My Polish/Slovakian side is makin some of grandmas recipes. Her actual recipes. As an AF brat you miss out on alot. She made me some of her recipes when I went to visit as a child. : )
Pure Slovak here. Good old halupki. A Polish friend said they make it with mushroom soup in the sauce and that's how I make it now. Always make it on Christmas Eve. My mother made mushroom soup with sauerkraut and bilbolki (I don't know how to spell it) it's a round bread. https://soupnbread.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/slovak-mushroom-sauerkraut-soup/
Slovak Mushroom-Sauerkraut Soup | Soup and Bread
From Mike Sula/Chicago Reader [Ed: Mike adapted this recipe from one provided by his father's cleaning lady, Barb Sambroak, who in turn got it from her sisters. It is a real soup of extremes: both very shroomy and very sour. Mike used dried shiitake mushrooms, but you can experiment with variet..
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I also LOOOOOOOVE sauerkraut. : )
Me too! I had a professor who healed himself from things that happened in the military. His digestion was all messed up. He started eating foods that his ancestors ate and healed his gut.
Just so very tasty also. And yep super good for us. : )
