Bean poles and pole beans

Beans have considerable significance in the cuisine of Zakarpattia.  One of my favorite dishes is terta fasol’ (mashed beans), made from dried kidney beans boiled and smashed with oil and large amounts of fresh chopped garlic , served as a spread with fresh bread.  The dish seems faintly out of place, more akin to Georgian […]

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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 4th, 2012 at 10:32 pm and is filed under Food, Language and culture, Ukrainian culture, Zakarpattja.

Tokano z bryndzju

  At a recent family gathering my relatives clamored for a traditional dish made from cornmeal, of which my father is the acknowledged master:  fried cornmeal mush.  Mush has a long tradition in American regional cooking, as well as in the cuisine of immigrants.  While my father’s family eats mush in a Yankee kind of […]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 11:25 pm and is filed under Food, Language and culture, Ukrainian culture, Zakarpattja.