Polish Eating Impressions

[Pawian]

I decided to create a seperate thread for pictures of Polish food and eating habits. I thought I would put these pictures into Polish Impressions in another board but that would be a bit messy.


The first to inaugurate the thread is a dish called tartar beefsteak, or tartar in short. The legend says that Tartar warriors used to put a piece of meat under the saddle and after e few hours` horse ride they took it out and ate it raw.

The dish is made from minced beef, with finely chopped onion, pickled cucumber and egg yoke. Optional additions are sardines, green olives or pickled mushrooms. Add a lot of pepper, olive oil, soya sauce. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Serve with bread.

[Pawian]

I like my food spicy. While preparing tartar, I also add ginger, paprika, oregano and everything what I find in the kitchen. The same procedure takes place with other dishes.

[franksdaughter]

;)

Hello to all who recognize who I am.

I read the forum everyday. Having read this post, I feel compelled to answer. Coming from a family of "food freaks", this dish sounds very good. However, with the issues surrounding eating raw beef and the bacteria, beef tartar has lost its popularity.

You will have to forgive my "polish".......if that is what you want to call it, so I will spell the words phonetically.

All my life we have had a traditional Easter left-over meal. It is very good as long as you do not look at what you are eating. It is called "schfinsooonka" which is a mix of left over ham, sausage (fresh and smoked), hard boiled eggs, vinegar and scraped horseradish root.......all mixed and marinated for two days in the fridge and eaten cold. My husband makes me eat it outside ! It neither looks appetizing nor smells good, but it is delicious.

Just had to get one in for Dad. I think this post qualifies.

Judy

[franksdaughter]

"The legend says that Tartar warriors used to put a piece of meat under the saddle and after e few hours` horse ride they took it out and ate it raw. "


You have to be kidding !!!!!!!!!!!

[rdywenur]

My husband makes me eat it outside !

Good thing you live in Florida. The first time I saw steak tartar was in a deli in Germany 1975...not sure if they still sell it anymore as we don't due to selmonella.

By the way how is your dad doing Franksdaughter ? Give him a shout from me. ;D

[leslie]

Pawi
How long did it take to get the horses' hairs out, or did they eat those as well leaving the poor horse with a bald back!

Judy
Good to have Frank's posting by proxy. Give him our regards.

Leslie

[scatts]

Okay, I've got a picture of some Polish food somewhere....hang on.....




You've got your smalec, your ogorki, your countryside home-made cheeses, your Polish breads, your kielbasa.....what more could you want!

[scatts]

Another one, pierogi i grzby:

[scatts]

Tartar. I like it in fact, but will eat never again after picking up a very nasty bacteria called H.pylori from, I'm certain, tartar served by the brother-in-law.

This nasty piece of work led to acute gastritis (very horrid indeed) which needed someone to feed a snake down my throat into my stomach to work out what was causing the problem. (gastroscopy)

Never again, thank you very much!

[franksdaughter]

Rdywenur,
I think you are Chris. Is that correct? Forgive me if I am wrong.

Yes, tatar has been taken off restaurant menus due to the threat involved. No business wants a lawsuit.

I think an ogorki is a pickle. Is it? And I did recognize the word....grzby. I am sure that is a mushroom. What is smalek?

Oh God Scats, I am goiing to kill you for that picture of the perogi. My mouth is watering. My favorites are filled with fried cabbage and onions. Last week I made 72 "gowoomkies". Please, no smart remarks about my Polish writing !

Thank you all for your regards to dad. I will most certainly pass your messages on to him. He asks all the time about his e-mail and your forum.

Both mom and dad are in a nursing home. The chef there is Adam and he is from Poland. Dad gets along with him great. I was talking to Adam yesterday and he asked if there was anything special that he could make my parents. I told him to serve "keeshka". He laughed and said.......SURE....COULD YOU JUST THESE THESE PEOPLE IF I SERVED KEESHKA? He is a very nice guy and talks Polish to dad all the time.

Refards to all.
Judy

[franksdaughter]

OK...retraction...that should have been REGARDS

[rdywenur]

Yes it is me Chris (there is another on here ...Holly or Hollister to confuse you more). Your Polish is fine...better than mine. I won't even attempt to write in Polish unless I get my dictionary out. And you cook Polish too...I don't. (not since it took me all day to make just 12 pierogi..but they did come out great for the first time) As for smalec...well you'll just have to ask Leslie as that is his favorite and so he can give you his expertise on that dish.......LOL.

Funny but I just found one of the CD's your dad sent me (radio hits) and have been playing it the past couple of days repeatedly and then you show up in the forum. ;D. (I call that serendipity) That is great that he has a Polish chef that he can talk to and pehaps exchange some Polish stories between them. I'm sure it makes his stay there more enjoyable. Maybe I should try my hand at some golumbki's as my mom no longer does any Polish cooking. It is too hard for her but we did mangage to squeeze some lessons out so we could copy them down.


Oh and by the way if you already post and need to correct something you can easily do it by clicking on modify/edit in your post. It will bring you back to your post and you can do it at anytime even if you spot an error 2 days later.

[rdywenur]

Must have some of these too. (More mouth watering food) SMACNEGO!!!!!!

[franksdaughter]

Chris,
Thanks so much for the tip. I will try and remember that.(edit/correction)

So Leslie, what is smalek? It sounds familiar but I cannot place it.

Yes, I cook a lot of polish food....as I said 72 gowoomkies. And I will not even go into the 12 pounds of sour beef and dumplings I made. Yes, I know this is a German dish. Dad ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week ! Dad made the best breads and my mother makes the best white borscht with sausage and string beans.

So nice to hear about your listening to the cd's. That will make dad very happy.

Thank you for remembering.
JUDY

[kaima]

franksdaughter said:

"The legend says that Tartar warriors used to put a piece of meat under the saddle and after e few hours` horse ride they took it out and ate it raw. "


You have to be kidding !!!!!!!!!!!

According to "Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay", written by a US Cavalry soldier in the 1800's, they used to place their hard tack bread under their arm pits for an hour to soften it before stopping for lunch.

Now I loved telling Germans I have eaten raw caribou with Eskimo, but refuse to eat raw hamburger (tatar) with Germans! It seemed to hurt their cultural pride.

Kai the Iconoclast