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Post by piwo on Sept 1, 2006 6:24:23 GMT -7
Here in the States, it is a 3 day weekend for Labor Day. Usually lots of BB-Q's, but I have none planned this year. I am however going to be doing a little cooking. Round three with the Barszcz Czerwony using my beef bones homemade stock, and my mom's "babka". This will be the first time I've ever attempted this, but I have the master close at hand! Mom had her hip replaced on August 4, and has been recovering at our house. She's doing really well, and is itching to get back to her house but before she does, she wanted us to make bread together. So, this will be the weekend. I'm pretty excited!! The third "culinary" event is more a seasonal ritual: Johnathan apples are ready at local orchards! My wife and I go apple Knockin every year on the first weekend when Johnathan apples are ready, and we usually get about 40lbs or so. We make a few pies, some apple pizza's, TONS of homemade apple sauce, and some just for eating. We also keep some cold, and use them in November in our turkey stuffing. So, what's on the menu folks??
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Post by bujno on Sept 1, 2006 10:49:24 GMT -7
>So, what's on the menu folks??< Hi Piwo! Right now on the menu is piwo. ¯ywiec. Plus 'Lista przebojów". Piwo, please continue the Polish recipes threads. I am learning. I do like to cook although I am not a mater yet. However my clever wife praises very much every little dish I make. She knows how a man's mind (ego) works
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Post by piwo on Sept 1, 2006 11:08:30 GMT -7
>So, what's on the menu folks??< Hi Piwo! Right now on the menu is piwo. ¯ywiec. Plus 'Lista przebojów". Piwo, please continue the Polish recipes threads. I am learning. I do like to cook although I am not a mater yet. However my clever wife praises very much every little dish I make. She knows how a man's mind (ego) works Listening to tunes and having a piwo.... now that's the right idea! Well, I'm certainly no master cook.. but do enjoy doing so. I've been trying to learn my grandmother's recipe's that I enjoyed so much from my mother, so that someone will continue to make them. Some, like the szczaw, my mom always loved to eat, but never made it. And mom HATES beets... so no barszcz recipe from her! Your wife is of course the most dangerous of all creatures: she understands exactly what makes us tick. ;D
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Post by gardenmoma on Sept 1, 2006 21:06:23 GMT -7
How lucky you are to have your Mom close at hand...that's the best way to collect recipes (and memories)! Well...for safety's sake, in case I didn't feel like cooking or weather turned too warm - which it is not supposed to do - I made several quarts of my "multi-bean soup" using a prepared tomato base from Frontier Co-op as well as a few fresh tomatoes,one green pepper (Capsicum) and some fresh corn cut off the cob. Husband has some kielbasa to go with that for sandwiches. I plan to make a roast pork loin with sauerkraut, apples and caraway for husband (per request) on Sunday or Monday...with boiled potatoes - maybe potato pancakes if I am ambitious. I have a new recipe from the King Arthur flour newsletter for a very good-sounding low-fat pumpkin cake which I'd like to try. And, we will also trek out to an orchard, probably Sunday as there is a UMass football game tomorrow which husband wants to listen to on the radio. Peaches are ready as are the mid-season apples, maybe some pears...probably still too early for grapes. And...in between I'll try to keep the kitchen clean ;D I still have a little May wine left, but maybe along the way we can pick up some interesting piwo - wheat would be a good way to officially end the summer season GM
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 2, 2006 4:18:42 GMT -7
GM...although I love anything pumpkin, pie being my favorite, it is still too early for this. It will mean summmer is over. I do have a few zuchinni in the fridge I can make a bread with though.
