Home-made Kisiel Recipe

Kisiel is a well-known Polish dessert. Usually one can buy ready-made powdered kisiels, but their taste can't even be compared to a home-made version.

Ingredients

- 1 lb of fresh strawberries

- 2 cups of cold water

- sugar to taste

- 2 tablespoons of potato flour and some cold water

1. First wash strawberries thoroughly, and get rid of the green tops. Then mash with a fork or cut into small pieces.
2. Transfer strawberries to a pan, cover with water, season with sugar to taste, and bring to a boil.
3. In the meantime dissolve potato flour in cold water and pour into the boiling strawberry mixture. Continue cooking, stirring frequently until kisiel mixture thickens up.

4. Best when served warm.

Spicy Jack Portobello Mushrooms

- 4-5 portobello mushrooms

- 1 whole egg yolk

- 1.5 - 2 tb of Italian breadcrumbs

- a few strips of bacon

- one small onion finely chopped

- spicy pepper jack cheese (a few slices)

- some olive oil for frying (but not much)

- salt and pepper

Wash mushrooms first, then pop put stems, chop them finely and put aside. Brown chopped onions and bacon pieces along with mushrooms stems. Transfer all these ingredients to a bowl. Add egg, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper. Combine and stir all these ingredients. Smear mixture into the cavity of each mushroom. Put some pepper jack cheese pieces on top of each mushroom. Bake at 356 F (180 C) degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

Polish Twarozek - Tvarog

Tvarog known also as 'bialy ser' is one of the most loved by the Polish people. Well, unfortunately is quite difficult to find the same flavor anywhere else in the world.It's not a ricotta type of cheese or cottage cheese. The closes version of white cheese good for tvarog that I found in the US is 'Farmers Cheese' available in Wholefoods Market stores.

White cheese 'aka' tvarog is used widely in the Polish cuisine (for cheese cakes, pancakes, dumplings, etc). It's also one of the most favorite stuff for breakfast sandwiches.

How to make a traditional Polish tvarozek?

Ingredients:

(Makes one serving)

Half of the Farmers' cheese package

1 tb of sour cream (can be light version)


(If the cream is too thick, add a few drops of milk and mix to make it less thick).

Salt and pepper to taste

Chopped chive

Other favorite toppings: chopped onion or radish - or both)

Put cheese, sour cream, chive onion in a bowl, then stir well to combine. Season with pepper and salt. Remember to adjust seasoning when necessary.

Serve with bread slices topped with jam and butter.

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