Catholic Kermit

CULTURAL FOOD NIGHT — finally!  Tonight was POLISH food night!  Thanks especially to my Mother for her recipes and advice to START MONDAY (yesterday) … we barely finished by dinner time … the blessing of my wise Mother (and Mary, too).

Yesterday, we made the potato and cheese fillings, but spent most of the time working on the gołąbki (stuffed cabbage rolls).  Gołąbki is a hearty traditional Polish dish consisting of boiled cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef, chopped onions, and rice or barley, baked in a spicy tomato sauce; similar to a Cabbage roll.  By the time we stopped on Monday, we only had 1.3 pans full of them (we needed 3).

Today, in the morning, we started the desert with Ramon, our Dominican cook.  The desert was makowiec, a poppy seed roll, with a glaze or powdered sugar.  By lunch time, we had 3 pans of golabki ready to bake (at least 2 hours needed).  After lunch, we got more help from Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Panama, Austria & more to stuff and pinch hundreds of pierogi (stuffed dumplings) with potato and cheese (seperate).

Final phase was the delicate rolling of the poppy seed roll desert, makowiec.  We made 5 rolls with some experience from Randy & Ramon (I looked very administrative = more watch, less work).  With an extra special Vodka topping, it came out AWESOME (in every aspect of its “being”, including ontologically).  We also served some hot kielbasa (sausage).

Thank you to all who helped, especially my brothers in Christ (and Mom)!