/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20048255]

Thoughts on Polish food?

[Anonymous No.20048267]

Pierogies are good, kielbasa is good. Don't know or care about the rest of it

[Anonymous No.20048271]

>>20048255
What the fuck is this shit

[Anonymous No.20048286]

>>20048255
depressing, 1000s of years of development just to come up with disgusting baby food, i hope all poles perish in hell for this. the dumplings are okay-ish

[Anonymous No.20048302]

V. good but i`ve never tasted new pierogie recipes
Canadians will do it btw just like calif*rnians stole sushi fot a decade

[Anonymous No.20048388]

>>20048255
I really want to try pierogis. Sounds delicious

[Anonymous No.20048464]

Pierogi are kino.

[Anonymous No.20048551]

>>20048255
tastes better than it looks?

[Anonymous No.20048719]

>>20048286
They invented bread as we know it, jackass

[Anonymous No.20048842]

>>20048271
Looks like fried dumplings with sour cream and stuffed cabbage leaves with tomato sauce.
It's probably delicious, you animal.

[Anonymous No.20048846]

>>20048255
polish food all looks like shit but apparently is pretty good

[Anonymous No.20048875]

>>20048255
Looks Bland, Boring and Tasteless but it must be better than British 'food'.

Never eaten Polish food or British food but I heard British food is bad so Polish must be better.

I'm from the USA and trans.

[Anonymous No.20048878]

>>20048875
Are you okay?

[Anonymous No.20049046]

>>20048255
yuroslop always looks and tastes disgusting and bland

[Anonymous No.20049095]

>>20048255
I've toured Poland several times, and eaten both home cooking and at restaurants, and it's perfectly fine. Not great, but cheap, filling, and unpretentious.

The food can be a bit on the greasy side, and they barely understand how to cook vegetables, but anything that is pickled, fermented, smoked, or otherwise preserved tends to be outstanding. That includes their jams, mustards, and even stuff like pickled fish. It is an incredibly practical cuisine, and

Bigos (Sauerkraut and chopped meat), Goulash (a stew with large meat and vegetable chunks), Zurek (sour rye soup), all of these are excellent dishes that I highly recommend, and all are excellent with Polish rye bread.

[Anonymous No.20049151]

>>20048255
Neutral

[Anonymous No.20049187]

im english with polish family from my mother's side and i've never seen them put sour cream or "smietana" on pierogi, it's usually butter, fried onions or bacon bits

[Anonymous No.20049216]

>>20049187
Since they're kind of a PITA to make people don't make them as often as they used to and stick with a family style like a ritual comfy treat

[Anonymous No.20049241]

>>20049216
my grandma only makes them for christmas but hers are so much better than the ones from supermarkets, i can it like 20 at once. we're already running out of the ones made this year, i will miss them

[Anonymous No.20049258]

>>20049241
Get her recipe while you can, Anon, trying to recreate recipes...

[Anonymous No.20049389]

>>20049258
i've tried believe me. she always tells me she doesn't have a recipe and just does it lol. next time she makes them i'll volunteer to help to get to know her secrets. i know that she makes them with pork mince, sauerkraut and wild mushrooms

[Anonymous No.20049668]

>>20049151
Dirty kraut.

[Anonymous No.20049717]

>>20048551
Absolutely. If you like sauerkraut bigos will become addicting.

[Anonymous No.20049761]

>>20048286
Hell would be better than Poland under current German (EU) rule.

[Anonymous No.20049770]

Give me 3 Polish meals that I should cook to get a good sense of Polish food?
I want at least one of the meals to involve Pierogi but what do I need to add to make it a meal?

[Anonymous No.20049780]

Extremely delicious. Pierogies are orgasmic

[Anonymous No.20049784]

Pierogi is the starter Polish dish that hooks everyone in

Zurek is the hidden gem

Bigos is the final boss and probably the absolute best polish food

[Anonymous No.20049788]

Aesthetically repulsive, tastes great.

[Anonymous No.20049814]

>>20049784
In my family we'd always reheat the leftover bigos and add sour cream and tons of paprika and call it "Hungarian bigos"

[Anonymous No.20049829]

Mogged by Germans in the Polish sausage department

[Anonymous No.20049951]

>>20048388
>I really want to try pierogis. Sounds delicious

[Anonymous No.20050767]

>>20048551
definitely. bigos is delicious.

