85 degrees) for 15 minutes.

Rizek - Fried Chicken/Pork

Ingredients:

- Chicken breast/any pork meat without fat
- breadcrumbs
- 3 eggs
- flour
- salt

Directions:

1. Beat your meat into thiner pieces and salt from both sides.
2. Coat with flour, egg and breadcrumbs (3 layer coating)
3. Heat up oil in frying pan (oil in 1/4 of inch high)
4. Fry your meat until golden brown.

Serve with fries, potatoes and gravy.

Stuffed peppers

Ingredients

- green or white peppers
- tomatoes
- kielbasa or any other sausage
- block of any hard cheese
- bacon

Directions

1. Cut off top of peppers and clean them. Place them on a plate and put them in microwave for 5 minutes - they will get softer.
2. Cut sausage and cheese into small pieces and start stuffing peppers. When all your peppers done put them into baking pan, cover with bacon and slices of tomatoes.
3. Put into oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit). Bake for 30 minutes.

Dobrou chut

Smazeny kvetak - Fried Cauliflower

Ingredients:

- 1 large cauliflower, cut into florets
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1-2 cups of flour
- salt

Directions:

1. Cut cauliflower into florets put into cold water and start boiling. When the water starts boiling turn of, strain the water and let the cauliflower cool down.
2. When the cauliflower is cold start rolling in 2 layers. First is mix of eggs, milk and flour (should be thick enough so it stays on the cauliflower), second layer is breadcrumbs.
3. Broil in 350 degrees Fahrenheit  (slowly). The cauliflower must be half way sunk in oil to be fried properly. When nice golden brown color, place on paper towel to soak the extra oil and serve with fries, potatoes or mashed potatoes.

Dobrou chut:)

Czech Style Apple Pie - Jablecny kolac

Ingredients

- two 9-inch pie crusts
- 4 big green apples
- 4 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons of sugar (or little more if you like)

Directions

1. Place 1 pie crust inside your 9-inch form.
2. Cut apples into slices (1/4'')
3. Place apples on crust (sprinkle the apples with sugar and cinnamon)
4. Place 2nd crust on pie and make little holes into crust.
5. Bake for 30 minutes or till the crust is nicely gold.
6. Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar.

Pickled cheese - Nakladany syr

Ingredients

- President (Brie) cheese
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 1 small onion
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 4 bay leaves
- 5 balls of whole black pepper
- 5 balls of whole allspice
- olive oil

Directions

1. Cut cheese in pieces (any size is possible, smaller is better, 1'' wide)
2. Take any glass jar (I used the one from my bell peppers) and start with cheese on the bottom.
3. Cut all vegetables into small pieces.
4.. Rotate the ingredients in the jar (cheese, garlic, onion, cheese, jalapeno spices, cheese...). Also you can push garlic inside your cheese.
5. When your jar is full with our mix, fill jar with olive oil.
6. Put inside your fridge and let sit for at least 5 days.
7. Serve with bread, wine or just as it is.

Cocoa balls - Cokoladove koule - The best chocolate treat you will ever taste

Ingredients

- 100 g of dark chocolate (shredded)
- 100 g of powdered sugar
- 100 g of fine shredded almonds
- 1 egg white (raw)
- rum or any your favorite cognac
- dark chocolate for covering the balls

Filling

- 125 g of unsalted butter
- 1 hard boiled egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar

Directions

1. Mix dark dough in one bowl. Mix filling in other bowl.
2. Make a little flat circle from a dark dough, make a little ball from the filling and place it on the flat circle of dark dough.
3. Form a ball, place it in the bowl full of shredded dark chocolate and cover the whole surface.
4. Refrigerate for at least 5 hours - if possible and serve.

Kureci spizy - Czech Skewers

 

Ingredients

- chicken breast
- 1 small onion
- 1 small zucchini 
- 1 chili pepper
- 1/2 of green pepper
- 2 tablespoon of oil
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of black pepper
- 1 tablespoon of paprika or curry

Directions

1. Cut meat, onion, zucchini, green pepper and chili pepper into small pieces (should be the same size, slices or circles)
2. Put meat in a bowl, add oil and spices. Let sit for 5 minutes so the meat catch the flavors.
3. Start filling the skewers with meat and vegetables.
4. Broil on low heat skillet with the lid on. (30 minutes)
5. Serve with toast or boiled potatoes.

Hot red wine - Svarak

Ingredients

- 1 liter of cheap red wine
- 10 pieces of whole cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1/2 of lemon
- 1/2 of orange
- 4-7 teaspoons of sugar

Directions

1. Poor wine into big pot, add cloves, cinnamon sticks, orange and/or lemon and heat up. (Do not boil)
2. When hot add sugar (should be sweet enough for your taste) and serve.

Drink during long cold winter, or as a festive drink with friends or just because its good:)

Potato pancakes - Bramboraky

Ingredients

- 6 large potatoes
- 2 eggs
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1/4 cup of milk
- 3/4 of flour
- 1 tablespoon of dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- oil

Directions

1. Grate the potatoes
2. Add milk, crashed garlic, eggs, salt, marjoram and mix well.
3. Add the flour.
4. Start putting pancakes on a hot oiled frying pan (the thinner the better, size doesn't matter)
5. Fry slowly each side of the pancake until golden color.

In addition you can add pieces of any meat, sausage, bacon or sauerkraut or any cheese in the mixture.

Spinach soup

Igredients

- 1 bag of frozen spinach
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 5 oz of cream
- 2 cloves of garlic
- salt
- black pepper

Direction
1. Heat up butter, add thaw spinach and 1/2 liter of water.
2. Add salt, cream and cook for 15 minutes.
3. When done, add crushed garlic and blend with hand blender.

Tomato soup

 Ingredients

- 15 oz of diced tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 2 teaspoon of salt
- beef or chicken bouillon (according to package)
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- bread croutons


Directions

1. Heat up butter in a pot, add flour and make a flour mix. Add tomatoes and poor 1 liter of water.
2. Cook for 20 minutes. Take of the heat and mix with hand blender. Add salt, bouillon sugar and cinnamon. Possible to add cream when finished.
3. Eat with bread croutons.

Garlic soup - Hangover cure

Ingredients

- 2 big potatoes
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 4-6 cloves of garlic
- salt

Directions

1. Heat up butter, add flour and cold water. Add salt,and potatoes (cut in small pieces).
2. Cook for 15 minutes. Before the end of cooking add garlic (cut in small pieces).
3. Eat with bread croutons or garlic bread.

Thick leek soup with thyme

Ingredients


- 2 big leeks
- 2 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 4 tablespoon of flour
- 3,5 oz of soft cheese (Laughing Cow)
- 1 liter of chicken broth
- salt
- pepper
- 4 oz of cream
- 2 teaspoon of thyme

Directions

1. Peal leek, cut off the hard end and cut in small pieces. In a big pot heat up oil and butter, add leek and let it seared up. This will take 3 minutes. Add flour and stir well.
2.Into mix add pieces of cheese and mix until smooth. Poor the chicken broth in and mix. Add salt, pepper and boil for 20 minutes.
3. Take of the heat, poor into blender (or blend with hand mixer). Add cream.
4.Add thyme and its ready to eat.