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krysia   
29 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

I like lots and lots of mushrooms in my bigos.
But I'm getting hungry now, all this talk about food..... pierogi would taste good....
krysia   
29 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

POLISH CHEESECAKE

Crust:

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Filling:

2 pounds farmers cheese
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon flour
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teasoon salt
Prepare crust: Combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar, butter and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Mix until well-blended and mixture resembles wet sand. Press it into a 9-inch springform pan. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 9 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.

Make the filling: In a large mixing bowl, mash farmers cheese well with a fork or potato masher. Add sugar, eggs, flour, whipping cream, vanilla extract and salt. Mix with a fork until combined. Pour filling into prepared crust.

Bake in a pre-heated 350-degree oven for 1 hour. Turn oven off and leave cake in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack for 3 hours. Chill for several hours before serving.
krysia   
29 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Pierogi with mushrooms and sauerkraut

filling
1 lb sauerkraut, finely chopped
150 g butter
1 onion, chopped
1/4 lb fresh mushrooms, diced
pepper

Dough
4 cups flour
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
3/4-1 cup warm beef stock or beef bouillon
12 cups salt water

razzledazzlerecipes.com/ethnic-recipes/polish/pierogi-sauerkraut-filli ng.htm - Read more...
krysia   
29 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Golabki (Cabbage Roll-Ups)
1 large head of cabbage, center core removed
1 lb.each of ground beef, ground pork & ground veal
2 cups cooked white rice
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped salt pork
1 cup ketchup
2 cans tomato soup
1&1/2 cans water
1 TBLSP. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. each of salt, pepper
1/4 tsp. each of celery salt, sweet basil, nutmeg and worchestire sauce
1/2 stick of butter or margarine

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BIGOS (From A Secret Family Recipe)
One 33 ounce jar of Sauerkraut
One Savoy Cabbage
Two pounds beef
Two pounds pork
One pound of “breakfast” sausage links
½ pound smoked bacon
One pound Kielbasa
One onion
One SMALL can of Tomato paste or sauce
3 to 5 Bay Leaves
salt, pepper, oil, sugar, allspice

polstore.com/html/polishrecipes.html - Read more...
krysia   
22 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Those are potato pancakes. In Polish: Placki Ziemniaczane.
Never heard the name tochinel though.

Bugia

"Have you been eating the cookies?" "No! Honest, I haven't." "Then what is all that powdered sugar doing on your chest?" Bugia, or liar's cookies, leave a telltale trail.

foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_25300,00.html - Bugia recipe
krysia   
21 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Why are you called dead duck? Did someone try making czarnina out of you?
krysia   
16 Nov 2006
Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

What's a vampire's favorite soup?
krysia   
16 Nov 2006
Work / I want to move to Poland (but of course we need to find a good job) [117]

But the same happens in USA,

Nope. They never bring a dead body home. It's agaist the law. They stick it in a funeral home, inject juices into it, put make-up on and then off to church it goes. And after that, you follow the coffin in your nice warm car and watch it being dumped into a hole.

When I lived in a small village near Kraków, they would bring the body in the house for three days, in case it would wake up...

But now they have funeral homes in Poland.
krysia   
12 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Polish Vegetable Salad.
Easy and good.

6 potatoes peeled an boiled and diced
8 carrots peeled and boiled and diced
1 cup of peas(canned or thawed)
2 dill pickles finely diced
1 cup mayonaise
dash of salt and pepper

Mix it all up.
You can also add 2 diced up cellery sticks if you wish.
krysia   
11 Nov 2006
USA, Canada / Polish TV in the USA? [43]

Ya, I saw it. Niania. Funny, just like the Nanny
krysia   
11 Nov 2006
USA, Canada / Polish TV in the USA? [43]

You can Polish satelite TV from Dish Network. It's about $30.00/month, you get 4 Polish channels, and there is also a Polish Movie Channel for a little more.

Also you can get TV Polonia from the internet, where for $6.99/month you get movies, Polish sitcoms, news and other stuff.
krysia   
6 Nov 2006
Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

Not selling to anyone who will suck their blood dry!! That's for sure!
They're my pets.
krysia   
6 Nov 2006
Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

I have three ducks.


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krysia   
4 Nov 2006
Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Just let me know what dish you want and I will tell you how to make it

I am sorry I do not have a recipe for that.

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How do you make snake steak?


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krysia   
4 Nov 2006
Language / The Polish language - it's bloody hard! [210]

Go to byki.com It's a fast way to learn a language. First lessons are free and it's a good start. They pronounce the words fast or slow, they write them and it's a very good start. Please try it.
krysia   
1 Nov 2006
Travel / Krakow November! [16]

Novembers are usually drizzly and cold. The weather is similair to the US in the midwest. Snow can start falling in November and it can get cold. The Tatra mountains get more snow and earlier. The roads don't get plowed as well as in the US and if Poland gets hit by a snowstorm roads get really bad. But that's usually later in the season. Novembers are mostly dreary and rainy.

