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Post by concerned on Oct 31, 2009 16:29:42 GMT -5
damn i am hungry/ That pot of Wedding Soup is very tempting. My Aunt makes that every Thanksgiving and she is 89. I thing she lives on it during the rest of the year.
If you cook the dandelion greens in a little boiling water then flash chill them in a ice and water solution it will take the bitterness out of them. Also if you can get swiss chard that works well for the" gressy greens" I make a stew or soup of them with white kidney beans.
Saute onion, garlic and Italian sausage in olice oil---use the loose sausage and add the garlic( I use 4 chopped cloves) just after the sausage browns. Add a can of drained white kidney or garbonzo beans. saute for a few minutes and then add some low sodium chicken stock( at this point you can add any amount of stock depending on how thick or thin you want the stew to be) you can also add hot cherry peppers just before you add the stock. Get a BIG loaf of garlic bread and enjoy. A nice red wine is good with this or use the Jewish wine--sold in the Jewish section of grocery store--it has no alcohol.
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Post by concerned on Oct 31, 2009 16:33:02 GMT -5
Here is a webiste I had found recently and have been following. The guy is from Albany and just got his Dr degree as a chiropractor. He use to compete in body building and has some good recipes (healthy ones) and of course is Polish so has some of those too. ;D Its a fun read too. bakingwithdynamite.blogspot.com/Thanks for that website i love Polish food. |
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Post by Clipper on Oct 31, 2009 16:43:33 GMT -5
Grandma Browns is not sold anywhere here in the South. Their idea of baked beans here is with tomato sauce like canned pork and beans, or cooked in water with hambone or pork hock and onions, and served in a bowl with cornbread on the side. More like what we New Yorkers would call bean soup. I love Grandma Browns with a little vinegar, or a little ketchup. My grandpa always put just a hint of cider vinegar on his beans. When we lived up there I also made them sometimes with a ring of keilbasa cut up in slices and baked with the beans, along with a little brown sugar and some minced onions. I like the other kind of beans too, like Bush's in a can. I cut up hotdogs and dice and onion in them and make a baked casserole for a lunch or like a soup on a cold day. Eat a big old bowl of those beans, grab a Glade Plug-in to put in the wall plug next to my chair and relax.   |
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Post by bobbbiez on Oct 31, 2009 19:30:39 GMT -5
 Chris, thanks for the recipe website. I'm checking it out and finding a lot of different dishes I can try. Especially want to try out the Oatmeal Cake. That looks and sounds really good.  As far as Pulaski's Meat Mkt, that's been there since I was a little girl and I know I'm much older then you. Pulaski's was on one corner and the bar/rest was across the street. If I remember correctly it started with an "H" and I think it was called Heintz's. It is now Sparagna's Rest. A block away, down the street on Lenox Ave, was Vogel's Bakery which is no longer there. It was a Polish Bakery for a while but that also closed. All were real good places but Pulaski's has lasted the longest. Still going just as strong. Take a number and stand in line busy. ;D
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Post by Clipper on Oct 31, 2009 21:08:29 GMT -5
Vogel's had the most awesome rye bread in the city after the fire on Lincoln Ave burned the other Polish bakery.
I worked with a man named Frank Baron years ago, when I drove a truck for Bekins Moving and Storage. When we went over the road, his wife would dry keilbasa from Pulaski in the oven, and send us with fresh rye bread, dried kielbasa, and home made Polish pickles. The truck would smell like garlic for a week afterwards, haha.
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Post by bobbbiez on Oct 31, 2009 22:16:53 GMT -5
Yes, you're speaking of Bazan's Bakery. Just down the street from Holy Trinity Church. On Sundays after Mass my parents would stop there for their baked goods. They were awesome! My favorite was their cheesecakes.  Very, very sad when the grandmother died in that set fire and the bakery never re-opened. 
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Post by chris on Nov 1, 2009 13:02:19 GMT -5
Ive been to Tony Sparagnas. Remember Bazans, Vogels kind of sounds familiar. I'm mostly an East Utican. Did not cross to the other side as much. Maybe that's why I don't remember Pulaski's.
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Post by bobbbiez on Nov 1, 2009 13:19:57 GMT -5
Chris, you are so right. Back then, we from one side of the city did not venture much to the other. That's just the way it was.......that imaginary line on Genesee St. BUT, I did my sneaking. That's how I ended up marrying an Italian from the east side. ;D
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Post by Clipper on Nov 1, 2009 17:49:03 GMT -5
Back then Sunshine we didn't need to go from one side of town to the other to find many of the things we needed. There were neighborhood grocery stores, bakeries and meat markets on all sides of town.
I was always glad that my grandmother shopped the way she did. We would make a day of it. We would take a bus from Whitesboro to Downtown. She would get groceries at Carrock's, Chanatry's or the Mohican, and stop for bread at Hemstroughts. I would get a slice of pizza and a toy from Neisners or Woolworth's and a box of popcorn or caramel corn from the Karmel Korn shop. Carrocks and Chanatry used to deliver your groceries. We would stop at Hapanowicz's on Columbia Square on the way home for meats. Milk was delivered to the door by Sunshine Dairy on Court St. and bread was delivered from Hathaway's Bakery.
They had a car, but they only drove on weekends to come to our house in Barneveld. They bought the weeks eggs for both their house and ours from a minister and his wife in Stittville along with honey, as the minister was also a beekeeper.
Everything seemed to taste better and be of higher quality back then. Food shopping was not such a rushed and automatic thing. People actually went out of their way to shop for quality as well as price.
Neighborhoods were wonderful places in our day Sunshine and Chris. We could walk to a store for a quart of milk or a loaf of bread. We always could buy a few pieces of penny candy while we were there. We could walk to a store or drug store to get an ice cream soda or an ice cream cone. The fruit and veggie guy came around selling his stuff off the back of a truck, and you could grab a banana for a nickel.
It makes me sad to think that kids in modern times miss out on all of that. They know nothing but malls and microwave snacks. They don't walk ANYWHERE anymore, in fact they seldom even go outside to play. Other than familiies that keep their kids involved in athletics and little league and such, kids don't move away from the tv and the playstation anymore.
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Post by chris on Nov 1, 2009 21:01:13 GMT -5
Oh the good ole days. Yes it would be grat if we had some of those things back then now. In my neighborhood, there was Trevasani's on Kossuth. My mom use to send me to the store all the time to the Polish store on Nichol St for bread (why was it always on my lunch hour) Devitos was across the street too and directly across was a small Italian bakery that I would get fresh bread from in the morning... I can taste that toasted bread now. On the corner of Hubble was the Corner Store...changed hands alot but always the same. Last owners were Frank and Angie. When ever we would get some money my GF and I would take a walk down Bleecker St to Caruso's and spend it all on canoli's. One day it rained, our bag got wet and as we were running home the bag broke and the canoli's went flying all over Bleecker St. Damm what a waste.
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Post by bobbbiez on Nov 1, 2009 22:07:25 GMT -5
Chris, you should have used the three-second rule on the dropped canolis. Works for me. ;D
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Chris, thanks for the recipe website. I'm checking it out and finding a lot of different dishes I can try. Especially want to try out the Oatmeal Cake. That looks and sounds really good. 
