Food like it used to taste... a HUGE discovery...

Charlton_King

I'll look out for the pork thing.

What we tried lately was called "pierogi" - like large ravioli and with different fillings. They came frozen in a packet but I guess would be possible to make your own. Just a case of dropping them in a pan of boiling water.

The ones we had were with sour cheese filling and we had them, as recommended, with some fried onion and a touch of melted butter on top. Absolutely delicious. We've also got some with a mushroom and sauerkraut filling and will be trying that next week.

skipton

It seems very strange that people are only just discovering 'Polish shops'. As a teenager some 40 years ago I worked in my uncles delicatessen. Most of our stock was European.We sold Krakus jams, dill pickles, bread, vodka, meats especially smoked pork tenderloin and salami. The polish poppyseed cakes were good too.
We used to get told off for testing the sliwka (plums in chocolate) every time we went down into the stockroom . Try the polish fudge sweets....fresh ones should be slightly liquid in the middle.

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my mum made pierogi every time we had visitors for a celebration. They were my all time favourite food. We had them with a tasty cooked meat filling, made like dumplings from a circle of dough and dropped into a pan of boiling water, they rose and were cooked, soon afterwards they were fried to golden on each side. In summer we picked lots of wild bilberries and we had pierogis cooked (not fried) with bilberries inside, we had them with tinned cream (1950s/60s). They are very easy to make CK

I have a batch of sauerkraut on the go right now, weighed down with special stones under a lid with a water trap. We were brought up on sauerkraut and also on sour milk, this was non pasturised and non homogenised in the old days, it must have been turned into something like kefir, no wonder we are still so relatively healthy

Skipton, sliwka were so lovely. Also easy to make. Poppyseed cake, I haven`t eaten that for a long time. Lovely cheesecake, nothing like what is called cheesecake in the supermarkets.

Charlton_King

kittie wrote: »

my mum made pierogi every time we had visitors for a celebration. They were my all time favourite food. We had them with a tasty cooked meat filling, made like dumplings from a circle of dough and dropped into a pan of boiling water, they rose and were cooked, soon afterwards they were fried to golden on each side. In summer we picked lots of wild bilberries and we had pierogis cooked (not fried) with bilberries inside, we had them with tinned cream (1950s/60s). They are very easy to make CK

I have a batch of sauerkraut on the go right now, weighed down with special stones under a lid with a water trap. We were brought up on sauerkraut and also on sour milk, this was non pasturised and non homogenised in the old days, it must have been turned into something like kefir, no wonder we are still so relatively healthy

Skipton, sliwka were so lovely. Also easy to make. Poppyseed cake, I haven`t eaten that for a long time. Lovely cheesecake, nothing like what is called cheesecake in the supermarkets.

A shame that I wasn't brought up in any similar tradition. Anyway, I'm a convert to pierogis and will be seeing if they can't be made at home!

Farway

skipton wrote: »

It seems very strange that people are only just discovering 'Polish shops'. As a teenager some 40 years ago I worked in my uncles delicatessen. Most of our stock was European.We sold Krakus jams,ge sweets....fresh ones should be slightly liquid in the middle.

We loved the Krakus jams, cherry especially, bought it from local Co -op

kboss2010

I often find that small, local "world food" shops are excellent for many items you would spend an absolute fortune on in the big 4. I've bought my sauces in large bottles and noodles/rice/leafy greens/dim sum etc. from Chinese supermarkets for years, my spices and garlic from Indian/Bangladeshi food stores and my only bad experience has been the odd dodgy African food shop (the kind that smells like a rubbish dump for a fish factory when you walk in the door and has mouldy dried catfish in half of the fridges! - there are several in Aberdeen unfortunately!)

Hmmm... might have to try the local Polish shops.

katkin

Wish there was more variety near me. My favourite is an oriental speciality supermarket but it means a long drive and traipse into the city. Worth it a couple of times a year.
http://www.seewoo.com/glasgow

Great prices and lots of choice for spices, herbs and unusual supplies that make ordinary ingredients sublime. Bundles of fresh herbs are a bargain and I can freeze them. The fresh and frozen meats, fish and shelfish really good quality and value.

gt568

I'm intrigued by this. Never been in one of these polish shops, might give it a bash.

meritaten

Alan_Cross wrote: »

Just coming back to this one to say I couldn't give a flying xxxx about the 'food miles' when your friendly neighbourhood local big four supermarket makes next to zero effort to source things locally. How many times have I seen 'country of origin: Israel, Egypt, South Africa or Chile' on Mr Sainsbury's offerings..?

Exactly the same with Aldi and Lidl...

rofl - each to their own Alan. I did say I bought 'home grown' produce as I thought we were talking fresh veg etc. and I do make the effort to buy seasonal produce as local as I can get it. that's my gripe with some 'farm shops' - not all of them sell local only produce.

and Aldi and Lidl seem to go the extra mile to obtain British produce and meats. although I must admit to enjoying their continental 'delicacies'.
we don't have any Polish shops around here as far as I am aware.
I didn't mean to be judgemental either, you enjoy your Polish produce. that's the beauty of choice isn't it?

gayle1

laughs my boys love the polish food but other kiddies adverse to new things object aslong as my kids eat it who cares.
i will not buy meat from anywhere else now soo tempted to try the chinese shop on the way to glasgow 5 klo onions for 1.60