• pickersplock said on Sep 10, 2008....

  I'll be back.

• Lucytorial said on Sep 10, 2008....

  Flagging, back to give recipe!

• Lucytorial said on Sep 10, 2008....

  Okay here we go Kruu

  1 onion

  1 bell pepper

  can of tomatos

  bay leaves, hungarian paprika, black pepper, carraway seeds, garlic.

  Ovaries! (eweeee)

  Take onion, garlic and bell pepper dice and lightly saute, add paprika, pepper, and carraway seeds, sweat, then add the diced ovaries.  Once opaque (ewe) add the tomatos bay leaves and salt (to taste) cook for 1/2 hr (to taste - ovaries) serve on a bed of egg noodles.

  This is so difficult to digest, ovaries I mean.  How gross!

• beyondtheveil said on Sep 11, 2008....

  Goulash with Ovaries
  
  Ingredients:
  
  2 lbs pork, cubed
  1 chopped onion
  2 lbs stewed tomatoes (ovaries-all fruit & many veggies are ovaries)
  2 cans tomato soup
  2 cans chicken broth
  1 tsp paprika
  2 minced garlic cloves
  pinch of ground oregano
  pinch of ground sage
  1- 8oz can diced green chilies
  1 tsp salt
  1tsp black pepper
  1/2 tsp red chili pepper
  4or5 medium red potatoes
  
  In large stock pot, brown pork in oil.
  add some water and diced onion, simmer 10 min.
  add tomatoes, broth, and soup and simmer 10 min.
  add spices and simmer while cubing potatoes.
  add potatoes and simmer 40 min.
  
  add water throughout cooking process if needed.
  
  Serve to royalty in fine China bowls/sterling silver spoons - then run....
  
  
  
  

• pickersplock said on Sep 12, 2008....

  Two ovaries
  One pair of galoshes
  1 food processer

• kruuyai said on Sep 12, 2008....

  Thank you... thank you all for your contributions.  The word "ovary" is a declension of the Czech noun "ovar" which means "boiled pork," so the grand prize goes to beyondtheveil for including pork in his recipe.  Honorable mention goes to  pickers  and Lucy for their efforts and good humor.
  
  Just a note for all you word lovers... this was an example of what is known as a "false cognate"...  a word in one language that is similar or identical to a word in another language, leading you to believe that the two words have the same meaning, when, in fact, they do not.  Another terms for these word pairs is "false friends."
  
  Here are some other fun examples of false friends:
  
  The Spanish word, embarazado is often used by male gringos to express their embarrassment over some social faux pas.  This inevitably leads to another social faux pas, because what they are really saying is not, "I'm embarrassed," but "I'm pregnant!"
  
  In Czech, the word čerstve means "fresh," and you often see signs in store windows advertising fresh chicken meat  (Čerstve Kuře), fresh bread, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc.  However, when my Polish friends came to visit, they  remarked that the same word in Polish means "rotten," "spoiled" or "stale," so you can imagine how appealing Czech food seemed to them.
  
  The Polish word szuchać means "to look for." You can imagine that this word is used fairly often in regular day-to-day communication... especially when you go into a store and have to ask for something... I always want to say, "I'm looking for black buttons," or some such thing.   What does this word mean in Czech?  It means, "to f**k."  Imagine walking into a store and saying, "I f**k black buttons," or "I f**k fresh chicken meat."  Sinbad is fond of telling me about a Polish movie involving dwarves and some dwarf who wasn't doing his job properly.  Mrs. Claus was heard to comment, "We need to f**k a new dwarf."

• queenparanoia said on Sep 13, 2008....

  lol...;-)

  hehehhe i thought it was a real ovary... anyway it does not surprise me at all... here in the philippines we eat a dish made of pig's blood... sounds disgusting but it's yummy... a soup made of cow's balls (it's good for hangovers.) and a an egg where the chick is almost hatched... hehhehe i'll post about this on share your culture series soon... ;-)

• kruuyai said on Sep 13, 2008....

  queenie:  Wow.... your cows have balls over there?   They must be all the rage (as in raging bull)... lol  (They eat bull's balls in the States, too... they call them Prairie Oysters or Rocky Mountain Oysters... depending on where you're eating them).

• queenparanoia said on Sep 13, 2008....

  lol... whahahhahahha i can't wait to blog about this!!! maybe later... still have some stuff to read and do... ;-)

• beyondtheveil said on Sep 13, 2008....

  kruu- OK, I'll bite. Did anyone ever tell you what happens when a Pole goes into a Czech store and says to an employee, "I f**k young turkeys?"
  
  This is similar to the time GM introduced the Nova into Mexico. "no va" in Spanish is the same as "won't go".
  

• kruuyai said on Sep 13, 2008....

  beyond:  No... what happens? 
  
  Yeah, I've heard that No Va story many times.  :)
  
  queenie:  Can't wait to read it.
  

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