[Anonymous No.20050773]

>>20049187
Polish here, living in Poland. idk where the sour cream on pierogi idea came from. when you get Pierogi in Poland, they almost always come with fried onions or bacon bits on top

[Anonymous No.20050796]

>>20049770
>I want at least one of the meals to involve Pierogi but what do I need to add to make it a meal?
you could make barszcz z uszkami (a type of clear borscht with tiny pierogi inside)
pierogi are usually eaten on their own. I guess you could add some Polish salad on the side, like mizeria or ćwikła (the latter goes better with meats though)

anyway, I would pick from:
>barszcz
>żurek (sour rye soup)
>bigos (add forest mushrooms for extra based effect. preferably Porcini, the most highly-regarded mushroom in Poland)
>gołąbki (cabbage rolls)
>schabowy (Polish spin on the schnitzel)
>potato pancakes (the "placek po zbójnicku" version with spicy meat stew on top is great)
>whatever version of pierogi you want to make

[Anonymous No.20050798]

>>20049829
heh... nothin personnel, kid.

[Anonymous No.20050816]

>>20049784
For me it's the humble placki ziemniaczane z gulaszem. More specifically, placki po wegiersku.

[Anonymous No.20050832]

>>20049761
the polish obsession with germans is extremely embarrassing to the point of being humiliating. germans don't ever think or talk about poles

[Anonymous No.20050840]

>>20050816
yep, these are fucking based

[Anonymous No.20050841]

>>20050796
Awesome, saved
Where do I fit Kabanos in?

[Anonymous No.20050849]

>>20048255
Polacks are niggers of Europe and their food reflects that

[Anonymous No.20050852]

>>20050841
probably as an appetizer with some mustard. or throw it into the bigos if you want to experiment

[Anonymous No.20050857]

>>20050840
It's a crime pierogi gets all the hype for Polish food when, in my opinion, it's one of the most boring. Especially compared to stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.20051012]

>>20050798
Kabanossi are one of the worst Polish sausage types tho

[Anonymous No.20051024]

>>20051012
The worst Polish sausage must then be better than 60% of the sausages of the world.
That being said, the worst Polish sausage would be kielbasa biala.

[Anonymous No.20051035]

>>20048255
Kurwa.

[Anonymous No.20051036]

>>20051024
Damn that looks as nasty as Weißwurst. However my point still stands, Germans make the better Polish sausages. Just as they mog every country's pickle efforts.

[Anonymous No.20051039]

>>20051012
no way, they're one of my favorites. perfect snack food. Lisiecka is number one for sandwiches though, followed by Krakowska

[Anonymous No.20051041]

>>20050857
amittedly you can stuff pierogi with anything you want, so they're only as boring as whoever makes them

[Anonymous No.20051064]

>>20050857
>It's a crime pierogi gets all the hype for Polish food when, in my opinion, it's one of the most boring. Especially compared to stuff like that.

As the other anon said, you can stuff pierogi with pretty much anything. My favorite are blueberry followed by potato and twarog (dry white farmer cheese) whereas my post-WWII Polish immigrant mom liked plum pierogi and my immigrant Polack dad was a kapusta and mushroom man.

[Anonymous No.20051072]

>>20051064
>My favorite are blueberry followed by potato and twarog (dry white farmer cheese) whereas my post-WWII Polish immigrant mom liked plum pierogi and my immigrant Polack dad was a kapusta and mushroom man.
all quite popular pierogi fillings. here in Poland you can even get some more oddball varities. spinach and feta cheese pierogi are pretty commonly available, as well as "mexican" pierogi (usually filled with some sort of chilli con carne)
bacon and potato is a good one too

[Anonymous No.20051077]

>>20051041
>>20051064
I get that point. But still, it's not as nice as having a big hearty cabbage stew, or crispy fried potato pancakes.

