Weekly Meal Plan – Eastern European Comfort Food

📅 Full weekly plan

Day	Lunch	Dinner
Monday	Svíčková Svíčková — braised beef sirloin in cream sauce — is the Czech Republic's defining Sunday dish and a centrepiece of Czech culinary identity.	Pasticada Pašticada is Dalmatia's emblematic dish — a beef roll marinated for days in wine vinegar, garlic, and spices, larded with pork fat, carrot, and…
Tuesday	Pierogi Pierogi are one of the oldest preparations in Polish cooking, documented in culinary records from the thirteenth century.	Okroshka Okroshka is the summer cold soup of Russia — a bowl of kefir (or kvass, a fermented bread drink) into which boiled potatoes, eggs, fresh cucumbers,…
Wednesday	Crni Rizot Crni Rižot — black risotto stained with squid ink — is one of the most iconic dishes of the Dalmatian coast.	Khinkali Khinkali are Georgia's national dumplings — large dough pouches filled with minced beef and pork with onion, coriander, and pepper, boiled in water.
Thursday	Zeama Zeama is Moldova's most cherished soup — a clear, golden chicken broth with thin egg noodles and a characteristic sourness from borș, the fermented…	Pljeskavica Pljeskavica is Serbia's national burger — a wide, flat patty of mixed minced meat (beef, pork, lamb) with onion, garlic, and paprika, grilled over high heat on charcoal.
Friday	Goulash Gulyás — the word means 'herdsman' in Hungarian — started as a cattle drover's stew on the Great Plain.	Romanian Grilled Minced Meat Rolls Mici, or mititei, are the soul of any Romanian barbecue — little rolls of minced meat seasoned with garlic and spices, grilled over coals until they take on that fragrant crust.
Saturday	Kotlet schabowy Kotlet schabowy — the Polish schnitzel — is Poland's national pork dish.	Romanian Cabbage Rolls Sarmale are, without exaggeration, the dish that defines a Romanian celebration table.
Sunday	Cevapi Cevapi are the Balkan version of small sausages — skinless minced beef and lamb patties seasoned with garlic and paprika, grilled and served in…	Polenta with Cheese & Sour Cream Mămăligă is the unwritten bread of Romanian cooking — a simple cornmeal porridge that fed the countryside from one end of the country to the other for centuries.