Last week our cooking class prepared Polish dishes after having had the lecture one week before. After my sometimes very serious presentation about the Polish people and their sufferings, of which a high percentage was caused by the German people, and my earnest emphasis of their great cultural influence I think the students were looking forward to some more fun kind of class again! ;) The dishes I picked for the Polish week were for one Pierogi- a very typical and popular dish in Poland, especially on Christmas as far as I know. The Pierogi are actually very like the Chinese typical dumplings and could also be described as filled noodles. What is very different though is that we filled them with sauerkraut and mushrooms- no meat because I am vegetarian, a pity for the students^^. The Poles are very similar to the Germans in that regard and like to eat sauerkraut rather a lot, and I for my part totally understand them. We served the Pierogi with sour cream which is a real good combination in my opinion and of course you can also fry them after cooking (also very tasty) just like the dumplings in Taiwan. The sweet dish we mad is called Krusczyki- but don't ask me about the pronunciation, I have no idea^^! And people say that German is difficult! Well the special thing about the Krusczyki is their shape, as they look like, or should look like if you get it right, bowties. The dough contains a lot of eggs and the pastry is fried in hot oil instead of being cooked. For the finish you just have to spread icing sugar over the Krusczykis- it looks really pretty! We also experimented with jam and Nutella as a dip-it is really delicious- but I am not sure what a real Pole would say to that^^! To sum it up I was really happy and proud of the students, because everything went so well and the dishes really looked-and I hope- tasted like they should. I am confident that hey will be real chefs at the end of the course! Some of the students proved to be dumpling-producing machines- they were done in a matter of minutes, and I recommended them to start at the night market^^! Regarding these results I am sure the project Bohemian dumplings next week will be no problem! link to https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OKe ... -XI/s640/1334045757_0.jpg link to https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f_x ... P0Q/s512/1334045793_0.jpg link to https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Pku ... TWQ/s512/1334046881_0.jpg link to https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AVn ... ZTQ/s512/1334046930_0.jpg link to https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g3J ... 7MM/s512/1334045885_0.jpg link to https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-XZX ... cU8/s512/1334045917_0.jpg link to https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3gS ... v5E/s512/1334045975_0.jpg link to https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M-K ... 2OU/s512/1334046017_0.jpg link to https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gKb ... IPo/s640/1334046047_0.jpg link to https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gAz ... VTg/s640/1334046085_0.jpg link to https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_r_ ... w04/s512/1334046124_0.jpg link to https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lUK ... zTo/s512/1334046156_0.jpg link to https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ORI ... 235_0%2520%25281%2529.jpg link to https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bAJ ... 56s/s640/1334046263_0.jpg