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Post by gardenmoma on Sept 2, 2006 6:23:46 GMT -7
RDY, I do agree about the season here in the northeast still being a little early for pumpkin - which is also one of my favorites The KA folks, however, like to be about 6 weeks to a month early with their recipes. So, we home folk can make sure we buy or have whatever is needed and then try the recipes. I'm not as ambitious as some of their newsletter / forum regulars...I just bake for family, friends and our church's Thursday night Bingo. We make most of our money on food...especially the baked goods ;D Baking beats sitting on a committee figuring out how to make money, any day of the week. I'll come back with my pumpkin recipes in a couple of weeks...have a couple of ones that receive high marks from family! GM
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Post by piwo on Sept 2, 2006 6:25:21 GMT -7
Geez thanks gardenmama, I need to change my shirt because I just drooled all over it! ;D Eating well at your place this weekend. Wife isn't feeling too well, so last night I grilled some pork steaks. 1st time I've made them all summer. Slacking off I guess.
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Post by bujno on Sept 2, 2006 7:55:45 GMT -7
So, what's on the menu folks?? Ahhaaa! I've prepared zupa ogorkowa today!
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Post by leslie on Sept 2, 2006 8:53:37 GMT -7
Bujno wrote "Ahhaaa! I've prepared zupa ogorkowa today!"
I am so sorry to say this, but YUK! Not quite as bad as smalec, but getting close!! ;D
Leslie
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Post by nancy on Sept 2, 2006 20:14:04 GMT -7
GM...although I love anything pumpkin, pie being my favorite, it is still too early for this. It will mean summmer is over. I too love pumpkin .... even pumpkin ice cream ;D and pumpkin seeds, cake, pie ... Please send recipes, GM, I might even try to prepare them.
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Post by gardenmoma on Sept 2, 2006 22:13:19 GMT -7
Will send recipes... Hate to disappoint all of us who rather have autumn here in the northeast wait several more weeks...but when we were out this afternoon we noticed several roadside stands that already had pumpkins - the small ones - and hay bales out on display. Corn is still being picked so no bundled stalks on display yet. At the place we finally stopped, two small boys had each picked out one small pumpkin. I asked them if they palnned to eat them "No....," they replied hugging them close. "Oh," says I. "Are you going to paint faces on them?" "Yep," said the older of the two... "That's what I'm going to do..." I didn't check the Mom for her reaction! Anyway...we came away with corn (*maize on the cob), peppers (*capsicums), tomatoes and (would you believe) one acorn squash to accompany the roast pork. Husband is really pushing autumn! UMass won their first football game... *See, I can even talk British for the Kitchen! GM
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Post by bujno on Sept 3, 2006 4:32:43 GMT -7
Bujno wrote "Ahhaaa! I've prepared zupa ogorkowa today!" I am so sorry to say this, but YUK! Not quite as bad as smalec, but getting close!! ;D Leslie Oh, I am sorry! I suppose you don't like flaki very much either? Hiw about kwaœnie mleko?
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 3, 2006 5:11:10 GMT -7
Bujno...don't forget maslanka (buttermilk). I don't do any of these but shop for my mom. She never made flaki but on our trip to Poland would always order it.
Nancy me too....last year we had some great pumpin ice cream. I purchased it for our Thanksgiving dinner. They were frozen in small pumpkins. Same can be purchased at Neiman Marcus but we got it through a gourmet cooking class I signed up for and at much less the cost. yummmm!!! Love fall. love the colors, love the food but hate the idea winter comes after.
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Post by bujno on Sept 3, 2006 5:14:30 GMT -7
Oh yes, there's hardly anything better than well-prepared flaki. And there's absolutely nothing worse than ill-prepared...
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Post by leslie on Sept 3, 2006 5:35:15 GMT -7
OK I like well-prepared flaki and also in the best form. You know the Scottish dish 'Haggis' which consists of lights boiled in a sheep's stomach. Again when done well, this I like. It is traditionally eaten once a year on the 'Burns' Night' in honour of Rabbie Burns
I don't think I've come across 'kwaœnie mleko' - what is this dish?
Of all the food of this genre, my all-time favourite is 'black pudding' - Kaszka or Kaszanka.
When I first joined this forum, Nancy and Jaga will tell you how bored I was of the excessive amount of talk about food - now I'm right in the middle of it!!
Leslie
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