Polish Eating Impressions

[Pawian]

rdywenur said:

Pawian ,

My photo is what we call here kebobs/kabobs and usually it is served with a salad and rice on the side.

Your photo is what we know it here as Gyros (Greek Sandwiches) served in a pita bread which looks very much like your photo. The way they are sold here are usually in a mall so it is fast food items that are cooked on a grill right in front of you. (and if you order this in a Greek restaurant (inside dining) it is usually served with pita on the side which you would use to pick up the meat with sort of Mediterrean style eating (with fingers). The mall version we have here (although I have never seen the meat hanging as such and maybe would not be approved by the Health Dept here) is thin slices of beef that is cooked on the grill and as the meat is cooking the chef will be fast chopping it and turning over till cooked. Then thrown into a pita bread, with your toppings, sometimes a yogurt sauce, tomaotes, onions, lettuce and rolled and served.

Yes, they use the same ingredients, they are the same fast food.

However, as far as I observed, kebab is always served in a pita bread and you can take it away, while gyros is served on a plate lunch style.

[rdywenur]

What about America?

I have never seen white borscht served here. I did however remember when I was a kid eating what I called white borscht. then reading about it spoken on the forum I asked my mother how she made it and she does not remember ever making it. (that may have been the only time she ever made it) I only remember it too be sour tasting and I had thought she used the broth from kielbasa to make it. (I was only about 8 or 10 so the memory is being stretched a bit) I do think she had boiled potato in it also but not mashed as your foto shows. Maybe then it was the Zurek she made.

[Pawian]

rdywenur said:

What about America?

I have never seen white borscht served here. I did however remember when I was a kid eating what I called white borscht. then reading about it spoken on the forum I asked my mother how she made it and she does not remember ever making it. (that may have been the only time she ever made it) I only remember it too be sour tasting and I had thought she used the broth from kielbasa to make it. (I was only about 8 or 10 so the memory is being stretched a bit) I do think she had boiled potato in it also but not mashed as your foto shows. Maybe then it was the Zurek she made.

Apart from this flour or sauerkraut liquids you also need some fatty extracts. They can be from boiling sausage which later lands in the soup too.

Potatoes can be whole or mashed, depends on the cook.

[Pawian]

Żurek z kiełbasą


It is also often served with an egg.




Polish recipes:
www.whats4eats.com/4rec_poland.html

White borsch, with toast and eggs. As I said, it is often interchanged with żurek.

[Pawian]

What`s this Polish as old as the hills food?

[Pawian]

What`s going on here?

[wujjohn]

Looks like zupa flocki (spelling) to me.

[Pawian]

wujjohn said:

Looks like zupa flocki (spelling) to me.

Yes, excellent. This is flaki (flaczki) or tripes in English. It is a very controvercial food, hated by half the population and loved by the other. A peppery dish popular with males mostly.

I used to hate it too once, until the day when, at a sports camp as a teenager, after a training I got so hungry that I could eat a whole cow. So I ate her tripes.

When did you last eat flaczki?

PS. It is not the first (and hopefully not the last) time you look through my riddles. Are you a sort of a gourmet, sir? hahahahaha

[rdywenur]

What are your drilling for ...oil (yuk yuk yuk) Actually I think you are about to make a giant scrambled eggs for breakfast.. ;D ;D What is that an ostrich egg...will you coloring a giant pysanky

[wujjohn]

I last had flaki about two months ago, when I visited my Neice who lived in the Polish section of Brooklyn, New York. I can not get flaki like in Poland, they have the best. They use a shredded tripe and that is much better than the cut tripe we have here. The best I have tasted is in a small cafe in Gostynin.

[justjohn]

All right. You had me there. I thought that that was eels. Wiengorze?
(spelling)

I remember eating them but have not seen anyone mention them.

[Pawian]

rdywenur said:

What are your drilling for ...oil (yuk yuk yuk) Actually I think you are about to make a giant scrambled eggs for breakfast.. ;D ;D What is that an ostrich egg...will you coloring a giant pysanky

No, not for breakfast but supper. I got it as a nameday present from my class. One student`s father keeps ostriches for meat, skins and eggs.

Before eating it, we played it like a ball. It is very hard, I had to use the drill to preserve the shell. Today it decorates the kitchen.

[Pawian]

Apart from one occurence of a giant egg in our home, we sometimes buy smaller ones, grouse eggs, I think. They are so amusingly tiny.

[Pawian]

wujjohn said:

I last had flaki about two months ago, when I visited my Neice who lived in the Polish section of Brooklyn, New York. I can not get flaki like in Poland, they have the best. They use a shredded tripe and that is much better than the cut tripe we have here. The best I have tasted is in a small cafe in Gostynin.

Hmm, shredded flaki? I don`t know it in such form. You mean shredded like, e.g., cheese? Tiny, little, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny pieces??

[Pawian]

justjohn said:

All right. You had me there. I thought that that was eels. Wiengorze?
(spelling)

I remember eating them but have not seen anyone mention them.

aaah, hahahahaha, no, not eels.

Soon I will post pictures of some smoked eel, the most expensive fish in Poland, but the most delicious too.