[Anonymous No.20051081]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cSBz-XrGI

if you like pierogi/dumplings you owe it to yourself to try this at least once. the problem with most eastern european dishes is that there are barely any inspiring people that push these dishes to the limit. 99 out of 100 times it's below average cooks just doing what mom used to do. whenever I see someone use ground pepper I already know that they're gonna half-ass everything. this is the standard. helen seems to be the only exception

[Anonymous No.20051119]

>>20051072
>oddball varities

I wish I could cook, because I think fried kiszka pierogi would be great.

[Anonymous No.20051137]

>>20051039
idk they're a weird middle thing between the soft stuff and the hard types, sort of crumbly/dry.

[Anonymous No.20051142]

>>20048255
> ketchup on golabki

Must be from Ohio...

[Anonymous No.20051185]

Is this really all there is to Polish food, pierogis, stuffed cabbage, and kielbasa?

[Anonymous No.20051251]

Too heavy and fatty

[Anonymous No.20051292]

>>20051251
we're talking about Polish cuisine, not your mom...

[Anonymous No.20051306]

>>20051185
The problem with 'Polish food' is that unless you have access to a proper importer of Polish food, you're missing out half of it. Our delis always have 20 types of ham and sausage, and generally the grocery store is where it really shines because we have a lot of good stuff like a hundred varieties of mustard, jarred mystery meat with names like 'courtly delicacy', actually good mayonnaise, dried wild mushrooms and pretty nice sweets. I could, for example, tell you all about how much I love poppy seed cakes, but where would you people buy them or even buy the poppy seed filling to make it yourself?

However, regarding slightly more obscure dishes, you're in luck. One of my favourites, Greek fish, has an English recipe, though I bake it after assembling in a dish.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/polish-fish-ryba-po-grecku-recipe-1137014

[Anonymous No.20051578]

>>20051064
my grandma makes them with meat, wild mushrooms and sauerkraut and they're my absolutely favourite

[Anonymous No.20051580]

>>20051142
i couldnt even tell that was golabki lmao

[Anonymous No.20051604]

>>20051306
Polish delis in America have some tasty treats like picrel. And Polish butcher shops? The smell is all the advertising they need, amazing.
But sometimes you do need to be careful even if you speak the language. My friend's Polish cousin (as in, actually from Poland) was visiting USA and bought some sausage from a local deli that came in a literally inedible plastic casing (what the fuck is even the point), and he didn't realize it until we were all spitting out pieces of plastic at dinner. I cringe at the memory because we ate a little more to be polite but it had been cooked in the plastic too. (Fuck you "sous vide" fags, that is not normal or OK.)

[Anonymous No.20051879]

They have nice icecream, I get a bunch of these from the polack store. Very mild vanilla flavor, basically milk flavored.

[Anonymous No.20052047]

>>20051142
It doesn't even look like it was cooked in any kind of sauce. It's possibly the worst golabki I've seen in my life.

[Anonymous No.20052078]

I'm Slovenian and I can testify that bigos is better than the stews of our cuisine. Not a big fan of borscht though, but I am interested in trying Polish white borscht in the bread bowl with the boiled eggs.

[Anonymous No.20052144]

>step 1: take german food
>step 2: claim it's polish

[Anonymous No.20052267]

>>20052144
>pierogi
>bigos
>barszcz
>kabanosy
>potato pancakes
>gołabki
>paprykarz
literally not a single dish posted in this thread is German, anon...

[Anonymous No.20052278]

>>20052267
first thing I googled
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoffelpuffer

[Anonymous No.20052299]

>>20052278
>English wikipedia has a whole sub-section for the Polish version and barely mentions the German one
not helping your case much. should have cherrypicked schabowy or golonka, as these are actual German influences. unluckily, no one has posted these ITT

[Anonymous No.20052301]

>>20052299
english version lists germany first actually

[Anonymous No.20052432]

>>20048255
Poles have very good pork products.

[Anonymous No.20052474]

>>20048255
I don't know what that is but it looks delicious

[Anonymous No.20052484]

>>20048286
jew

[Anonymous No.20053202]

>>20048255
>Unraveled dim sims with tomato sauce
>Wet sausage rolls topped with cream
I'm Australian, we can buy that at the shops anyway

[Anonymous No.20053378]

I should kill myself

[Anonymous No.20053408]

>>20053378
ale kurwa, co pierdolisz

[Anonymous No.20053727]

>>20052301
I don't see the word Germany in that list. I do see a hyperlink to the article on "Central Europe" which includes Poland.

