A national dish of Poland, bigos is a traditional one-pot meat-and-cabbage stew, often referred to as a “hunter’s stew” and usually made during the winter months or […]
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Brown Stone Front Cake
One of the most used, spotted, and worn recipe cards in my collection is in my Mom’s handwriting and it is for “”Brown Stone Front […]
It’s Polka Time
Block parties, fire hall weddings, church picnics, Sunday radio shows…what ties these all together in the Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania? Why, the polka of […]
Smalec (Polish Lard Spread)
Many of us here in the Coal Region well remember our grandparents or parents sitting down to enjoy a food from their childhood that we, […]
Kutya (Merry Orthodox Christmas!)
January 1st has come and gone. In many villages, towns, and cities, the curb sides are adorned with once-fresh Christmas trees still dripping with specks […]
Holiday Cheese Ball
Growing up in the early 1970’s. my parents and I made an annual pilgrimage “south” a couple weeks before Christmas day, weather permitting. We weren’t […]
