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Post by suzanne on Apr 3, 2006 19:03:01 GMT -7
Anyone have any plans for Easter brunch and/or dinner? We haven't made plans yet, but we usually get together with my best friend and her family and the two of us split the cooking, which usually revolves around ham, garlic string beans or asparagus, some kind of potatoes, bread and numerous desserts. So, what's on your menu?
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Post by piwo on Apr 4, 2006 13:03:51 GMT -7
We're not terribly creative: we have the same brunch on Easter as we do on Christmas morning. Egg dish, some potatos, biala kielbasa, babka, american sausages, some friut, chrusciki, and lots of champagne!
If it's not broke, don't try and fix it!
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Post by Jaga on Apr 6, 2006 22:08:44 GMT -7
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Post by piwo on Apr 8, 2006 8:48:29 GMT -7
For those who can't get Jaga's link to open, it's because it does not recognize the "63386.HTML" portion as part of the link. You need to cut and paste it into the browser address bar and it works fine.
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Post by Jaga on Apr 8, 2006 10:29:13 GMT -7
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Post by piwo on Apr 11, 2006 20:22:48 GMT -7
Well, I bought my brown, farm eggs from a local farm, delivered 3 dozen to my mom, and kept one dozen for myself.
Got fresh farm eggs, real lard, that means only one thing... CHRUSCIKI!!! We'll see how this batch turns out. Made the dough tonight, will let it "set up" overnight in the fridge, then fry them on Wednesday....
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Post by nancy on Apr 12, 2006 15:24:23 GMT -7
Got fresh farm eggs, real lard, that means only one thing... CHRUSCIKI!!! We'll see how this batch turns out. Made the dough tonight, will let it "set up" overnight in the fridge, then fry them on Wednesday.... ;D
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Post by zooba on Apr 13, 2006 10:01:46 GMT -7
We are going to have: hard boiled eggs with mayonaise, soft boiled eggs with mayonaise, ham with mayonaise (just me, I'm addicted), ham, roast pork, NO potatoes (it is treated more like late braekfast than early lunch or even dinner, therefore potatoes are out of the question), biala kielbasa and sweets and cakes: lemon babka and cheesecake. To drink: black tea (Polish national hot drink) and coffee.
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Post by nancy on Apr 13, 2006 14:29:52 GMT -7
Zooba, Your whole menu sounds wonderful to me! NO potatoes (it is treated more like late braekfast than early lunch or even dinner, therefore potatoes are out of the question) Where I come from, potatoes are acceptable at any meal ;D how does this differ from regular (pink?) kielbasa?
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Post by zooba on Apr 14, 2006 7:56:51 GMT -7
Nancy, that was a difficult question you asked. At first I thought everybody knows it but me. then I started asking my colleagues and noone knew for sure. the difference is that "biala kielbasa" is made from fresh, unprocessed meat contrary to other kinds of sausages, which are either smoked or corned or even both. Good biala kielbasa is not very fat has has a lot of spices, especially marjoran, absolutely yummy, necessarily eaten with horseradish.
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Post by rdywenur on Apr 14, 2006 11:19:23 GMT -7
Jaga, Just finished talking with my cousin from Poland. I asked him what he will be having for dinner for Easter. I mentioned the horseradish soup and he asked what is this. So is it not eaten or known to all Poles.
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Post by nancy on Apr 14, 2006 16:03:53 GMT -7
Good biala kielbasa is not very fat has has a lot of spices, especially marjoran, absolutely yummy, necessarily eaten with horseradish. Sounds delicious!
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Post by Jaga on Apr 17, 2006 20:13:34 GMT -7
We had very interesting Easter food - some Polish (horseradish soup, redbeets and pigeons (golabki) and also some Iranian foods. We have two students from Iran visiting - very nice and very educated and apparently good cooks. We could not believe (there was more of us) but they brought so much food with them and the food is quite unique! They even gave Easter bunny to Ela in spite the fact that they are not Christians! Besides, they did not want to take anything away - so now we have food for two weeks - if the winter would keep - we did have 6 inches of snow in the morning and it is snowing until now. I am tired of this winter in Idaho this year! Anyways, it is still cold, so we can keep food for longer.
Besides, we have an English tradition - hot-cross buns - brought by other friends
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Post by bescheid on Apr 18, 2006 7:25:51 GMT -7
Oh my, I feel as of a pauper here after seeing the sumptuous meals you guys had.....
We ate simple at my son's home, we are a small family so missing was my daughter and her husband. With us was mother, my self and Anne (wife) grand son Kyle, daughter in law and her two sons.
We had rough boiled potatoes with skins, asparagus,large rolls, butter, ham, and for desert, lemon pie.
Coffee/black tea (I like my heavy black tea)
Charles
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Post by piwo on Apr 18, 2006 20:12:50 GMT -7
Well... my chrusciki were a disappointment. I'm frustrated with the texture, too chewy. My dough is so thin, you could read the newspaper through it, yet this batch was chewy... I came to the conclusion that I didn't add enough flour.. thought I made a batch that had too much, so I overcompensated with too little. They were more like donut consistency.. I'm going to Chicago this weekend, but next weekend I'm having a chrusciki cooking with the master: my mom. We're going to make the dough together, then cook some in Crisco, store bought lard, then fresh lard from a pig farmer in the area! What could be more "babcia like: real farm eggs and fresh Lard"! Let you all know how they turn out. *hoping to send some out too Nancy
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