[Anonymous No.20054002]

>>20048255
Looks hearty and utilitarian for the Polish frozen climate.
I want to tried Pierogi and Bigos btw.

[Adventurer No.20054125]

>>20050767
My smoking hot Polish wife makes this. 10/10

[Anonymous No.20054238]

>>20048255
i like the sossij's

[Anonymous No.20054394]

>>20051012
I had some one time and the spices were all funky tasting and weird

[Anonymous No.20054456]

>>20048255
Zurek sour rye soup is top tier especially during colder months.
Also their ice cream is delicious.

[Anonymous No.20054457]

i can see why the polish didn't resist the german takeover

[Anonymous No.20055573]

Sick of it now

[Anonymous No.20055579]

>>20048255
I made pierogis once. They turned out delicious but took hours, don't think I'll make them again.

[Anonymous No.20057395]

Bump, talk more about Polish food.

[Anonymous No.20057474]

>>20051024
>kielbasa biala.
That's a soup sausage. It's absolutely fantastic in Zurek/White Borscht.

[Anonymous No.20057808]

"Krokiety", "barsz z uszkami" and "pierogi"on christmas eve is pure kino

[Anonymous No.20058117]

>>20057808
Polish Christmas Eve is great in general. A feast with 12 dishes, some of which you only really get to eat at Christmas.
Definitely the most /CK/ holiday in Poland.

[Anonymous No.20058131]

>>20048719
No, is this some Polish cope. Bread was invented in the middle east.

[Anonymous No.20058167]

>>20058131
When you think of bread, do you think tortilla? No, you think of a nice loaf of bread

[Anonymous No.20058199]

>>20048255
It looks unpolished

[Anonymous No.20058212]

>>20048255
I like fucking polish women,

[Anonymous No.20058312]

>>20058117
My mom, gradma and I used to do 12 dishes, but over the years it became a bit to much work for us and there was so much food that some of it was going to waste. especially after Grandpa passed away and now sister moved away. We still have quite a bit of it with some variety like two different kinds of "krokiety" and "pierogi", some "makówki", home made deli, etc. In short quite a bit of work to in days leading to christmas but fuck me is it worth it.

[Anonymous No.20058690]

>>20058167
A nice loaf of bread, the kind they invented in the Greece.

[Anonymous No.20058711]

>>20048255
It's gay.

[Anonymous No.20058743]

>>20050832
The hell are you on about. Germoids think about polshits all day why else would they divert so much EU money to give them gibs?

[Anonymous No.20058759]

>>20058743
>Germoids think about polshits all day
Is this English? What does this mean?

[Anonymous No.20059270]

>>20058690
oh yeah everyone knows how well known the greek are for their bread

[Anonymous No.20059272]

>>20058759
>he isn't Terminally Online

[Anonymous No.20059339]

>>20048255
Too many consonants

[Anonymous No.20059359]

>>20059339
Bruh, some of their consonants are actually vowels, get with it

[Anonymous No.20060271]

>>20059359
Which ones?

[Anonymous No.20060482]

>>20048255
o cholera

[Anonymous No.20061953]

>>20058312
>shrinking family
Westernization 65% complete. Now open the flood gates for your demographic upgrade. Think of all the great novel food. And food delivery. :)

[Anonymous No.20062210]

>>20061953
Donald Tusk will soon bring the light of western civilisation to the dark forests of Ostland and its ape-like inhabitants.

[Anonymous No.20062241]

>>20048255
it's very much dishes meant to feed working men. it's good stuff, but heavy. gotta watch the portions.

[Anonymous No.20063840]

>>20059339
Those are actually double letter pronounced as one consonant like sh or ch

[Anonymous No.20063850]

>>20060271
spwcifically, sauerkraut pierogi with sour cream

[Anonymous No.20064442]

>>20048255
Polish food and Eastern Euro food is trash. The exception being Hungary. I would rather eat Spanish or French food than whatever slop that is

[Anonymous No.20064541]

>>20064442
hungarian goulash is god tier

[Anonymous No.20064901]

>>20050773
Baltic Russian here, we tend to put sour cream on pelmeni, which are basically a simpler/worse kind of pierogi. So it probably came from Russians.

