Venetian tripe.
Slovak Sunday bone broth soup.

How to make a good Slovak Sunday bone broth soup

Sunday lunch - or any celebration - is not complete without a bone broth soup.

Dutch student Lisa Verberne flips a lokša.

Recipe for love: Take one Dutch person, add a Slovak

Sharing a kitchen is an intimate experience, says student.

Easter traditions are widely preserved and followed in Bulgaria.
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Bulgarian cuisine: Lamb, roses and red wine

SISTERS Valeria and Isabela Hadjiyska, along with Tsvetelina Gencheva, the director of the Bulgarian elementary and high school in Bratislava, who wore a black blouse richly decorated with Bulgarian folk motifs, were carefully placing hardboiled eggs into bowls with red, blue, yellow and green food colouring. In order to complement the Bulgarian embassy’s efforts to bring Bulgarian cuisine and culture to the Slovak audience, they decorated the eggs using different techniques passed down through families to the young to preserve the spirit of Easter.

Belgian recipes: Pancakes Mikado

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Belgian Ambassador Christian Lepage.
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Belgian ardour for 'liquid bread'

THE BELGIAN passion for beer is neither accidental nor fleeting. A country of 11 million people, spanning 30,000 square kilometres, Belgium has 150 breweries which produce 1,100 varieties of beer, says Christian Lepage, the Belgian ambassador to Slovakia, while preparing his carbonades flamandes, a Flemish beef stew cooked in beer.

Belgian recipes: Cream of watercress soup

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French Ambassador Didier Lopinot and his wife Elisabeth Lopinot selected recipes with history.
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French cuisine: Cooking - an act of pleasure and art

FOR THE FRENCH a meal is much more than just nutrition for the body. Cooking in France has been transformed into a culinary discourse, involving history, philosophy and art.

French recipes: Chicken Marengo

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French recipes: Bourdaloue Tart

Ingredients and preparation.

Irish recipes: Organic Irish leg of lamb

Ingredients: leg of lamb weighing 2.5kg, 1 garlic bulb, 1 bunch rosemary, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 onion cut into quarters, 1 glass red wine (about 150ml), 1.2l beef or lamb stock.

Irish recipes: Irish cream liqueur cheesecake

Ingredients: 300g packet chocolate digestive biscuits (crushed), 125g butter, 50g Toblerone chocolate or plain milk chocolate, 200ml fresh cream, 450g Philadelphia cream cheese, 125g icing sugar, 1 measure of cream liqueur (e.g. Bailey’s Irish Cream).

Irish recipes:Colcannon

Ingredients: 1 small savoy cabbage, 55h Irish butter, 900g-1.3kg potatoes, 250ml full cream milk, 2 scallions (spring onions) – optional.

Irish recipes: Honey glazed carrot batons

Ingredients: 700g carrots, 1/3 (75g) cup Irish honey, 1 tsp salt, chopped parsley.

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