First time eating Polish food

What should I look for?

I am located in the US and are looking to eat a polish dish for the first time.

Any suggestions?

Try some Pierogis :)

Kiełbasa: Polish sausages - white sausages are especially very tasty. They go well with pickled cucumbers (gherkins) in combination with beer or vodka and fresh air. Absolutly delicious man..

Bigos: appetizing, seasoned "hunter" stew made from sauerkraut with chunks of various meats and sausages, extremely traditional - This is heaven to me, real hearty food great fo the cold, even better for the tastebuds!!!

Gotta love it. I eat that all the time during winter.

and best .. when reheated esp on the third day ... :D eat with some good polish bread

Very true.


not a pickle kind of guy....

But...


I can agree with that. But why "or" should be "and"

;-)

Ahhaa, indeed..
;-)

Jeez, you mean there are places in the US, where polish food is still not readily available? :)
Enjoy the experience! Make sure you try some mushroom soup too.

what, no wódka with bigos? how polish are you? ;) :D

I have one question...

I am very open to new things and I love foreign foods and new experiences...

But are any of these going to give me culture shock in my mouth?
I'll still try them regardless.

not pierogi, not kielbasa except you'll give up the plastic wrapped crap for good. bigos is the only possiblity out of the three but if you like sour kraut then you'll be ok. bigos should also have mushrooms in it so if you;re allergic to those find some without them.

ahhh bigos.... mmmm...
*starts drooling over keyboard*

Make sure you have a cast iron stomach, as some of us will go crazy with hot peppers (such as Scottish Bonnets) in our cooking around special times of the year.

Try Golumpki, which is meat and potatoes stuffed into cabbage. It tastes like happiness. So good. Personally, you give me a plate of keiłbasa, some golumpki, and a bottle of Chopin and I'm a pig in slop.

Gołąbki :)

You say gołąbki, I say golumpki (well, not me, but... you know)

froststreet.net/archives/2004/04/you_say_golabki_i_say_golumpki.html

I don't care how you say it, I just care about how I can get it into my mouth.

beef amd rice or barley.. with potatoes it's not polish.

My family always made gołąbki with rice. How does it taste with barley?

i've been craving red beet soup lately MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I like blankies (stuffed cabbages), but with red cabbages.

All that was mentoned above is excellent - you can also try krokiety - filled with cabbage an mushrooms or with meat. Its a pancake filled with the filling, folded and then covered with breadcrumbs and fried - I love them! In fact, I like a lot of the polish food but some I won't try - like flaki, which is a kind of soup (in Uk, we call it tripe or cows stomach), and Glonka (pigs knuckles!)... you get my point, but i've heard that they are good.

pierogi with sour kraut (you have to heat it on o pan under a lid for quite a long time - i don't know the exact word for this, in Polish it is dusić) and dried mushrooms. mmmm delicious. even better when you fry them on some olive oil on a pan:)

I don`t know. Food in Poland is so much better than for example in London, and think, big part of Europe.

Your don't know what is good!
Schabowe, Pierogi with meat - mmmmmmmm delicious

sorry, but my English is weak. Please correct me ;)

No way am I correcting you - you were able to portray your feelings across perfectly!!

stuffed cabbage is da shiznit!! miam :))
I'm also a pretty big fan of tripe...didn't think it would be as good as it is

...so how about: Fasola po bretońsku, łazanki, placki ziemniaczane, racuchy ? Nobody tried them yet ?

I have to say since i have moved to poland, i feel realy good health wise i stopped eating crap from packets .. every thing i eat is fresh...

lol...thats not to say i used to eat off food

I think that you could get really surprised plk. People from different parts of Poland prepare traditional dishes in different ways. For example, it was unthinkable for my family from Lubuskie region that we eat potato pancakes with sugar here in Wielkopolska and I was equally surprised when I found out that my girlfriends family from Silesia eat their chicken soup with potatoes instead of noodles…