[Anonymous No.20064935]

>>20048255
That’s how you can tell those creatures have no culture, clearly haven’t been surface dwellers for long.

[Anonymous No.20066975]

>>20064541
this

[Anonymous No.20067389]

>>20064901
I guess that makes sense. So maybe Americans are making pelmeni and not pierogi?
I know they stuff them with potatoes too which is also not popular in Poland, aside from the quark, fried onion and potato variant know as "pierogi ruskie"

[Anonymous No.20067605]

behold, the ultimate Polish snack

[Anonymous No.20067626]

>>20067389
>So maybe Americans are making pelmeni and not pierogi?
Why do you think we eat them with sour cream? I don't.

[Anonymous No.20067785]

I wish I had a Polish friend so I could try Polish food because it looks delicious. If anyone in this thread has a Polish friend they're willing to trade me I can offer a Greek, Serbian or El Salvadorian friend in return.

[Anonymous No.20067843]

>>20050849
why do you say this when Spain exists?

[Anonymous No.20067949]

Overall, a bit like British food. Not much in the spice department (though they do like their Marjoram), but when nicely done, very filling and tasty.

[Anonymous No.20068504]

>>20067949
Funnily enough one of the most popular spices in Poland, allspice, is named after the English.

[Anonymous No.20068909]

>>20048255
Hearty, traditional, regional, tasty, white.
Just like Europe should be.

Gołąbki and Pierogi z kapustą i grzybami master race.
If you come to this shithole (You) should definitely try gołąbki. But only with cabbage and shrooms, the meat aren't as good nor the one with cheese/potato filling.
Bigos is so fucking kurwa overrated, it's literally waste meat threw into a huge fucking bucket with sour cabbage and some basic spices and shrooms, most if not almost every polish traditional dish is better.
Especially gołąbki aka cabbage rolls with a filling of grounded meat + rice.
It's fucking delicious.
You can fry them or bake them, eat with tomato sauce or without, if you happened to be around this shithole definitely get gołąbki.
pic related my shit taste.

[Anonymous No.20068920]

>>20048255
Hearty, traditional, regional, tasty, white.
Just like Europe should be.

Gołąbki and Pierogi z kapustą i grzybami master race.
If you come to this shithole (You) should definitely try pierogi. But only with cabbage and shrooms, the meat one aren't as good nor the one with cheese/potato filling.
Bigos is so fucking kurwa overrated, it's literally waste meat threw into a huge fucking bucket with sour cabbage and some basic spices and shrooms, most if not almost every polish traditional dish is better.
Especially gołąbki aka cabbage rolls with a filling of grounded meat + rice.
It's fucking delicious.
You can fry them or bake them, eat with tomato sauce or without, if you happened to be around this shithole definitely get gołąbki.
pic related my shit taste.

[Anonymous No.20069494]

>>20067785
>El Salvadorian
underrated food desu, direct upgrade from mexican

[Anonymous No.20069508]

>>20048286
they had it rough, cut them some slack
*nglo on the other hand...

[Anonymous No.20069540]

>>20068920
>waste meat threw into a huge fucking bucket with sour cabbage and some basic spices and shrooms
none of that sounds unappealing to me, you're not some queer that hates sauerkraut are you?

[Anonymous No.20071070]

>>20068920
sounds like you've never had good bigos bro. deluxe bigos with borowiki mushrooms, good meat, maybe some prunes and slow-cooked over days until it's all brown and caramelised is divine. if you take shortcuts or use bad ingredients, yes, you end up with slop. but good bigos is like pierogi z kapustą i grzybami but better
meat pierogi can be good too, just depends on how you make them
I'd bring grochówka and krupnik down, just typical peasant slop soups really. but definitely agree with barszcz z uszkami, placki ziemniaczane z gulaszem and devolay being top tier. Devolay is more of an eastern dish though I guess

[Anonymous No.20073314]

>>20048255
as bland and bloated as Polish Pussy