Cut the bacon into small squares and fry it on a frying pan along with one chopped onion.
Cook until onion is glossy color and bacon crispy. Set aside to cool.
In a medium bowl mix turkey and beef, add salt, garlic, eggs, marjoram, and breadcrumbs. Mix well.
In a separate bowl pour cup of milk and individually dip one slice of bread at a time in the milk. Squeeze the access milk out of the bread, and add the soaked bread to the meat mixture along with the bacon and onion.
Stir everything together.
Wet your hands and form out of the mixture two same size cylinder shapes, and place them on greased baking dish.
Bake at 375° F for one hour and 15 minutes or until the meatloaf turns brown.
After done baking, slice the meatloaf into half inch thick slices. Serve with mashed potatoes and gravy and vegetables.
In a dough mixer place flour, salt, sugar, egg yolks, yeast mixture, milk, melted butter and lemon zest. Kneed it well.
Place the dough in greased bowl, covered with plastic foil, and place it in a warm place to rise.
Once the dough has doubled its size, create small balls. Pinch the dough together at the top, like a knapsack, and roll the ball between both palms into smooth ball.
Grease the bottom of the pan, and place the individual balls, 2 inches apart on the pan.
Let rise again, and then preheat the oven to 350°F.
Bake for 5 minutes.
Brush the tops of the rolls with egg wash (1 egg+1tbsp water). and bake for 15 more minutes. If the tops get dark cover lightly with tin foil. Every oven bakes differently.
In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup of water, 1 tsp of sugar, and 2 Tbs yeast. Set aside.
In a dough mixer, cream margarine with sugar, add eggs one by one, salt, and 2 cups of flour.
Add 1-1/2cups of water, yeast mixture, and 2 more cups of flour.
Switch beaters to dough hook. Add lemon zest and the rest of the flour. Mix well. If the dough sticks to your fingers when pinched add more flour.
Place in a bowl with greased bottom, cover, and let rise in warm place.
Empty the dough from the bowl on to a floured surface. Kneed till more firm.
Roll out the dough like a pizza in a rectangle shape.
Spray baking sheet with non-stick spray. Place the dough on it, and spread it with your fingers covering the whole sheet. With bent pointer push the dough towards the edge of the pan creating pizza like edge.
Make toping by mixing topping ingredients together by hand.
For Koláče you may use plums, apricots, or blueberries. If using plums or apricots, split the fruit in half, take the pit out, and place the fruit centre down. Completely over the dough’s surface, and sprinkle with ½ c of sugar and crumble toping over the fruit.
Preheat the oven to 350° F and bake for 40 minutes or till the edges are light brown.
You can also make different sizes and shapes, where you leave edge like pizza. When using this method brush the edges with egg wash, and bake 25 to 30 minutes.
In a medium bowl combine milk, sugar, salt, and vanilla
Mix with wire whisk and start slowly adding flour, mix well till the dough is smooth.
Preheat frying pan, spray with nonstick spray, and pour in thin layer of dough. Depending on the size of your pan, make sure the dough covers the whole area. Once you pour in the dough lift the pan and in rotating motion of the pan, let the dough run to the sides .
Wait till the top of the dough turns yellow and with the help of a knife lift the corner of the crape ,and check if ready. What are you looking for is lite brown spots.
Turn the crape over.
when done stack the crapes on top of each other an cover with foil.
Prepare the filing. In a mixing bowl place the cream cheese, add the sugar and with fork work the sugar in .
Add the yogurt, mix well. Set aside.
Cut washed strawberries in to slices. Reserve half of them whole for topping, and the rest smash with fork and 2 tbsp of sugar (you want pieces not sauce) .
To finish the crapes, take one piece, place it on a plate, spread thin layer of jam on the whole crape, spoon out cheese sauce right in the middle, top with spoon full of mashed strawberries.
Now fold one end over the center, and the other over the first. Top with sliced strawberries and finish with large spoon full of cool whip.
Recipe Notes
I use the electric grill to make these. You can cook 3 crapes at a time an be done faster. These crapes would be served as a desert,but if you want to serve them with a soup use just jam or yogurt instead of filling.
