Home made Polish Chocolate Bar – Blok Czekoladowy, was a way for a treat in hard times of communistic PRL. Anyway it is really tasty and worth trying, I assure you that not only kids will like it:) You don’t bake it, it’s easy and quick to prepare. In Summer try also Polish Plum Yeast
Chłodnik Litewski Lithuanian Cold Borsch is my soup number one in Summer. When there is hot outside, you will love cold cooling soup made of beets and beet’s leaves, buttermilk and Spring greens: dill, spring onions and cucumber. If you like Cold Borsch, check my favorite Summer dish: Polish Plum Potato Dumplings – Knedle ze
If you are looking for healthier dessert, try this recipe for Oatmeal Cookies. It’s easy, quick to make and delicious. Let’s admit – it’s not a dietetic dish, it has an amount of butter and quite a lot of sugar. Be aware;) For more Polish desserts check: http://cookinpolish.com/category/recipes/desserts/.
Ogórki Małosolne This is a classic of Polish seasonal cuisine:) Fresh and healthy Polish 2-Day Dill Pickles are easy to prepare and delicious. Once you try them – you’ll love them. Małosolne often accompany vodka and herring with onion on old style meetings:) During PRL you were not supposed to buy only vodka in restaurants,
In spring I use spring fruits. Rhubarb is one of them. It gives the cake moisture and a little bit of sourness. Try Polish recipe for Rhubarb Cake. Perfect for coffee break, you can serve it warm – for even greater impression on your neighbors;) You may like to try other Polish desserts, like: Polish
In May I am preparing syrup from pine shoots. Young Pine Shoots Syrup helps to heal cough and boost immune in autumn. You can stop here or you can take one step further and prepare a pine tincture, and have an immune booze;) In May you may also like to check my Goosefoot Soup.
In spring, when vegetables start to grow, they are the freshest and the most delicious. Cabbage, potatoes, dill, cucumber- it is hard to resist:) This is a great time to try Polish Stewed Young Cabbage. For more cabbage Polish recipes check: http://cookinpolish.com/tag/cabbage/.
White Radish Salad can be a nice everyday portion of raw vegetables on your table. Surówka is in polish cuisine very important part of the dinner- you eat potatoes, meat and – Surówka. It is a salad prepared from raw vegetables, grated or cut, served with various sauces – sour cream, mayonnaise or oil. Try
If you have potatoes left from dinner, you can prepare an easy Polish Potato Salad. It’s filling, it’s delicious, it’s cheap. In 10 minutes you can have a fresh salad for supper or to take for lunch at work. For more Polish salads check: http://cookinpolish.com/tag/salad/. Check also the queen of Polish salads in PRL –
In my family house beets and horseradish – Ćwikła is served during Easter and Christmas, it usually goes with home made cold meats and vegetable salad. Check more beets’ Polish recipes on: http://cookinpolish.com/tag/beets/.
Early spring is a great time for using stinging nettle in the kitchen. Pokrzywianka – Stinging Nettle Soup is healthy and easy to prepare. Remember to get only top parts of the youngest nettles, away from the motorways. For the soup I also use other herbs I find. This time it was young sorrel and
Sałatka Jarzynowa I remember from my childhood that Polish Vegetable Salad – sałatka jarzynowa – was a must for each Easter, Christmas, birthdays and – very popular those times in Poland – name days. In the 80-ties mayonnaise was hard to get in stores, so we used to prepare it at home. It was fun
Twarożek, Gzik First vegetables available in spring- radishes and spring onions are the basis of my favorite Gzik Polish spring cottage cheese. I use both radishes and radish sprouts. Sprouts are rich in minerals and can be easily grown at home. In Poland we use dry write cheese – farmers cheese – Twaróg. It is
Pesto z czosnku niedźwiedziego Bear’s Garlic Pesto is a great Spring fresh dish – healthy and easy to make. This is an early Spring and only now you can get bear’s garlic (also called ramps or wild leek). It grows in forests, but it’s quite hard to find it over there. In Poland in is
Groch z kapustą Phrase “peas and cabbage” in Polish common language is defined as mixing two things which do not match. Peas and cabbage stew is not a mess, try:) Historically in Poland cabbage is one of the most popular vegetables. It is cheap, so it’s available for poor people. Is easy to store during
Children love them. Kopytka Potato Dumplings can be served as a side dish or with a sauce, as a separate meal. Meat sauce, mushroom or vegetable would taste so good. In June try Chanterelle Cream Sauce. Recipe is easy and you use potatoes left from a dinner. This is what our Grandmas have been doing
Ciasto Drożdżowe Polish Yeast Cake is a bit demanding and difficult to me:) Probably it is a case of experience, or in my case – luck of experience:) Anyway, I don’t give up:) Recently I received a recipe for a yeast cake from my friend Victoria. This is her grandma’s recipe and her family use
Polish cucumber salad/Mizeria is one of the most popular and liked side dishes in Poland. The best served with dill or with parsley. I like it this way:) Many people mention adding sugar to Mizeria. Do you eat it this way too? In my family house it was always with salt and white vinegar. You
Baked beetroot cream soup is one of my favorite soups from childhood. Made from baked beets with caramelized onion, naturally sweat – this is what comfort food means to me:)
