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  • It's basically a Hungarian food specialty (they really call it "palacsinta" and not blintzes, by the way!) and I am sure you could find many recipes for those in a Hungarian cookbook (though I can't recommend any specific one myself).

    Blintzes! Ayala Sender 2007

  • At the beach, Hungarians line up for chocolate- and jam-filled crèpes, or palacsinta.

    The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest András Szántó 2011

  • So far we have his grandmothers palacsinta, cucumber salad, and the sweet noodles dish.

    Noodle IMBB#22 (Sweet noodles and 4 toppings) 2006

  • He recommended palacsinta for dessert, essentially crepes with cottage cheese and lots of whipped cream, dusted with sugar and flavored with vanilla.

    The Magyar Venus Hamilton, Lyn 2004

  • For my family, we always had a palacsinta dinner - first palacsinta filled with wonderfully garlicky creamed spinach (yumm!! even as a kid!!), and the dessert (a rare thing for most Hungarian households on a day to day basis!) was palacsinta filled with cottage cheese, sweetened, with lemon peel and raisins.

    BigOven.com - Recipe Raves 2010

  • Then, when you have a simple soup and you want some noodles fast, take out your rolled up palacsinta, and cut off little slices from the roll.

    BigOven.com - Recipe Raves 2010

  • I, like almost always, ordered terribly and chose the dill/cottage cheese palacsinta, which neither of us were able to eat.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Although some would call them French crepes, in our house, they were Hungarian palacsinta.

    Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2010

  • You'll find palacsinta (pah-lah-SHEEN-tuh), a thin pancake, in Hungarian restaurants stacked and filled with chopped ham, lobster, veal, mushrooms and other vegetables.

    Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS Inc. GateHouse Media 2010

  • Miranda's take on a Hungarian palacsinta, typically a gut-busting slab of potato pancake folded over a ladleful of goulash and topped with gobbets of sour cream, uses a coarsely shredded Swedish-style pancake in place of the denser Polish variety and is topped off with demi-glace, goat cheese creme fraiche, and crispy onions.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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