Category: Polish
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Polish flat bread with onion, corn, flax-seed meal and fresh herbs / tzw Cebularz Lubelski
While this dish is very popular in Poland and you can find it in almost every single bakery I had no idea that it comes from Jewish culture and it is actually called “Cebularz Lubelski” after one part of Poland where it suppose to originated from. “Cebularz” means something with onion… and in this case…
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Marzipan and blueberries whole wheat pancakes with flax-seed meal
 Back in the days my husband and I used to eat at iHop a lot. Almost every Saturday or Sunday we would go there for a breakfast and I would have a huge stack of pancakes, always a different flavor or whatever new they were having that time. One day while I was pregnant…
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Bread Machine Challah (Chałka)
Challah is a traditional jewish braided bread made on jewish holidays and Sabbath. In Poland, challah is very popular and it can be bought in any bakery. Though, this baked goodie has no religion meaning. Many people don’t even know that this bread comes from jewish culture. As a small kid I remember my mom…
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Homemade Marzipan (Marcepan domowe roboty)
First of all today is my turn for a post to World Moms Blog. Please stop by the blog and join the discussion about breast-feeding in public. As for my blog I’m talking about MARZIPAN!!!!!!!! Who doesn’t know what marzipan is or who has never tired it… gosh… you don’t know what you’re missing, people…
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Pasztet z marchwi РPolish Carrot P̢t̩ with coconut sugar glazed carrots
Dish this was in my head for a long time. As once vegetarian I used to make it quite often. I made a few changes like the glazed carrots inside or coconut oil but the rest of stayed pretty the same. Normally pasztet is meat based dish. In Poland it’s made from ground poultry, pork,…
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Polish “Babka” with almonds and white chocolate
I suppose to be on bed rest but it’s not that easy when you’re pregnant and when you crave so many different homemade goods. Last week, for example I had homemade chocolate milk pudding for dinner. Four times. What means that for four days I didn’t eat anything else for dinner just my pudding. Oh…
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Fat Thursday and Faworki always go together …
… at least in my home. Fat Thursday –Â is traditional Polish and German feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the next opportunity to feast would not be until Easter. (Wikipedia). All Catholics know that – not that I…
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Jennifer’s Cabbage with Apples (plus extra recipe for bread)
Jennifer – green wife of a green military guy 🙂 On her blog she writes about their journey while trying to become a zero waste household… . In her last post she wrote that sometimes when her husband is out at sea she skips trips to the store and she lives on cereal and raw…
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Homemade “Kisiel”
Sometime in the past I wrote a post about kisiel. The one that I had was a powdered kisiel I got from our Polish store. To make it you just need to add the powder to a boiling water and voila! I found it in our Polish store but I’ve never bought it again since.…
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“ChÅ‚odnik” Polish cold soup
Middle of Winter, and who does think about dishes that would refresh you and help you to cool down? Only pregnant women 🙂 Pregnant and living in CA where in January we have ripening tomatoes and growing lettuce outside our apartment. “ChÅ‚odnik” literally means “cooler” and in Poland and many European countries is eaten during…
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