Genealogy / Vintage Photos of Polish ancestors [144]

Looking for my uncle and his family somewhere in the UK (taken July, 1955

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Travel / Hometown / Vacation pictures Poland [201]


Well since you are a VTer check out my homepage...lots of photos there :) Are you Polish Fisz or just your better half.

members.virtualtourist.com/m/66b9a

Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Don't know what you call the rolled meat in Polish but I have had and made the German version Rouladen and the Italian version called Braciole. Both excellent. I am guessing the rouladen may come closer to the Polish version. flank steaks spread with some mustard, onion, pickle and bacon, rolled then browned in a pan. Served with maybe potaotoe dumplings and gravy and some nice fresh geen beans. The Braciole is pork steaks (thin) spread with parmesan cheese, parsley, seasoning and rolled and then gently browned and finished by throwing in tomato sauce (the sauce you make for pasta)

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]


we called it sznycle...sort of like a baby meatloaf. She served it with cucumber salad and boiled potatoes. Haven't had that since I was a kid.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

My favorite Polish beer.

Language / Where did you start or the best techniques for learning Polish. [85]

Me I was born into it. (well I can speak and read some..please talk slowly..dzienkuje. The writing part is the hardest but I Skype with a cousin in Poland and she doesn't know English so learn from her by listening and coping her text...heheheh) Not all colleges have Polish as a language. I assume that it is a given for UK members to find classes since so many Poles have moved there so I am thinking it is easier to find a class. Some Polish churches have Polish classes. There are many software for learning a language.

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

I think you should use a covered pan (one of those oval deep ones for your golumki. Just sitting on a cookie sheet will dry them out and burn the leaves (I can see by the photos) Add some water to the pan just enough to coover the bottom and allow them to steam, you will need to check and add periodically) We also stack them on top of each other in the pan. Towards the end of the baking time then try adding you sauce. I don't like mushy ones ( cabbage must be moist yet insides on dry side...meaning the rice and meat does not look clumped and like paste)

A typical Polish Plate served at festivals.

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

To keep you golumki together when rolling them make sure the seam side is set down (not up) Then when you place one next to the other and on top of each other if making many they will hold themselves from coming apart. To fill you use the pocket (stem side) to place filling, fold over one edge then the other edge and roll down till the end placing the end facing down in the pan.

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]


My mom uses ketsup in the last stage of adding water just before they are done. Shw will take equal part water to ketsup and mix so that it will have the consistancy of a sauce and pour over the golumbki. I do not add ketsup when I am eating them although some members of the family will put ketsup on them when eating them. This gives just enough hint of a taste and is not as over powering as ketsup dumped directly on them.

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

You are lucky to have a Polish Buffet to go where you are. We do have a great reataurant /deli though with great homeade selections :) smacznego!!!!!

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


aaaaaaaahhh the toilet was occupied.

Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

dze jest mojie pierogi

USA, Canada / Sending packages from US to PL, cheapest alternative? [36]

I have sent packages to Poland and get feed back many times they arrived within a week....I usually give my pkgs about 10 days. Send it via USPS. I never expect the best so always glad to hear good feedback. UPS cost a fortune.

Food / Eating Kielbasa - how do you cook yours? [119]


I would not believe it for a second Seanus. Does that look like a monkey to you.....LOL

Pawian what are you telling us here....double trouble..... LOL

Back to topic...I've usually had kielbasa smoked and then boiled. That sizzle looks good and probably very tasty but then I would want to eat it served like hots with mustard and kapusta.

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

Hey guys ...for Christmas I made my first batch of Kapusta. My mom said is was very good and asked for seconds (LOL) Now I have to move on to something new for my second dish to make that is Polish. I found a great blog in my quest for some recipe guidance in preparing Google up Baking with Dynamite and look for Adam. He has some good recipes for Polish foods. (chiropractor and bodybuilder)

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

My try at Kapusta...... yummm

This was some cookies my cousin in Poland made for Wigilia...double yummmm

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

I had posted 3 photos...what happened to my other one. Was it removed????

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

it appeared and was photo of food. I think the admin. ate it...virtual food snatchers...LOL...one more time

Sweets for the sweet. or just in case you get the munchies.....LOL

USA, Canada / Polish Citizen, US legal resident, but no Polish Passport... [67]

I went to dot gov and printed out forms to renew my passport last august. Cost of photos was $13.00 for three (2 must be sent with form) and mailed out a check for 75.00 and in a few weeks recieved it back with old passport. All this info at dot gov and can be done through the mail. I was told it would take forever because they are back logged. Not true so don't believe all this mis information. The only way to find out for sure is to go directly to the source as each case is different.

USA, Canada / Polish Citizen, US legal resident, but no Polish Passport... [67]

Try reading this article and contacting the person with the email at the end of the page.

[quote][Krakowianka:/quote] Gee I haven't been addressed as Sunshine in ages. I didn't like it then and don't now either. What should I call you Wise-a-$-$ ?

Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

We should collect recipes and have a cook book printed. All proceeds to go to a needy Polish family.

USA, Canada / Any Poles in Texas! [61]


I think you Poles are watching too many westerns. :D

Check out James Texas website [polish-texans.com/polish-music-in-hockley-texas-2.html]

Language / Ukrainian language similar to Polish? [236]

I am a Polish American that can speak and understand Polish. I have friends who are Ukranian. I can understand some words to get the gest of what is being said but if it is written it looks like Russian so I would never be able to read it or even sound it out as I can Polish. If spoken similar to Polish more than Russian yet some Russian words are close to Polish also if you listen closely. Same as Spanish and Italian are similar in some cases yet not. (I also detect a feeling Ukranians feel they are better than a Pole does this show in EU)

Genealogy / Vintage Photos of Polish ancestors [144]

Yes the last name is Chodacki (Chodacka) His first name was Walter. On the back of one foto it says Morecombe. It could have been a vacation photo or they lived in that town. Unfortunately the family has no information and my mom does not remember anymore. (she is now 88yrs old) It's like looking for a needle in a haystack with only a couple fotos to go by.

Food / POLISH RECIPES! [287]

Do you know that most of the recipes you talk about or ask for so far are in the cookbook called Polish Heritage by Robert Strobel and excellent book.

USA, Canada / Can Polish citizens with US greencard travel to Canada? [63]

The laws have changed as of June 2009 so get your passport or you may not be able to reenter US.

Genealogy / Looking for Pawel Rutkowski [9]

I saw your post on another Polish forum and Googled the name and found a few and an address. If you have done so and written then chances are they are not ready to write back. Must be prepared for this. But don't give up. After years of searching just recently found my uncle's family....He spells his name with an i (male) and so did his kids the females should have used the a but did not associate name as being correct except I had a foto and they could not deny it was my uncle their father. They saw a post I left on internet but never wrote back......but did leave a response there so I decided to check Facebook and then a connection was finally acknowledged. the response to post was 2010 and I only ran across my own post 2012 so make sure wherever you write to keep a log so you know where you have been.

Language / Is rosetta stone any good for learning Polish? [51]

this is exactly true what he says. Best way is to live in the country and to use or loose. I would try thye library and see what they have available.

Food / Trying to find name of polish soup (szczawiowa) [14]

check out Smaczniego on yahoo groups...it is a Food forum and has Robert Strybel who wrote Polish Heritage Cookery as a member. there are many recipes to choose from or someone will get you one.

Travel / Starbucks in Poland? [149]

Warsaw has a Starbucks. I stop for a Latte every now and then but as a coffee drinker and drinking it the way I do....it is highly overpriced for me to visit often. (it's only coffee folks) Starbucks is more of an expresso coffee so stronger than the average cup you would be making at home