I was just talking to my daughter on Skype. She has been in Slovakia on Rotary exchange for the past year. She comes home in a month, I can't wait.
I have been telling her about my cheese escapades. I sent her a link to this forum so she could see my cheeses and she started telling me about what they eat there.
They eat a lot of soft cheeses and the most common, perhaps national dish is BryndzovÉ haluŠky which is a potato and dumplings soup with bacon made with Bryndza. I did a search and it looks like it is basically feta cheese made from ewe's milk. Katrina told me it is not like feta since it is soft and spreadable...ah, but she only knows the store-bought feta, not the very soft, fresh stuff. I'm thinking if I use a lot of cream and follow a feta recipe, I may be able to replicate this cheese to some extent when she comes home. Or I could buy a freshened ewe. She said it comes in plastic bags with a lot of water around it and is salty. Sound like feta to me.
She also said they eat a lot of crusty bread on which they put salty lard. She likes it, but probably the most healthy way to eat bread. I'm going to have to try it. I don't even know if you can buy lard any more...I'll have to check.
Other unique cheeses are:
Parenica is a sheep’s cheese that rolled up like a long ribbon. I found this online:
Oštiepok sounded very interesting to me. She's going to try and bring some home. It's a smoked sheep's milk cheese that is hard. They also put that on bread in slices. I did a search on how it is made and it sounds interesting. No recipes found yet.