London Bars

April 22, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Ingredients: Dough: All Purpose Flour (8) oz Powder sugar (2.5) oz Butter unsalted (5.5) oz Egg yolks (3) Lemon zest (1/2) lemon Baking powder (1/2) teaspoon Preserve/jam (16) oz Top Layer/Meringue: Egg whites (4) Sugar granulated (6.30) oz Ground walnuts (6.35) oz Method: Blend the flour, sugar, softened butter Add yolks, work the dough Roll […]

Poppy seed cake with custard filling

April 22, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ingredients: Batter: 8 Egg whites 14 oz / 200 gr powder sugar 7 oz / 100 gr ground poppy seeds 3 tablespoons ground walnuts 3 tablespoon semi-coarse wheat flour (Wondra in the US) Powder sugar (2.5) oz Filling: 23.6 fl. oz / 700 ml milk 10 tablespoons granulated sugar 8 Egg yolks 5-1/2 tablespoons corn […]

Secrets of the Slovak grandmas … or where you can eat pirohy in New York

January 22, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Hello readers, Thought it would be great to discover together some of the local New York addresses with family recipes, memories and stories related to them. Let’s start with East-Slovak specialty called “pirohy”, or what is commonly known here as “Pierogies”. When we arrived in New York in 2015, my heart bumped up when I […]