Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


Makes a change from novichok and Polonium 210.

About wild mushrooms in Poland, one thing I've noticed (and this is probably more good than bad) is that they pick them when they're still tiny. Very different from the ones on sale further west which tend to be as big as possible.

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [110]

Very sad about Marian Turski, perhaps Poland's best known historian.

"Auschwitz did not descend from the sky," and the eleventh Commandment should be "Thou shalt not be indifferent," he said, adding: "Because if you are indifferent, before you know it, another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants."

thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/marian-turski-obituary-jewish-historian-and-holocaust-survivor-5dzjm5crj

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]

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The Mordor district of Warsaw has, if only in a Fritz Lang sense...

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


I wouldn't take that too seriously. Nobody really thinks about them, and although they'll need replacing soon, nobody wants to talk about the cost of replacing them.

One little known fact is that the previous generation (nothing to do with American companies) all still exist and are kept in good condition ready to be primed if needed. Their precise location is of course presumably secret, and of course the Trident nukes are hard to find. They're all on subs which could be anywhere in the world and are undetectable and when not on subs are of course looked after carefully. I doubt even the Yanks know where they are at any given time.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


A friend (who through the week worked at a liceum) did 11 end to end identical listening lessons every Saturday at a university. He must have been on autopilot from about number 3.

With teach8 g, you so times need a sabbatical to come back with renewed enthusiasm etc. It should be an integral part of the job but nearly never is. Sometimes sick leave is the best and most realistic option.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


I'd go with that (if the pickled cabbage leaves are anything like Turkish pickled cabbage).

Definitely kasza, plent6 of herbs and some chilli or at least black pepper inside. Possibly no tomato at all for the sauce. Ajvar could be a base, or those tubes of Czech pepper paste that works nicely instead of tomato paste. The sour cream would work well.

Red cabbage could work (I prefer it to other types) in which case some finely chopped apple would go well as an ingredient for the filling.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


It isn't; that's a common myth.

They're on a service contract with the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin and go back in small batches now and again for maintenance. Neither the Americans nor any other foreign country have any sort of control whatsoever over their use and no idea where they are at any given time.

It is unlikely that the next generation will be from a manufacturer over there.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


The one with the big red button with Trident written on,


It is likely that they will have taken the lead before any invasion.


Except for the significant number of individuals in the government and military there who appear to support r*SSia. And u til recently there was still gas co i g from r*SSia. Hopefully that's stopped now, never to restart.


Yes.

Although the EU is floundering, it's strange that Turkey isn't a member. They're one of the few countries in Europe (at least part of Turkey is in Europe, unlike Reunion, Curacao, the Azores, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon etc which are bizarrely in the EU but nowhere near Europe) which like the U.K. has a growing population.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


That happens. Doing kids would wear me out.

Have you thought of teaching adults?

Teachers', Lecturers', Psychologists' and Social Workers' pensions kick in about a decade or so before statutory retirement again the U.K. and I could actually claim mine now but am leaving it for a few years so it grows and I get the full lump sum on retirement plus a larger annual amount than I'd get now. Is it possible to do something like that in PL?

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


That wouldn't sell well, however since the pre-eminent European political leader at the moment is Sir Keir Starmer, it would make sense for others to sign up to the Coalition of the Willing, as Poland is likely to anyway.


Has any other country except of course Ukraine had a chemical weapons attack from r*SSia?

News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]


The more the merrier.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


Precisely.

He missed Spain as well, even though they have a reasonably stable government and a competent army.

News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]


Germany is mentioned in the list.

Probably Turkey is a better bet due to its growing economy and infrastructure however Erdogan is 71 and waiting to see how things progress is a good idea. Germany needs to sort out the r*SSia supporting elements in the east, especially in public life before anything else.

Hungary is an odd country to have in the list, largely due to its r*SSophilic fascist President and deteriorating human rights (Turkey isn't perfect however they are at least growing and developing).

