We are delighted to report that eating out in Poland can be very cheap, especially if you choose traditional Polish dishes - and who wouldn't want to do so? - after all you can't go to Poland and eat fish & chips!
Because it is such good value, there is no reason not to eat our for lunch as well as for dinner. As far as we're concerned, eating lunch out beats making sandwiches any day and provides a proper rest for aching legs (it also offers the opportunity to have a nice cold beer!)
We tried quite a lot of Polish lunch dishes but our favourite was bigos which we're eating in our picture. Bigos is Poland's national dish and is also known as hunters stew (quite appropriate for bears we thought). Incidentally, have we told you that there are bears in the Tatra mountains which surrounded us as we cycled? Sadly we didn't see any but this may have had something to do with the fact that we tried to avoid cycling too far uphill into the mountains.
Back to bigos! It is a savoury stew of sauerkraut, cabbage and meat, including lots of Polish sausage in a lovely tomato-y sauce and you eat it with fresh bread. It's simply delicious and as we have just looked up the recipe on the internet we can have a go at making it at home.
While we were searching for a recipe we found a bigos poem that we rather liked and thought we might share with you.
"Bigos is no ordinary dish,
For it is aptly framed to meet your wish.
Founded upon good cabbage, sliced and sour,
Which, as men say, by its own zest and power
Melts in one's mouth, it settles in a pot
And its dewy bosom folds a lot
Of the best portions of selected meats;
Scullions parboil it then, until heat
Draws from its substance all the living juices,
And from the pot's edge, boiling fluid sluices
And all the air is fragrant with its scent."
Adam Mickiewicz - Pan Tadeusz (1834)
Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx
2 comments:
We're a bit concerned that Yorkie didn't look like he could reach the contents of the bowl! Was it as nice as pickled jalapeno and pickled red cabbage sarnies - our current favourite? On the subject of bread, we are just off to buy a new toaster as brekkie bagels this morning proved its death knell! Panda assures us he had nothing to do with this toaster's demise!
Bye for now!
Gosh, what delicious sounding and original sarnies, Aunty M, we must give them a try. Perhaps inserting a bit of Polish sausage would make them even better. We'll be talking more about Polish sausage soon.
Love George & Yorkie xxx
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