Adventures in Czech cooking

I dipped into our Czech cookbooks a couple of times last week, with some mixed results. On Tuesday, I was preparing a steak and decided some potato dumplings would go well with it. The dumplings didn't turn out so hot. For one thing, I don't think I boiled the potatoes long enough, so they were still too hard. For another, the recipe called for semolina. I thought Chelsey had shown me where the semolina was, but apparently I was wrong, because what I used turned out to be corn meal. You can see the results of what I made in the picture. That's not what a potato dumpling is supposed to look like.
Sunday night I set out to make a chicken dish. Actually, the recipe in the book is for rabbit, but they don't have rabbit at our local grocery store, so I switched to chicken. In fact, the local grocery store sometimes has a really poor selection of meat in general, and did so this time. So what was supposed to be roast rabbit turned out to be something like stir-fry chicken, as I couldn't find a good chicken to roast. Even the chicken I did get wasn't very good, as it was very fatty and full of tendons and the like. So the end product bore little resemblance to the original recipe.
The bread dumplings I made to go with the chicken were a success, however.
-Jason