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Saturday, January 10, 2015

On the Trilece Trail: Three Milks Cake, Balkan-Style

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Trilece or Three Milks Cake, from my California kitchen Three milks cake is a seductive sweet with a mysterious past. North and...
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Sunday, December 21, 2014

New Potica Horizons, A Retrospective for 2014

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Christmas Walnut Potica, December 2014 As another year of Slovenian cooking comes to a close, I have been thinking about potica. ...
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Monday, December 8, 2014

Slovenian Christmas Biscotti (Domači Prijatelj)

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This is my latest experiment with domači prijatelj ("domestic friends"), otherwise known as Slovenian biscotti or mandelb...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Savory Buckwheat Cheesecake, Plain and Fancy

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This unusual savory cheesecake was adapted from a dessert recipe called ajdova zlevanka, from Janez Bogataj's The Food and Cooking ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Mlinci Brei, Slovenian-Jewish Fusion

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There wasn't much left in the package of   Ljubljana Farmers' Market mlinci  we brought back from our July trip to Slovenia. ...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Buckwheat Cake with Syrup (and a dash of Yugo-nostalgia)

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This unusual buckwheat cake was the first new Slovenian recipe I tried after we returned from our July trip to Europe . Months earlie...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Two Favorites for the Jewish New Year: Best-Ever Honey Cake and Murray's Kreplach, Revisited

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This holiday season has brought new twists to two traditional Jewish favorites.   Murray's Chicken-Beef Kreplach ...