How is it, when two sisters marry two brothers, and raise each of their families with the SAME Slovenian recipe, that each family calls it by different names? palačinke and maletta! Could maletta be scrambled palačinke or smorn? Lillian and Violet, my grandmother, are two middle sisters, who grew up in a Slovenian home, in…
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Is there such a thing as oatmeal from scratch? Honestly, growing up I just thought oatmeal grew in the perfectly shaped flakes that showed up in a box of Quaker Old-Fashioned Oatmeal. However, Quaker Mill company wasn’t created until 1877 and the process for rolling oats wasn’t developed until the 1900s. So…the oatmeal your and…
Recipes from the past: Palačinke Aren’t the best foods the ones your mom or grandma made while you grew up? They were made with natural ingredients. The kind you tended to always have on hand. Several summers ago, my husband, for our 25th anniversary took me back to the land of my ancestors. Slovenia!! Guess…
