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Post by gjm5025 on Jun 28, 2007 17:30:01 GMT -7
Polish Style Spaghetti
This question was prompted by Jaga's post on Polish Lasagna.
About 45 years ago, one of my college friends visited our home and my mother served spaghetti. She made things easy for us by mixing the sauce, spaghetti, and meat all together and serving it from one serving dish. My friend, used to having the spaghetti noodles and sauce separate, asked, "What kind of spaghetti is this?" To which my father responded, "Polish Style Spaghetti."
Jumping ahead to last year, our Sister Cities committee was planning its annual fundraiser to assist the Children's Hospital in Lomianki, near Warsaw, and I suggested that we have a Polish Style Spaghetti Dinner. The idea didn't go over too well because we didn't know if there was such a thing.
Can anyone out there help? If we have a Polish Style Spaghetti Dinner, what would we serve?
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Post by rdywenur on Jun 29, 2007 6:00:45 GMT -7
GJM.....I would not go there. I guess I am a purist when it comes to Italian food since I was raised in a town that at the time was about 90% Italian. Why not just stick to the traditonal one and I'm sure it will be more of a success. Spaghetti or baked ziti maybe.
Was your friend Italian? Most Italians will put sauce in the bottom of the serving bowl and then add the pasta and toss. Extra sauce is served on the side and so is the meatballs, and other meats used to make the sauce (pork, sausage, sometimes chicken )
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Post by Jaga on Jun 29, 2007 13:34:31 GMT -7
gjm, welcome back to the forum! I am not sure that I understand your question correctly. Did you see, we have the article and also a picture of Polish spaghetti: culture.polishsite.us/articles/art402.htmlPolish Cabbage Lasagne (£azanki) is this what you had in mind? |
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Post by gjm5025 on Jun 29, 2007 17:02:40 GMT -7
Jaga,
No, but it looks good to me. I saw your entry on Polish Lasagna and it made me wonder if there was such a thing as Polish Spaghetti. It's beginning to look like there is not. Our organization is Polish, but we usually serve Italian spaghetti for our fundraiser dinner because it is inexpensive and easy to make. Maybe we could try something like your Polish Lasagna with a kielbasa in place of the Italian meatball.
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Post by gjm5025 on Jun 29, 2007 17:07:41 GMT -7
Reywenur -- You, and my friends, are probably right. We should either stick with the Italian spaghetti or change completely to a Polish dish. Your comment of putting some sauce in serving bowl and then tossing the spaghetti sounds similar to what Mom did -- maybe she was not so far off after all. My friend was not Italian. Thanks for the comment.
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Post by kaima on Jun 29, 2007 18:05:40 GMT -7
GJM.....I would not go there. I guess I am a purist when it comes to Italian food since I was raised in a town that at the time was about 90% Italian. aha .. Rdy, what was typical Italian 300 years ago when everyone knew tomatoes were poisnous, and Italians did not dare eat them? Of course, my point is that all cultures are living things and grow and change with time. I suppose it is true that spaghetti was brought to Italy by Marco polo from China. It is significant that it is easily believable. I mix my sause with the spaghetti before I serve it, that way i do not end up with surplus on either end! Now Polish spaghetti comes about any time a Pole makes spaghetti - so I contend. Kai the Survival Cook |
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Post by rdywenur on Jun 29, 2007 19:33:13 GMT -7
Kai .....anda next a think you gonna be telling me is thata you use Moose to make a da meatballs ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Jaga on Jun 29, 2007 22:06:40 GMT -7
Jaga, No, but it looks good to me. I saw your entry on Polish Lasagna and it made me wonder if there was such a thing as Polish Spaghetti. It's beginning to look like there is not. Our organization is Polish, but we usually serve Italian spaghetti for our fundraiser dinner because it is inexpensive and easy to make. Maybe we could try something like your Polish Lasagna with a kielbasa in place of the Italian meatball. I do not think there is Polish spaghetti. My mother used to do pasta at home but this did not look like spaghetting, it was broader, more like pasta which is used for lazagna, although not that broad. The home-made pasta was usually served with bullion or another soup. The noodles which we were buying in the stores were of different kinds. But one main feature they differed - there were so called 4-eggs noodles (makaron czterojajeczny) and 2-eggs noodles (makaron dwujajeczny). We usually were bying the 4-eggs noodles since they were made with more eggs, although they were more expensive. |
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Post by Pawian on Jun 30, 2007 13:38:07 GMT -7
I haven`t heard of Polish spaghetti either. There is spaghetti pasta available in shops, it always was, so there was no problem in preparing it even long time ago. But Polish style? Rather not, at least not in Poland.
As for Polish Lasagne, it is a popular dish which unfortunately I consider disgusting. I like pasta in it, I like sausage too, but I hate these soft jelly-like pieces of half-fried or boiled onion. Yuuukkk!!! Whenever I am served the dish, I carefully decorate the edge of my plate with them in order to return them untouched.
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Post by Mary on Oct 6, 2007 17:49:56 GMT -7
Not exactly Polish style spaghetti.....BUT,
Every year at Christmas I put on a buffet for the family. One of the favorites is my Kielbasa and sauce. I just cut up the kielbasa diagonally cut 2 slits in each, boil in water for about an hour, (this makes it more tender and boils out the grease) and then cook for hours in a crock pot with spaghetti sauce. Sometimes I add green peppers and onions, and once I also added meatballs. The kielbasa give the dish, any variation, a wonderful flavor!
Mary (generation3)
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Post by jeanne on Oct 7, 2007 4:17:16 GMT -7
Polish Style Spaghetti This question was prompted by Jaga's post on Polish Lasagna. About 45 years ago, one of my college friends visited our home and my mother served spaghetti. She made things easy for us by mixing the sauce, spaghetti, and meat all together and serving it from one serving dish. My friend, used to having the spaghetti noodles and sauce separate, asked, "What kind of spaghetti is this?" To which my father responded, "Polish Style Spaghetti." Jumping ahead to last year, our Sister Cities committee was planning its annual fundraiser to assist the Children's Hospital in Lomianki, near Warsaw, and I suggested that we have a Polish Style Spaghetti Dinner. The idea didn't go over too well because we didn't know if there was such a thing. Can anyone out there help? If we have a Polish Style Spaghetti Dinner, what would we serve? Sounds to me like your father was making a joke. Spaghetti served in the home of Polish descent people would naturally be "Polish Style Spaghetti." He was probably being facetious! My father used to say the same thing to describe anything he might be doing which we children questioned. In my family we still call newspapers wrapped around items in a bag to keep them cold a "Polish refrigerator" because my father used to do that and told us that was what it was! Jeanne |
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Mar 28, 2022 10:58:28 GMT -7
Here is an eye opener video about what you think is your spaghetti sauce.
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