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Recipes from the Past: Slovenian scrambled palačinke!

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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Genealogy research in Slovenia 2020

In the past, the ONLY way to do genealogical researching in Slovenia and find your family, was to go there and visit the TWO archdioceses. One in Ljubljana, the capital, on the west side of the country and one in Maribor on the east side of the country. My husband has been so generous and…

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Recipes from the past:  Palačinke

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…

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