The strangest omission is the U.K. Europe's main scientific, technological and cultural powerhouse, its main financial centre, its most politically stable major country and one of its two nuclear states.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]

Rather you than me.

I remember when Marks and Spencer opened their food hall in Paris and the papers reported that a French woman had angrily returned a bag of pot pourri. She'd apparently thought it was a herbal tea and tried to drink some.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


It's a real continuum. You sometimes get similar thing in North Africa. Maybe the continuum ends in Alsace with choux farci.

Always nicer with kasza than rice too.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


Ewww, nasty. I've never seen the appeal.

Communists drink that fruit 'tea' stuff.

Because for them, all proper tea is theft...

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


This place sounds like a dream. Apparently at any one time, a small percentage of their customers are all dressed up for their final restaurant meal; very much a place for very elderly north Londoners.

They do all the 70s posh stuff like Steak Diane and Veal Holstein and have an amazing dessert trolley.

Proper old fashioned with peach wallpaper and not a retro hipster place.

foodieexplorers.co.uk/oslo-court-restaurant-st-johns-wood-london/

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


Sadly I never got a sniff at that. Too much Home Counties wedding reception food to really penetrate pit villages.


Mmmm. The Berni Inn was where we always went for special treats. Never the steak though and always "we'll have the coffee at home" to save money. I miss them. The local Berni is now a Wetherspoon's and not the same.

Findus crispy pancakes were lovely. Viennetta too when it came out despite being basically a Soviet idea (and you used to see those 'icemastry' places in Poland doing them from scratch.


I never had that chance. It was always "get out of my kitchen". It was always presented as something of a mystery where more could go wrong than right. When I had to start cooking, I got the Delia complete cookery course on special offer and never looked back.

Prawn cocktail? Maybe the nicest food I've every eaten in any restaurant in Poland was a prawn salad that was basically a humongous prawn cocktail. That was in Gdynia, just by the port.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


Not for millennia and pretty well everywhere in Europe was covered by that once.


Not that chasseur has ever been a hunting term.

As I say, dishes come in families. Things like gołąbki exist in their own way in many countries, borscht we know about and it's much the same with cabbage/processed pork dishes.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


There's an overlap between devilled eggs and the more 60s suburban egg mayonnaise. Half a boiled egg slathered with mayonnaise flavoured with Dijon mustard. Real mayonnaise so a little runnier than bottled.

We never had them at home, though I'd eaten them at other houses. I'd have one out of politeness (being happy if I never ever saw an egg, except maybe poached once in a blue moon).


It's time for a 70s and 80s food revival. Not just stuff like arctic rolls but tinned salmon instead of tuna (a much better product) and things like chicken Maryland or for an ultra special occasion Tournedos Rossini.

My late ex was a few years older than me and used to cook in a 70s way, mackerel pate and toast etc. I learnt from Delia Smith so am sort of a bit stuck in the 80s. Her recipes always work though.

Food / Polish & US heat & eat foods? [23]


The big ones are marrows. Don't taste of much and the skin's tough but you can stuff them.

There are also recipes for marrow jam however that doesn't sound nice.

Food / Polish & US heat & eat foods? [23]


Courgettes? Nice just blanched in roundels or quick pickled.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


Pretty much. Never liked them.


I find the opposite, however we used to have home made. Easy to make stronger or weaker.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


Remember that nowadays, France and Poland are a day's drive away and dishes tend to come in families depending on available ingredients and economic need. Sometimes looking for a single origin for a type of food is fruitless; the best you can do is look for its first written mention.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]


As the French made choucrout.

Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]


We have/had something very similar in the U.K. in roughly the same period; it had a sort of a 50s/60s feel to it. Not popular nowadays and I never liked it.


Nothing nicer on a beef and dripping sandwich.

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Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]


It always does. Looks nice though.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Germany is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

This is called the Wurst Käse scenario.

Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]

At that address, they eat Angel Delight