What's for dinner?

[ZAPPER]

Well funny you should ask!

This Easters menu at the Zapper homestead.

Stuffed cabbage rolls, sometimes called (gah-wum-kee or ha-lube ka) depending on your roots and how it was passed down.
A mixture of pork and beef with onions, rice, and other savories mixed in, rolled in cabbage leaves and cooked with kraut, tomato and a little stock. yum yum!


Roast lamb
Laaaaaaaammmmmmb, what else is there to say? Well actually we are gonna try one of the store bought premaranaded jobs this year, I intend to rinse off as much salt as I can.

Pierogi
A Polish version of Italian ravioli or Chineese dumplings.
Some filled with kraut, some with potato and some with a mushroom filling and all with a touch of saute'ed onions and served in a melted butter sure to give the health wise a heart attack!

Cucumbers and sour cream. A family tradition, the Polish cookbook calls it "Mizeria ze Smietanq" But our way goes a little beyond. Cucumbers sliced with onions tossed with sour cream, a dash of vinergar, a sprinkling of dill and salt and a big plate to eat it off of!

A little bit of Ham, precooked store bought, but ham just the same, sliced thin to make it strech just a little further and easier to chew.


An assortment of sides and salads like Deviled Eggs (usually made from pickeled eggs, but the pickeled eggs have been in the fridge since Xmas and I am a little scared) A big Greek style salad bowl with extra feta cheese and pepperoncini peppers. Man I am hungry! Time to sneak off with a few Steamed shrimp and the cocktail sause!




So What Is on the menue at your place?

[Lucifers_Ghost]

DAYUM .. I should have come to your place for dinner ....

[budz]

Geez, ZAPPER how many you feeding?

Homemade Apricot Glazed ham (made w/smuckers sugar free apricot preserves & prepared mustard), NY steak, baked yams, gon lo mein (chinese noodles made with charsiu pork, choi sum (green vegetable), lil garlic with soy sauce all stir fried in a hot wok), chinese peking duck w/bun and plum sauce and corn on the cob. Fresh custard and pumpkin pie.

[thecoalman]

Pierogi
A Polish version of Italian ravioli or Chineese dumplings.
Some filled with kraut, some with potato and some with a mushroom filling and all with a touch of saute'ed onions and served in a melted butter sure to give the health wise a heart attack!

Homemade store bought Pierogi's if that makes sense. The area here is heavy Italian and Polish ancestry so why boxed when you could purchase the real thing. It's big thing for summer Bazzars and Church sales.

May I ask where is the kielbasi since I see other things I'm accustomed too? You can get that fresh or smoked year round here. :P Big spoonful of horseradish and Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Not anything like that glorified hot dog hillshire calls kielbasi .

[ZAPPER]

Pierogis from scratch, used up a 2lb bag of flour. I got them little bastards all over. They will last a couple of more days unless I take a batch to work. Next time I think I will just go with a box or two of Mrs "T"s from the frozen food isle. Back home the old churches used to have pierogis on like one Friday a month, The first Friday we could hit the Greek Orthodox, the next we could hit the Russian Orthodox, the next would be St somebody and the following St someone else. The funny thing is that the same handful of little old ladies was making the rounds of the churches and making pierogi for all of them!

Kielbasa! I knew that there was something missing! Nah, I like it, but to be honest it is kind of hard to find good keilbasa round these parts. I am a long way from where I grew up and used to buy like ten pounds frozen when ever I was back home and bring it down here. But even the old Polish butcher shops back home have pretty much faded away. I will try to make some someday but I will have to talk a couple of folks into splitting the cost and work.

The cabbage rolls are going into the freezer for future meals and the rest of the stuff is going into the fridge until about Wed or Thur when we finally just burn out on it or it is gone. We don't get to cook every night, so the left overs will be a premade meal for atleast a couple of nights

Ooooh! I think I ate too much. Oooohhh.

[BJ_M]

Crêpes aux Fruits de Mer
smoked turkey breast
moose / pork / venison / potato sausage
Pommes de terre en croûte de sel petites
chocolate fruit fondue
Wolf Blass 2004 Yellow Label Shiraz/Cabernet

[thecoalman]

I thi8nk same old ladies are the same ones up here.

But even the old Polish butcher shops back home have pretty much faded away. I will try to make some someday but I will have to talk a couple of folks into splitting the cost and work.

If you ever diving through the Wyoming Valley on 81 you can pretty much get off any exit and find a place if you ask anyone, they even have a Kielbasa Fiestival in the one town. I'll assume you're travelling 81 or 95? If it's 81 let me know I can even set you up with some directions. We've made our own before, deer kilebasa. Usually cut it about 70% pork. A lot of work but a lot of fun, the mandatory ingredient you need is a keg of beer.

[ZAPPER]

I have helped make sausage before, but never been the money, brains and labor all at the same time.

So what are you using for casings? Natural or callogen? Do you mix in crushed ice?


I also got a craveing for doing up some pastrami.

My biggest problem, other than the universal lack of money, is that I can't schedule anything because work is so helter skelter.

[Noahtuck]

A day late but...

Turkey (full bird)
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Turkey Gravy
Candied Yams
Cranberrie (sauce)
Green Been casoroul ?
Rolls
Peach Pie
Pumkin Pie

For 4 people....
We all had Easter dinner again tonight

Are you sure it was not thanksgiving ??

[SquirrelDip]

A day late but...

Turkey (full bird)
Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Turkey Gravy
Candied Yams
Cranberrie (sauce)
Green Been casoroul ?
Rolls
Peach Pie
Pumkin Pie

For 4 people....
We all had Easter dinner again tonight

Are you sure it was not thanksgiving ??

Sounds like our dinner - 'cept swap brussel sprouts for the yams...