Nuttella (hazel nut spread) with bananas and cool whip is also a great way to serve crapes.
In a pressure cooker place pork, chopped onion, salt and water. Close the lid of the pressure cooker and bring to boil on high temperature. Once the pressure cooker starts making hissing sound, turn down the temperature to medium low. Cook for 35 to 40 minutes.
While the meat is cooking, peel and cube 8 cups of carrots.
To open the pressure cooker, place it in the kitchen sink, and start pouring cold water on top of the lid. When it's safe to open the lid, remove the meat from the water and place it on a cutting board. Cut the meat into smaller cubes. Cover the meat with plastic wrap.
To the broth add the 8 cups of cubed carrots, half a teaspoon salt and 1 cube of beef flavored bouillon. Cover with a lid, and again bring back to boil.
Turn down the heat and cook for 15 minutes. Open the pressure cooker the same way you did previously. Placed the pot back on the stove( without the lid), add the cut meat to the carrots and bring to boil.
In a small shallow frying pan melt 6 tablespoons of margarine or butter and add 4 tablespoons of flour. Mix the flour into the melted butter and constantly stir. The rouge will change color. Take the frying pan off the burner once it turns darker pink.
Pour the rouge into the boiling stew and immediately stir. Cook for five more minutes.
To finish the taste you may want to add 2 tablespoons of sugar and freshly chopped parsley.
This stew is served with dinner rolls called, “Mětinky”
In a medium bowl beat eggs, water and salt. Start adding the flour. Empty the bowl on a clean flat surface and knead all the flower into the dough.
The dough will be smooth but hard.
Divide the dough in two and roll each piece on a floured surface into very thin round shape.
Preheat the oven to 170 °F. Turn off the oven and place the dough on a baking rack in the oven to dry for 15 minutes. The flat piece will be stiff once ready.
Remove the piece on a cutting board and slice the dough along the side of the impressions that were created from the baking rack. Stack the pieces on top of each other and cut with a sharp knife thin noodles. These noodles can be used right away or let them dry on a baking sheet for day or two and store it in a Ziplock bag for later use
In a large cooking pan preheat the oil and sauté onion.
Add minced garlic.
Stir in carrots, potatoes, celery, and corn. Stir and cook for five minutes.
Add water, salt, beef bouillon, and marjoram. Bring to boil and add the mushrooms. Let cook on medium high for 30 minutes.
With a tool for mashing potatoes press few times in the pot to mash any large pieces of potatoes.
Now we are ready to thicken the soup. In a small frying pan, melt 4Tbs of butter and stir in 3 tablespoons of flour. Mix the flour and butter well. The rouge will change color as it cooks. Take off the stove when the color is light brown immediately pour the rouge into the boiling soup. Mix well and let cook for another five minutes.
This soup is best served with something sweet like Vdolky or Palačinky.
Boil potatoes with their skin on for 35- 40 minutes.
Drain water.
When cool, peal and dice them, and put them in a large bowl.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and mix well.
Peal and dice eggs, chop onion, dice bologna salami and pickle and add everything to the potatoes. Mix well.
Add miracle whip and stir with a wooden spoon.
In a cup mix dressing by combining water, sugar vinegar and salt. Stir till all dissolved and add to the potatoes salad. Stir everything together and let rest in the fridge before serving.
In one bowl beat 4 eggs with half a teaspoon of salt and two tablespoons of milk.
Into the third bowl pour plain breadcrumbs.
Place the dishes in this order next to each other.
Prepare the meat. Řízek is usually made from pork, chicken, or fish. If you are using pork or chicken, tenderize the meat with a meat mallet to an even thickness.
Salt each piece from both sides and place on a plate.
Take the first piece of meat, coat it with the flour from both sides. With the help of fork dip the meat in the egg mixture, let drip off the exes egg, and coat in the breadcrumbs.
After you coat all the pieces, preheat oil ( 1/4 inch high) in a frying pan. Turn the heat to medium and fry the meat from both sides till golden brown.
