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Questions? Pytania?

Are pampuchy and kluski na parze the same thing? What’s the singular of pampuchy? pampuch? pampucha? And why do my leniwe pierogi require 4 times more flour than the recipe? Czy pampuchy i kluski na parze to to samo?…

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Rainbows, Rashes and Rye

Lizzie asked me yesterday in an exasperated voice, “Mommy, where’s that Spring and the rainbows?” She didn’t really believe me when I told her that Spring is on the way especially because I told her the same thing 2…

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Doughnut po polsku

Poradnik: How to eat a Polish doughnut A Polish doughnut called pączek is what we would call in America a filled doughnut. It should be large and round, about the the size of your fist with a kind of…

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Our 1st Wywiadówka

Today, I went to the 1st wywiadówka of Lizzie’s school career and the 1st in my mothering career. The turn-out was sad, only 2 parents made an appointment with the teacher out of the whole class, but so what,…

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Christmas Dishes

If you think that 4 dishes of carp (which I don’t like) is enough fish for my mother-in-law on Christmas Eve, then you would be wrong. There’s also herring which I also don’t like. Misiu and the girls love…

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Christmas Dishes: Carp

Misiu comes from the carp capital of Lower Silesia, so please keep what I am going to tell you next a secret because I may get run out of town….I hate carp. It’s not even the taste that I…

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Coffee or Tea?

Molly, my sister, and I fell out, And what do you think it was all about? She loved coffee and I loved tea, And that was the reason we couldn’t agree. -Mother Goose That’s one of Lizzie’s favorite poems.…