Russian, Ukrainian and Polish recipes

Simple and tasty recipe for collard greens. You can use raw greens or cook them. My wife is making this salad every here and there. It is pretty fulfilling but light and we usually have ii for lunch with a sandwich or soup. You can modify this recipe by adding fresh pepper, corn or olives. [...]

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Polish cooking is so large in scope it is beyond the imagination. Are you thinking ham, kielbasa and pierogi when it comes to Polish fare? Stop.  I live in Poland and do not eat a lot of that. I eat something like the new Polish diet. It is based on traditional cuisine and modifications.  Pick [...]

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Polish blood sausage When I young there were always a few traditional Polish foods that I was leery of. Polish blood sausage was not one of them. Why? I did not know it by its English name ‘blood sausage’.  My parents would just serve them up with onions and butter and under the Polish name [...]

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Poland has some of the richest soil in the world because it was once an ancient sea. The soil is black.  This is an excellent for growing nutrient rich herbs, both medicinal and for cooking.  The purpose of this post is to tell you the best place to buy herbs in Poland. Polish herbs for [...]

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Polish pancakes are called Naleśniki These Pancakes from Poland of their quite different and then American pancakes.  In fact then I first saw them I did not know what they were. American flat cakes use baking soda.  Polish pancakes are rather thin and flat without baking soda.  If you know what a French crepe is [...]

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Why not Mexican pierogies?  There is no reason a pierogi need to me stuffed with only potatoes and cheese.  You can put anything you like it it. Here is an example of a creative recipes. Mexican pierogies quick version This is simple: dough, filling and cooking. Just three steps to prepare. Mexican pierogies dough Flour [...]

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Almond milk Here is a simple way to make milk from Almonds: Take a handful of almonds and place them in water over night to soak.You do not actually have to do this, however, it softens them up a bit. How much water you can experiment with.  I soak about one handful in 2 cups [...]

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Pierogi healing One of the many reasons I like making Polish pierogies is it is good for me.  Let me explain, I am a computer programmer geek.  I work for very long hours, and I am either staring it at a computer screen, or typing on my blogs. By the end of the day my [...]

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Mrs t’s Pierogies review The purpose of this post is to tell give you a quick review of Mrs t’s pierogies. Why do I know anything about Polish pierogi? The reason is I am an American but I am also Polish, I live in Krakow, Poland.  And as you can guess, I love to make [...]

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Having lived in Poland for many year, I am an American I have noticed there there is an abundance of wild fruit, even in a big city like Krakow.   Poland has deep forests and fields everywhere. The fruit that I pick here in Poland not typically found in the US. Mini strawberries – These are [...]

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