http://www.kuchnia.com.pl/DiD/ryby_karpie.html
- in Polish,
and all about carp, but of course the wider site has lots of good stuff
too. My carp 'epiphany' came late in life - last Christmas, inappropriately
for epiphany but very appropriately for wigilia. I love carp - the
worst thing about it being its triangular barbed bones, like something
out of Jurassic Park. You could easily die. Mine was done in
Polish-Jewish style in cream, wine, tomatoes, almonds and raisins, and
it was just, just excellent. You could die. Now I'm intrigued
enough to try carp in aspic - as soon as I can get another carp, that is.
Carp fishermen in the UK get very upset if you eat the fish they like to
pull out of the water and put back. Again and again. Dozens
of times. Well I got mine from a fish farm, guys, so if any of your
precious fish are missing, blame me for my attitude, but nothing else.
If any of you farmers want to sell me one, [email protected] is where
you can find me.
http://www.bigosbar.com
- bigos is one
of THE archetypal Polish dishes - you can't know Polish food without knowing
it. I don't describe bigos here, because these guys, Richard Janecki
and Mike Oborski, do it better, and with a sense of humour. Highly
recommended.
http://www.gastronomie.pl/przepisy.phtml
- of course, it can't
be true, but this site feels like its made of plastic. However, if
you can get past this and the occasional plasti-Polish, there are some
excellent Polish-fusion dishes here. Worth a look even if you don't
speak Polish but know about Polish ingredients, because there are some
featured recipes from national restaurant competitions which you could
figure out using a dictionary. Viva capitalism!
http://www.polstore.com/html/polishrecipes.html
- I don't like
it! This is basically an advertisement for a food distributor, and
the recipes call for "a can of this, a tin of that, a squirt of ketchup"
and it's often branded goods. Now I've started, I'll add that the
recipe for bigos begins "from a secret family recipe...". Not much
of a secret, is it? And, Saints Alive, they actually tell you to
"dump in a SMALL can of tomato paste or tomato sauce. Stir.".
I'm glad my top-secret internet family recipes don't have anything dumped
in them. At least they tell you to stir, and not - perish the thought
- leave it dumped but unstirred. ; They used to have a good Polish-English
dictionary of herbs, which I liked it very much, but which I now can't
find at the site. There's not much left to recommend it, I'm afraid.
Down with capitalism!
http://www.polishnews.com/fulltext/chef/2001/chef63_1.shtml
- I like it!
Page after page of tidbits about Polish food, restaurants and recipes.
Uses largely American-style ingredients, which is excellent if you live
in America, but this is a good resource for first-version recipes you can
work on in your own time, wherever you happen to live.
http://www.outernetweb.com/recipes/index.html
- this guy doesn't
seem to gave an Email address, but is generous in offering recipes in his
grandmother's memory. There's a great recipe there for a cold version
of rolled stuffed beef. If he's reading this, I can help with the
translation!
http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Game/Kaczka.Pieczona.z.Jablkami.(Roast.Duck).html
- wow.
The URL even has a set of parentheses. This is a bran tub of recipes,
but has a few gems, like this one.
http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/poland/kielbasa.html
- I wish I knew what
to think of this site - it looks alternately good and bad. There
are some amazing recipes for really traditional cheeses which, to me with
my modern bias, sound like a quick way to food poisoning. The link
above is to an intriguing recipe for home-made sausage which uses crushed
ice for some reason, but doesn't specify the temperature of the meats -
is it room temperature or refrigerator? The site's carelessly put
together, though, which makes me uneasy as to whether the recipes are worked
through properly. Perhaps I'm being unfair, I don't know. Might
be worth a try?
http://www.kuchnia.3miasto.pl/index.php3
- in Polish,
and a brilliant compendium of recipes compiled by Mariusz Marczak from
pl.rec.kuchnia. I think the assumption is made that the readership
can cook, so it doesn't major on traditional recipes, but contains some
really interesting twists on these. Seems intermittently down, in
which case try its mirror http://www.bytow.pl/kuchnia/index.htm