Обо мне
I'm married with three children, and as most families, we live very busy lives. But we manage to eat together most evenings a week, and the highlight of my week is sitting down with the extended family to enjoy a meal and to discuss the events of the week.
Кулинарное влияние
My Slovak grandmother, Pauline, is my biggest influence. She brought great recipes over to Canada nearly 75 years ago from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and I grew up with the food of that era.
Recently I traveled back to Vojvodina to the Slovak village where she is from, and found the same ingredients and recipes were still being used.
I am translating her 80 year old cookbook from Slovak into English, and blogging about it. When she died recently, I inherited the book, and was curious about its contents. It was given to her by her best friend on her 16th birthday in 1929, and was full of handwritten recipes. As I translated them, I discovered they were nearly all cake recipes, many from a cafe in Budapest from the 1800's.