Polish people like foreigners. They like to see that someone is trying to learn their language and very often will help you out. They are proud people and they feel important when someone tries to speak their language. Many are learning english and would be very happy to practice their skills with an American person. So if you speak Polish enough to communicate, you don't have to worry about them being insulted. It's just the opposite.
krysia   
31 Oct 2006
Genealogy / Lubicz Family [8]

You know so much bolo, you're so informative, so smart, learned so much from your reply.......... How can a chick not like you?
krysia   
18 Oct 2006
Genealogy / SEARCHING FOR SACHAREWICZ RELATIVES IN POLAND [30]

Hi Cathy
I found some information on Edward Sacharewicz, don't know if he's the same person you're looking for. He came from Poland to England.

He was born August 8 - 1916
Died July 1984. Lived in Warrington, Cheshire, Lancashire
krysia   
12 Oct 2006
Life / Poland Religion in daily life/ INTERVIEW for school paper [28]

Yes, Easter baskets are blessed on a Saturday. I meant during Easter. It's not a tradition in the US, unless there is a Polish priest in the parish. Our parish has a Polish priest, and we bless baskets on Saturdays, but very few people come, only about 4 or 5.

And churches in America have a room for the children. I was in those rooms many, many times, because the kids get bored during the sermon, and if they're very young, they don't know what the heck the priest is talking about and start crying. Then everybody gives you dirty looks. So then, mothers with young children walk out to this sound-proof baby room. There are toys and a loud-speaker where you can continue hearing the sermon.

And where else can you change a diaper, but in the church bathroom?
krysia   
11 Oct 2006
Life / Poland Religion in daily life/ INTERVIEW for school paper [28]

In America during communion, an usher stands next to the row of seats organizing people and everybody goes to communion.
In Poland I met people who don't go because they feel they have sinned and don't feel like they should be be receiving the Holy Communion.

And I have seen people in Poland leave before the closing song. Mostly the ones standing in back.
In America the priest shakes hands with the people. Not with all, because it's impossible, but he does stand out there smiling and ready to talk to you.

At the sign of peace in Polish churches, I have observed people just glancing at you. Some say they don't want to touch.
In America they clap hands after a child is baptised or renewing vows for older couples or some other distinction made by the priest.
Every church is different, depending on the parish and priest.
krysia   
11 Oct 2006
Life / Poland Religion in daily life/ INTERVIEW for school paper [28]

Don't get so excited, Ly- .There are many, many, many churches in Poland. It's impossible to go to each one. I am just saying what I have observed based on the ones I did go in Warsaw, Krakow, Zakopane and surrounding areas.

Many people in the US wear jeans to church, I don't consider that "Sunday Clothes".
And yes, churches in the US have bathrooms, and they're free!!!!
krysia   
11 Oct 2006
Life / Poland Religion in daily life/ INTERVIEW for school paper [28]

IN POLAND:
1. Churches don't have carpets
2. Very few people go up to receive the Holy Comunion
3. The host is placed directly into the open mouth
4. In Some churches you kneel down when receiving the Host
5. With the sign of peace, they just nod their heads at you
6. People leave before the priest
7. When walking in a pew, they just walk in without kneeling first
8. You can stand and ushers don't bring an extra chair out for you
9. They bless Easter Baskets on Easter Sunday
10. People dress up nicer
11. They don't have bathrooms
12. They don't heat most churches nor do they have air conditionairs
13. They don't have missalettes
14. Priest doesn't shake hands with you at the end of the mass
15. They don't have Bingo or after-mass socials
16. The priest walks up the "ambona" to give the sermon
17. Lay people don't give out the communion
18. You see older people during the day praying the rosary
19. They won't clap their hands after a baptismal
20. The mass is in polish
krysia   
10 Oct 2006
Life / Child Adoption in Poland? [138]

Yes, bonding is important. My aunt had a vacant apartment where that bonding did occur with the new parents. But some people tend to keep quiet about adopting afraid of what others will say. Some think it's a beautiful thing, while others say they don't want to raise somebody else's child.

These "new parents" had to actually make two trips to Poland. The first time they got to know the child, they were allowed to take it out for the day and bring it back. Then the second time they were to stay at least 3 weeks and keep the child with them.

So it's not a cheap process, and you have to be able to get off work for these 3 weeks.

Yes, Poland is a little narrow-minded on some issues.
I had a talk with a Polish woman yesterday about adoption. She said that in Poland you would not dare say that your child is adopted because it would be treated as a disease and kids would laugh and point fingers at it.

In America it's just the opposite. An adopted child is someone very special and receives better treatment.
krysia   
10 Oct 2006
Life / Child Adoption in Poland? [138]

I was just there at the right time.
I know a guy who adopted a girl from Russia. He paid $20.000 and that included everything. The translations, accomodations, travel, home studies, etc.
When my brother and sister adopted, they stayed with family in Poland so that didn't cost anything.
krysia   
10 Oct 2006
Life / Child Adoption in Poland? [138]

If you go through an agency, they will charge you more. You pay them that $20.000 and they will take care of all the necessary paperwork for you.

Home studies are not cheap. They can cost anywhere from $1.000 and up. Translations, a trip to Poland, where you have to stay for about 3 weeks, cost of renting an apartment while there, paperwork, filing the documents with Polish Goverment, passports, visas - all add up. I only gave you the cost of adopting a child.