Expats' Polish food favourites

mizeria with mayo??? no! :) keep it single: sour creme, salt, pepper, pint of sugar and vinegar... :)

I would substract sugar and vinegar from this equation and added some dill ;-)

You mean a pinch here, right?

sorry, forgot the dill... vinegar must be, tho... :)


yes, thanks :)

I like it with just chives or onion, sour cream and salt.

I wonder if Poles try iskembe ćorbasI when holidaying in Turkey. This is their version of tripe soup. It isn't as peppery as flaki but they sometimes add vinegar at the table to give it a bit of a bite. It is considered to be a hangover cure, or rather a hangover prophylactic as it is eaten after a night's drinking. In Istanbul and other cities you can see cafes (lokanta) open late at night selling just iskembe ćorbasI. It's very good and I'd be hard pressed to have to choose between the Turkish and the Polish soups.

In Mexico they have a tripe soup very similar to flaki. The difference was that the broth was tangy. They serve it for breakfast (hangover curing link here?).

There was a lovely food that my wife called 'fabusia' but the butcher place I used to buy it at doesn't have it anymore. There was another similar one whose name escapes me.

what was it?

Like a soft pastry type thing with a ham filling inside. One was with mushrooms.

can you ask her, please? :)

Bah, she can't remember. Fabusie and, to my recollection anyway, smakosie was the second one. They were absolutely delicious but, predicably enough, loaded with calories.

I also like meatless meals though I am not a vegetarian per se. Gołąbki with cooked barley groats and wild msuhrooms are one example...Others include lentil-filled pierogi, ruskie (potato, cheese & fried onion) pierogi, pieróg -- a loaf stuffed with buckwheat, farmer cheese and potatoes, creamy spring vegetable soup (cauliflower, baby carrots, new potatoes, dill garnish), califlower with browned buttered breadcrumbs (known world-wide as à la polonaise), braised cabbage, braised beetroot (great accompaniment to duck, beef and game dishes), cooked radishes with polonaise topping...

Did anyone have a dish called "prażocha" or "lemieszka"? It is similar to polenta but made with (I think) wheat flour rather than corn meal.

What about a dish called "parzybroda". It's potatoes cooked with bacon and cabbage.

My grandmother used to cook both. I didn't have them since childhood. I'm wondering if anyone still cooks these dishes.

Not prażucha but my wife does occasionally coook parzybroda (chin-scorcher) soup. It is very nice, as are many other Polish soups.

I Love The Duck soup (black soup)served with home made Kluski.

I agree!!!

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Hmmm is it true that we drink too much? Sometimes yes...What about our food?not bad but unhealthy too:P Any ideas?

I've had herrings before but never Śledzie po kaszubsku (Herrings Kasubian style) Herrings, onions, tomato paste also can add sour cream and sliced hard boiled eggs. Found them very tasty.

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What Polish culinary delights go over well with foreigners?

A while ago we discussed Polish foods to which unaccustomed foreigners do not usually take to, so today let's turn things around. In your expeirence what Polish foods have foreigners immediately taken a fancy to? Here are some suggestions:

pączki, babka, szarlotka, ptasie mleczko, delicje, krówki, zrazy zawijane (the kasza gryczana that goes with it is less liked), gołąbki, bigos, kaczka z jabłkami, jajka faszerowane (hot in shells), kiełbasa (different types) including kabanosy, mizeria, żurek, zupa grzybowa, szczwiowa, ogórkowa, grzyby z patelni and skwarki. Know any more?