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Post by Jaga on Nov 10, 2006 16:28:51 GMT -7
I know that we are not even in the Christmas season but...the friend of mine wants to organize the Polish Easter Party here in Idaho Falls for about 60 people.... and we need more ideas about what to prepare. We will share recipes with other people and they will be doing different dishes.
In my house we are doing horseradish soup, potato salad with ham, eggs (filled eggs called faszerowane jajka) and cwikla (red beets + horseradish salad) + mazurek or babka.
At Hanka's Table - Hanka has a photograph of the Easter table and they are eating duck with apples, mushroom soup, roast beef, eggs, red cubbage salad etc
what else would you recommend us to try?
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Post by jimpres on Nov 11, 2006 10:23:42 GMT -7
You must have all the items taken to the church for blessing on Saturday as well.
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 11, 2006 15:47:03 GMT -7
Jaga. We don't do a traditional Polish Easter dinner. We usually have a ham, kapusta with polish sausage, babka, horseradish with beets and then any vegetables to complete the dinner. Long ago we took the kielbasa, colored eggs, babka, some salt and pepper to be blessed for breakfast.
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Post by nancy on Nov 11, 2006 21:08:22 GMT -7
butter in the shape of a lamb, and/or a cake in the shape of a lamb - don't forget the coconut stuck in the frosting (yum!)
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Post by scatts on Nov 12, 2006 0:53:28 GMT -7
Here's babcia and Zosia taking the baskets into church last easter: Now the priest doing his thing: and a more 'artistic' shot from 2005:
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Post by bujno on Nov 12, 2006 5:05:58 GMT -7
Here's babcia and Zosia taking the baskets into church last easter And into what church! Nawiedzenia NMP - one of the oldest andthe most beautiful in Warsaw!
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Post by scatts on Nov 12, 2006 10:52:36 GMT -7
Well spotted! Yes, that's our local/family church, the one we were married in, where Zosia was baptised and where we have just this moment returned from after a short walk following Marta casting her votes.
28 people at the service. 26 of them women with average age of 60, at a guess.
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 12, 2006 13:37:44 GMT -7
Scatts, What do you think is this facination with red hair in Poland. My cousin also had her hair dyed bright red (she is a blond currently) when I came to visit in Poland. When I got off the plane in Warsaw I was amazed that almost all women had their hair red no matter what the age. Here in the US only younger crowd do it red or go Gothic and do it jet black.
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Post by scatts on Nov 12, 2006 13:39:46 GMT -7
Yeah, I know! It's a mess. It is actually getting better, there used to be far more red tints around when I was first here. The MIL seems stuck on this hairdo though and she's been that way for quite a while now.
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Post by Jaga on Nov 12, 2006 16:10:20 GMT -7
Scatts, Bujno,
beautiful pictures! I remember in the past Pawian also sent wonderful pictures of the blessed basket!!!
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Post by gardenmoma on Nov 12, 2006 23:07:48 GMT -7
Scatts, What a neat little girl you have...! And, I think your mil is also neat...she has a certain sense of style for a babcia I've noticed a lot of women in Poland, all ages, with hennaed hair...it looks more orange than bright red. The "henna" is a "natural dye" that comes from an evergreen-type plant. Although, I suppose most "henna" is also synthetic these days Both my daughters, in theirs 30s, like their hair with deep red highlights, but this babcia sticks to blonde which does get reddish in the sun! GM
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Post by gardenmoma on Nov 12, 2006 23:16:19 GMT -7
Jaga, My "traditional" Polish Easter food is: a ham, kielbasa with sauerkraut (apples, onions and caraway included), scalloped potatoes, sweet potato casserole of some sort, asparagus, rye bread and babka, and the dyed hardboiled eggs; maybe a green salad or fruit salad for the nonmeat people. Desert is usually some of the Easter candy. Although I do love the white lamb cake with the fluffy white coconutty frosting, I have the mold, but never have consistently had the time to bake and decorate one. I took a lot of teasing last year when I brought to my son's house, among my other Easter offerings, the little lamb made of butter. They kept teasing me about the "holy lamb!" I don't like the white barsch, so don't make it! My mother and her sisters used to make the white (sour) barsch; my good friend always makes a crown roast of pork (!), with vegggies and potatoes, and the white or sour barsch. I haven't cooked as much in the last few years because we are usually at someone else's place and I just bring stuff, like the "holy lamb!" GM
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 13, 2006 3:30:27 GMT -7
GM and Nancy...I forgot about the Holy Lamb. Here at Wegmans the past few years they have stocked it so must be there are many other Holy Lamb lovers out there besides us. At one time only the local Polish meat market carried it and when they closed we were devistated. I love the littel lamb. GM I bet the moment you stop bringing it the family will "really" miss it.
For dessert I always make a cassatta. This is an Italian tradition but I was raised in a town that was 98% Italian. My ex was half Italian and I missed it once I came back to Rochester. I made it for a dessert one Easter and everyone now expects it from me and look forward to it.
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Post by Jaga on Nov 13, 2006 16:30:10 GMT -7
GM,
thank you for your post! I think that the lamb made of butter is a very cute idea! I do like sour borscht or zur, but I guess, it depends how a person prepares it. Did you ever try it in Poland? In Poland one can buy the fermented rye - an essence to do it. Your family probably could not do so.
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Post by scatts on Nov 14, 2006 1:32:28 GMT -7
I love biały barszcz!
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