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    Nifty Kitchen Tips

    These are some of my quick tips and tricks to make your cooking easier. Learn how to shred potatoes for cooking delicious Bramborak Pancakes. Want to bake Czech Babovka Cake? Find out how to properly grease and flour your bundt pan!
    • Cutting out flower shapes from dough for Linzer cookies.
      Mastering Czech Cukroví: Shortcrust Pastry Cookies for Christmas
    • Showing a dumpling put in the steamer basket without preventing it from sticking.
      How Do You Keep Dumplings From Sticking to the Basket in a Steamer
    • Three packages of Czech flour - hladká, polohrubá and hrubá.
      All-Purpose Flour in the Czech Republic
    • Two green kohlrabies.
      How to Cut Kohlrabi
    • Powdered cloves, crushed by hand using a rolling pin.
      How to Grind Spices by Hand (without Mortar and Pestle)
    • Baked bundt cake removed from a pan.
      How to Tell When My Bundt Cake Is Done
    • Flouring a bundt cake pan.
      The Best Way to Grease and Flour A Bundt Pan for a Perfect Bake
    • Bowl of yeast dough sit in the oven, where a pot of hot water is put on its bottom.
      How to Quickly Make Dough Rise Inside an Oven
    • Finely shredded potatoes in bowl.
      How to shred potatoes
    • Yellow bell pepper sliced into rings.
      How to Cut a Bell Pepper into Rings
    • How to shred apples on hand box grater.
      How to Shred Apples
    • shredding carrot
      How to Shred Carrots

    Hi, I am Petra, a born-and-raised Czech and self-taught cook with 25+ years of experience. I teach you how to cook Czech food wherever you live, even if you did not grow up with it. With clear guidance and a touch of tradition in every recipe, Czech cooking becomes joyful in your own kitchen.

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