Today's Polish Sunday dinner?

What have you had or are planning to have for that big Sunday dinner today? I've just finished reheated roast chicken (from the supermarket), mashed potatoes, cranberry-horsradish relish and sliced tomato.

Any special meals for the long weekend? :)

What about karkówka (neck pork), marinated overnight in Wishbone dressing with a splash of white wine and grilled over charcoal.

Is it a long weekend in Poland?
I've just bought a rack of ribs, which I'll simmer in stock for a couple of hours this evening with carrots, spuds and the usual pot veg. Tomorrow the bones will simply fall off the meat when I reheat it. But will I skim off the fat that rises to the top, as I know I should?

Sounds good :) Sorry, it's a long weekend in UK - bank holiday on Monday.
OK, time to make some dumplings!

BTW - I love karkowka too!

My last week`s traditional Polish Sunday lunch. Preparation was very adventurous.
TBC

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TBc as I said

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Delicious!

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The dinner in posts 6/7/8 was a little joke.

Now a true Polish dinner.

Except it wasn`t Sunday, but Saturday. Never mind, all the same.

The main dish is Polish fave fried pork chop - kotlet schabowy.

What is this liquid in photo 2 and what is this stuff scooped onto potatoes in photo 4?

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Saturday dinner continued:

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Looks like a mushroom sauce.

Sorry, no. Fried pork chop doesn`t go with mushrooms.
But thanks for your guess, anyway. Much appreciated.

Fried onion?

Omasta, what else?

of course, typical dressing for mashed potatoes and not only.

Then there was dessert.

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Iced water with lemon or home-made lemonade? Not sure about the orange colour bit at the bottom of the jug though.
Dessert in the middle looks like sernik z rosą. I make this quite often.

Yes, home made lemonade with pears and grapefruit... :):):) Excellent!


Unfortunately, no but I can`t blame you coz the photo is obscure. That was an apple pie with beza - meringue top - you can see a piece of it in the last photo.

Thanks for relentless guessing - you are so stubborn and never give up. I love it coz it is so Polish! :):):)

For tea, adults have coffee. I add honey to it instead of sugar. Our village neighbour keeps bees in the garden. They pollinate my stuff, too, so I feel obliged to buy their honey from him. I will scratch your back if you scratch mine'. hahahaha

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I see delicious Polish dishes on the table, but alcohol is missing (kompot would be good, but for kids). It's not what it used to be in the old Poland ;-)

I know it's a joke but for information sake- in all my years in Poland I didn't experience alcohol on a table doing ordinary dinner.

Well, it's not entirely a joke, especially 30-40 years ago. Drinking vodka or spiritus after dinner used to be Popular in Poland. These days, they skip it or drink wine / beer or kompot. I'm not convinced this is much healthier than strong spirits.

Again, no. At least not in any household I visited. If you came as a guest (especially special one) but not on normal/daily basis

I've lived in Poland for 30 years in this era so I know what I'm talking about, hopefully.

I did too.

Alcohol was drunk at various celebrations, but certainly not for everyday dinner.

The only alcohol that is allowed in our family when we are eating together with kids is my beer..

Yes, in communist times people drank to their meals more than today


No. They didn`t need to drink spirit coz they had vodka.

I lived in a Polish village, maybe that changes the perspective.

And that is why Lenka and Alien and me too, tend to disagree with you that alcohol was on every table to every meal 40 years ago. No, it wasn`t . Mainly at celebrations. I suppose 3 of us who disagree were raised in cities.

I lived in a village where people would make moonshine, so sometimes there was little to eat but plenty of alcohol. Maybe it was something special about this community, but overall there was a lot of drinking during those years, sometimes even before putting any food on a table. It was not normal or healthy, but that was the bleak socialism reality.

I don't think anyone argues that.

I tend to believe you. I can still hear such stories from nowadays. In wintertime, modern peasants aka farmers are bored coz hardly any work needs to be done in the fields so they stay at home and drink heavily. I am sure it was the same in communist times.
In cities, though, people were able to find more diverse entertainment so they didn`t need to drink so often. Hence our delicate disagreement. :):):)