I have a Polish couple coming over for afew days and would like to cook for them.

Hi,

I have a Polish couple coming over for a few days when Lech play Manchester City on the 21st October and would like to cook for them. I have looked on the internet and have seen that Bigos is the national dish so I might do that was just wanting some helpful feedback so it will be a nice surprise for them before they go off to the game.

Any input is welcome and thank you.

Regards,
Gary.

If it were me, I wouldn't do bigos.

It seems that Poles all have their own version, finely honed, and yours mightn't be great in comparison. I'd do something completely different. Maybe something Polish alright but just not bigos.

Thanks for the reply.

What would you recommend? As I don't want to ask them I would like it to be a surprise for them. There are some nice recipes on here that are making my mouth water :).

I understand what you mean about bigos I have seen quite alot of different variations while searching.

Gary.

Don’t you think that cooking British dish would be more appropriate? I myself would appreciate it more than bigos. Do what you feel comfortable with, besides with good company, couple of beers, promising game and good host like yourself it will definitely be a hit, so you have nothing to worry about.

Gazza4354,

Why would you cook them something Polish, what's wrong with english food. Sushi and Thai food is very trendy amongst the 20 to 30 year olds in Poland.

Why does it have to be Polish food? Maybe they would like to try some cuisine from the Country that they'll be visiting.

Maybe you guys/girls are right I think it would be better to cook them an English dish.

I have never tried Polish food so I think it give me an opportunity to try it aswell but I can do that at a later date.

Thank you all very much,
Gary.

I would cook Thai myself - it's easy and there is a good chance that they won't have had it before. Just don't make it too hot - IME Poles are not very accustomed to spicy food.

A Thai Green Curry is probably the new Chicken Tikka Masala anyway (which was in turn the new fish n' chips once upon a time)

Get some gammon steaks, good quality ones, Poles love pork and gammon is not available over here as such, pan fried gammon with chuncky chips mushy peas and a fried egg. They'll love it.

Great for soaking up the beer too.


You see i totally wouldnt go down that road, theres a very good chance they'll hate it but sit and politely finish the lot, then go out for football, beer and vodka, not a good combination.

No curries, no mexican, no chinese etc.. keep it traditional English but simple.


Thats news to me.

I guess you learn something new everyday.

datblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/the-rise-of-the-polish-bobo

There has been a massive amount of Sushi bars, Thai eateries and Coffee houses opening in PL, trend it maybe but fact it is.

How about a nice barbeque.????I don't know anyone that doesn't enjoy a good steak or hamburger or sausage done on the grill.

Some tripe might go down well :) Quite a few like it here.

Another weird article, hardly proof that sushi is trendy among 20 - 30 year olds. Where do you find this crap?


That'll work - weather permitting.

WB, Here is a link to Warsaw in your pocket.

inyourpocket.com/poland/warsaw/restaurants-cafes/thai

inyourpocket.com/poland/warsaw/restaurants-cafes/japanese

There has been a growing trend in Asian food in Warsaw for the last years. The amount of sushi bars is obscene and Thai is becoming the new Sushi.

I've also noticed that sushi is quite popular among young people in Poland.

If you buy a nice piece of " Karkowka" and slice it up, that will give you some lovely gammon steaks.

Fair enough but Warsaw isn't Poland is it?


Thats the thing though they wont be gammon steak as we know, unless you can cure the meat properly its just another brown slab of pork.

Well it is the capital, and all begins here. SO getting back to the thread, I would go with Sushi or Thai. But as Teffle mentioned not too spicy.

If you decide to go with Gammon steaks here is a link:

abc.net.au/coodabeens/stories/s1511289.htm

nah, get some good bangers and smashed peas.. maybe even haggis.. these are similar to PL food but different still... grilling is always good..

Really?

I like gammon with chips and mushy peas as well so I might go down that road. There is a nice butchers that I go to so might get some gammon steaks from there.


Good idea but like you say depending on the weather well they are down for a long weekend so hopefully one day might be nice but as everyone knows the English weather isn't very good.


I like haggis it's a nice dish. Bangers and mash with mushy peas you can't go wrong :).

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On the fish side of things I was thinking of sea bass with rosemary potatoes with a nice bottle of wine.

That's right.Gazza don't belive that Poles eat only Polish food and cook them something British/English.They have Polish food in Poland.

I love Greek food. How about some BBQ lamb Gazza? I'll be there in a jiffy!

What starts in Warsaw does tend to spread outwards. As an example, the ****** town of 100,000 people my girlfriend comes from now has two sushi restaurants. Of course, they're both utterly **** but the majority of Polish sushi places aren't worth eating at. As for Thai, I'm not seeing any explosion of Thai restaurants here. In fact I can't think of a single one which has opened this year but I can easily name a very good one which has closed this year.

Humm what things like the solidarity movement, only the most important part of Polands history throughout the 1900's, where did that begin?

Maybe some things do but this Warszawski dude is a snob, he comments on things in Poland based on experiences in Warsaw, and thats not right.

Warsaw doesnt represent Poland, is anybody denying that??????

WB, enough already, with your malicious rants. Just accept that other people have the right to post on PF, come on lets face, Gammon steaks,chips and egg, it is 2010 not 1990, Polish people are well out of the culinary dark ages.


I comment on things in Poland based on experience in Poland, which I can safely say is more experienced and more actual than yours my dear friend, so please stop your nonsense.


There are also Sushi bars that have closed down this year, the restaurant industry is a very fickle industry as I am sure you know. I would have expected Nandos to have hit Poland by now.

Get out the good old lard and vodka;).

What a snobbish thing to say.

So I take the removal as your comment lol

I am Polish and I think I would personally love to have that (more than the gammon steak and chips I guess) :-)

BTW - what cut of pork is gammon exactly? Does it correspond to any of the Polish cuts at all? I just bought a largish piece of unsmoked gammon at Asda and am wondering how to best cook it. Steaks I know, but could I also cut it into smaller pieces for a stew / goulash of sorts? Or roast it?