Slovenia sits between Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia and the food is all four of them on one plate, cooked in a farmhouse. Children do well here.
Struklji are the dish to look for. Rolled dumplings, boiled or baked, filled with cottage cheese, or walnuts, or tarragon, served as a side to a stew or as a sweet on their own. Every region does its own. The sweet ones with cottage cheese and a spoon of sugar are a child’s dinner.
Kranjska klobasa, the Carniolan sausage, is the national sausage, protected by law, served with mustard, horseradish and bread. The kids will eat it. Cevapi, the little grilled beef sausages from the Balkans, come with flatbread and raw onion and are on every menu too.
Soup, cake and honey
Jota is the bean, sauerkraut and potato stew from the coast. Goulash in the north is the Hungarian kind. Mushroom soup in a bread bowl at a mountain hut on a cold day is the meal that beats all the others.
Bled cream cake is the famous cake. Prekmurska gibanica is the other one, a layered pastry with poppy seeds, walnuts, apples and cottage cheese, from the far east of the country, and it is better. Potica is the rolled nut bread at every holiday.
Slovenia is a beekeeping country. Honey at every market, a beekeeping museum, painted beehive fronts in the villages. Buy a jar for home and let the kids taste the chestnut one. Then a glass of Cockta, the local cola made with herbs and rosehip, which every Slovenian child drinks and yours will have an opinion on.
Planning Slovenia with kids? Start with the full Slovenia family travel guide, or send me the ages and the dates and I will come back with what is really available.
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