Taste of “Laughter is brightest, where food is best!”

A Taste of Krakow and Malopolska Favorites….

Welcome Malgorzata Bondyra and Michael Carnahan! They bring their talents to one of Zgoda’s most popular sections. Malgorzata’s culinary skills make easy to prepare and make. Michael’s photographs makes the food come to life. Together they present the food from the kitchens of Poland to your home. Make sure to invite the friends and neighbors because the food is sure to impress.

ZRAZY WOŁOWE • A few baby carrots or a ( ROLLS) handful thickly shredded 4. Repeat until all meat is rolled. carrots - optional 5. Heat some oil (enough to cover • Finely chopped dill the bottom of the frying pan) on • Heavy whipping cream medium high heat. • Other spices of your choice 6. Carefully place the beef rolls • Saran wrap into the hot oil and fry on both • toothpicks sides until browned nicely. • and pepper for taste 7. Take the meat out, and in the same oil, fry chopped onion STEPS: until golden brown. 1. Slice meat into thin slices 8. Return the meat to the pan, add against the grain. some water and bring it to boil. 2. Pound each meat slice on both Reduce heat to low, cover, and sides and then salt and pepper let simmer for 1 hour until soft. both sides of each piece. Ingredients: • 1.5-2 pound piece of beef (it needs to be sliced later) • 1 red or orange bell pepper – cut into thin strips • 1 onion – cut into strips • 2-3 cucumbers in brine – cut into long strips • Smoked – cut into 3. Place one strip each of bell pep- strips per, onion, cucumber in brine, 9. Add salt and pepper to taste • Salt, pepper and bacon on one piece of meat (and other desired spices). • Toothpicks and roll it, tucking the sides Thicken the sauce with a • Oil for frying inside, and secure the roll with mixture of water and flour to • 1 chopped onion one or two toothpicks. desired consistency. • Flour and Water slurry for 10. Add some heavy whipping thickening sauce cream, chopped dill, carrots and • 1 red, orange or yellow fresh bell peppers. Simmer for pepper cut into long strips - 2-3 minutes more, and serve. optional

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OBWARZANKI KRAKOWSKIE KREMÓWKA PAPIESKA (Papal Cream Cake)

Ingredients: • 1 pack of puff pastry sheets (2 sheets) • 2 cream-flavored pudding packets (budyṅ 7. After 20 minutes divide the Ingredients: śmietankowy) dough into 6 pieces. • 100 ml (3.4 ounces) warm • 0.5 liter (2 ¼ cups) milk 8. Roll each piece with your hands water • 3-4 tablespoons sugar • 100 ml (3.4 ounces) warm into about an 18-inch rope. • 250 grams (2 sticks + milk 9. Grab in in the middle and start 2 tablespoons) softened • 50 grams (1.75 ounces) fresh twisting both parts together. unsalted butter yeast or (2) ¼-ounce packets Shape into a hoop and connect • 250 grams (1 ¼ cups) dry yeast ends together. Repeat with re- heavy whipping cream • ½ teaspoon salt maining pieces of dough. • 1 packet vanilla sugar • Pinch of sugar 10. Place each obwarzanek into (0.18 ounces) • 100 grams (3.5 ounces) boiling water and boil for 1-2 • 3 tablespoons powdered softened butter minutes. sugar • 500 grams (about 3 cups) 11. Place each obwarzanek on a • Additional powdered flour, sifted baking sheet lined with parch- sugar to dust the pastry • 1 egg, beaten ment paper. after baking • Poppy seeds or sesame seeds 12. Brush each obwarzanek with beaten egg and sprinkle with STEPS: STEPS: your choice of poppy or sesame 1. Preheat oven to 400º F. 1. Combine yeast, water, milk and seeds. 2. Prepare pudding according sugar and let stand for 10-15 to the directions on the pack- minutes. age, but use only 2 ¼ cups of 2. Prepare a large pot of water for milk and add 3-4 tablespoons boiling the obwarzanki. of sugar. Allow to cool. 3. Combine sifted flour, softened 3. Prepare puff pastry sheets ac- butter and yeast mixture. cording to the directions on 4. Mix together and knead the the package. Before baking, dough. cut each sheet into 12 (or 5. Preheat oven to 400º F. less) equal rectangular pieces. 6. Cover it with clean cloth and 13. Place obwarzanki in the pre- 4. Bake at 400º F for 15 min- leave it to rise for 20 minutes in heated oven and bake for 20 utes or until golden in color. a warm place. minutes or until golden in color. Allow to cool.

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5. Divide each shell into two halves 10. Cover the cream-filled – top and bottom pieces. bottom pastry with the top PNA Council 21 portion of the shell and sprinkle heavily with powder and Technology sugar using a mesh strainer to distribute it evenly. Secret to our success! 11. Place kremówki on a platter, and place them in the refrig- With the future in mind, we have erator. embraced new technology and 12. Remove kremówki from the trends for our advantage. Council refrigerator about 20 minutes 21’s Facebook page was created in before serving. 2016. It started slow, but we realized that we were missing an opportuni- ty to reach to people. We regularly started posting our events, sharing posts and events of other Polish or- ganizations, and frequently sharing 6. Beat heavy whipping cream with posts of interest, such as those from vanilla sugar until stiff, and at the PNA’s Facebook page. the end of beating add 3 table- We updated our website, estab- spoons of powdered sugar and lished an email list via a service beat some more. called MailChimp. These avenues 7. Add butter to the pudding and allow us to share information in an mix it until nicely combined and inexpensive, efficient manner. We fo- smooth. cus on the two-fold Core Mission of 8. Add heavy whipping cream PNA: to recruit new members and mixture to the pudding and mix These recipes come from the to promote our amazing Polish cul- it together. kitchen of Malgorzata Bondyra ture. We post links to join our email 9. Place filling in a pastry bag (or of Baltimore, Maryland and list, to “like” our Facebook page, place in a zip top bag and cut PNA Council 21. Michael and to visit our website. For the off one corner to make your Carnhan has made videos greatest exposure, we encourage all own pastry bag) and fill bottom showing how to prepare and members to share our posts, to invite others to like the page, and share part of pastry shells with cream make these tasty Polish dishes. Check out PNA Council 21 them in various Facebook groups, mixture. such as “Baltimore Polonia.” website for these recipes and more! It has dramatically increased attention to our efforts bringing in https://pnacouncil21. many new members and guests - com/zgodarecipes who we hope to make members! Our Facebook following grows every Smacznego! day, from just a few people to now, more than 500 followers. Our email Recipes and preparation by list has become enormous. We en- Malgorzata Bondyra courage all PNA councils and lodges to do the same, reap the benefits. Photos by Michael Carnahan It’s up to us to make it happen and spread the good word about the PNA.

By Michael Carnahan PNA Council 21

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