ruth
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Post by ruth on Sept 30, 2006 1:16:29 GMT -7
Hi, I wonder if someone out there can help me. I have a Polish guy coming over from Poland tomorrow to work and live in with us. As he will be leaving his home and family to come here, I thought it would be a nice idea to cook some traditional polish food, to hopefully help him to settle in.
Any suggestions and recipes would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 30, 2006 13:56:24 GMT -7
Ruth, Traditional Polish food to me is borscht, pirogi, golumbki, Polish Sausage and kapusta. Yet when I went to visit my aunt in Poland for the first time I had non of these foods. She made everything from scratch and she was an excellent cook. Some of the things I remember are tomato soup with rice, always potatoes cooked with breaded pork chops or fried chicken. At my cousins she made this vegetable salad that is popular there. I am sure there is much more but this is all I remember at the moment. When we stopped to visit at my other aunts she would make what are called kanapki's or little sandwiches. (finger food) My cousin Krysia and Basia would make a excellent plum coffee cake that always seemed to have been just baked fresh out of the oven. There is a great cookbook I got here as a gift that has many recipes called the Polish Heritage Cookery my Strybel. Hope this is a start for you.
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nancy
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Post by nancy on Sept 30, 2006 14:01:55 GMT -7
Hi Ruth, I am glad that you joined the forum to ask your question. If you also look around this food part of the forum, you will see some discussion of how to make (and spell) borscht/barscz, and some other Polish goodies. And there are some recipes on our website culture.polishsite.us/smfood.htmlIt is great that you want to make your new employee feel at home when he arrives. Nancy |
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 30, 2006 14:02:02 GMT -7
PS...a good rye bread and Polish beer will make him smile  |
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piwo
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Post by piwo on Sept 30, 2006 15:45:11 GMT -7
make fried pork kutlets, chicken kutlets.. have two types of of GOOD bread, like a deli rye and a french, couple types of cheeses (white and yellow, maybe some Brie), turkey lunch meat slices and ham slices, fresh cut tomato's on a plate with coarse cut onions, sprinkled with salt and pepper...make a simple Kapusta (cabbage) salad (finely cut us some fresh cabbage, add a can of corn, chop some tomato's up and cucumber, lightly salt and pepper).. we make a "quick and dirty" bigos (takes only a few minutes instead of hours), go to Costco and buy their pirogi (they have them in the frozen food section) if you don't have a Polish market around, and if you can find some instant borscht (czerwony barszcz) that would be nice... all these add to the lists already given to you by others.
Some simple things we ate every day in Poland: the fresh tomato's, the breads, cheeses, lunch meats, cabbage salad... When I think of Poland, these are the things I think about all the time: simple, yet always there.
good luck... it will be fun!
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Post by jimpres on Sept 30, 2006 17:20:21 GMT -7
Ruth,
Welcome. try this list for recipes mniam@yahoogroups.com
Robert Strybel is on it and has a large book on Polish cooking.
Just ask and you will get a response.
Jim
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Post by Jaga on Sept 30, 2006 19:44:28 GMT -7
Hi, I wonder if someone out there can help me. I have a Polish guy coming over from Poland tomorrow to work and live in with us. As he will be leaving his home and family to come here, I thought it would be a nice idea to cook some traditional polish food, to hopefully help him to settle in. Any suggestions and recipes would be greatly appreciated. Hello Ruth, welcome to the forum. I guess, you do not need to start by trying to cook something extremely traditional like borscht because... it would not taste to this guy the way his mother of grandmother does. Besides, this would be a huge stress for you. You may try to ask him what he likes, he may miss Polish bread or Polish bagels - you may try to buy something which sells here is a fresh French bread - it would remind him Poland. Or maybe the fresch cranchy bagels. You can take him to the grocery for him to see what he would like. He may also enjoy your favorite food. He would like to try some American cuisine as well. He may like also hot tea. |
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zooba
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Post by zooba on Oct 2, 2006 3:59:35 GMT -7
Oh, yes, Jaga, hot black tea without milk is what I miss most abroad. OK, apart from sausages and bread.
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piwo
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Post by piwo on Oct 2, 2006 9:34:20 GMT -7
PS: I can mail you some packets of instant Czerwony Barszcz if you can't find it. There's lots of other instant soups as well from our little Polish Sklep in STL....
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