Early Christmas Dinner

Yesterday we started our day as a cleaning day. Vacuum cleaned the whole place etc. Nothing interesting to write about.

However, after we finished cleaning things got interesting! Ola invited us and Julia to her place to have a Christmas-ish Dinner with traditional Polish foods and to make the dinner international I made puliszka which is the Hungarian version of polenta. 

Although a traditional Polish Christmas Dinner has 12 dishes (yes, twelve !) we only had 5ish — I believe the Christmas Dinner is the last dinner Polish people have in the year, because I can’t imagine how could they think about food for a very long time after 12 dishes! Anyway our fist dish was beetroot soup with tiny pierogis filled with forest mushrooms(?). I genuinely don’t like beetroot, my family loves a beetroot salad, however I hate it. I hate it so much I had to say it twice in my previous sentence! Hooweeeverrrr this soup was nothing like the beetroot I know. It tasked like a dream! It may sound absurd but it felt like I was drinking a steak. The flavors had the most magnificent flavor-dance in my mouth. My first sip of that thing was like an instant mind-blow. Absolutely amazing! And when I thought things couldn’t get any better, I had came across one of those tiny pirogi-badboys. The mushroom in it felt so intensive, by biting it I felt like I was in a different world. — Recalling the whole scene I’ve kinda started wondering what kind of mushrooms were they haha —



After the amazing soup it was time for the real size pirogies — kinda dumplings if you haven’t been around since the beginning of the blog. Although there are many great kinda pirogies these one were the best of the best, they were filled with cabbage and oh boy. They were tastebud killers! I found myself obsessed with cabbage for the last few months maybe? Ever since we’ve first ate cabbage here I can’t get enough of it! It’s really that good! 

After this we had some fish I believe I should’ve eaten it for starter, but I was so excited for the soup I had to change the order. Shameful I know but I can’t recall what fish it was, however it tasted good with oil, onions, and — being a Polish dish — lot of pepper. 

After the fish we’ve gone Hungarian and puliszka was the next dish. Surprisingly the girls liked it — or they were just to kind to admit it was the worst than anything they’ve ever had. Or maybe it was really not that bad. I know for sure it was the best puliszka I’ve ever made even though it was the second time doing it all by myself, so it’s really not that big of an accomplishment. 

At this point I had terrible stomachache hence I headed home to chill a bit. When I got back the girls were already done with lunch, they were playing games. Fortunately no one was that tired so I had the opportunity to play with them a few rounds.

It was a great evening, we had amazing dishes and amazing company, I think we couldn’t have asked for better mentors as we have! If you are coming to Warsaw on Erasmus you should hope you get these girls!

That was our day, hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and see you next time. Take care!

Almos

 

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