January 14th, 2010
PACZKI
Singular Noun is Paczek (pohn-check)
Plural Noun is Paczki (punch-key)
Paczki (punch-key) Day is the feast of plenty before the Lenten fast begins. It is the last day of gaiety in Karnawal time, the period between Christmas and Lent. This is the time for sleigh parties called Kulig. To mark the last moments of excess before the austerity of Lenten sacrifice, Polish Roman Catholics celebrate Paczki Day.
On this day the traditional deep fried pastries (something like jelly doughnuts) are enjoyed throughout the world’s Polonias. This joyous activity precedes the Gorzkie Zale (lamentation services) of Lent in Polonian churches. In Poland, Paczki Day takes place the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, called Tlusty Czwartek (Fat Thursday). Long lines form in front of the bakeries in Polonia, and millions of Paczki are sold.
In United States Polonia, Paczki Day takes place the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, traditionally called Fat Tuesday in Carnival. Polish American bakeries also supply Paczki in the hundreds of thousands that day. Often in American Polonia, Paczki Day is celebrated with polka dances. In Roman Catholic grammar schools throughout American Polonia, children enjoy Paczki at school on that day.”
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December 5th, 2009
S&D Polish Deli offers following Christmas bakery items :
Cheese Kolaczy $14.50 – round cake,
sweet yeast dough, dry curd farmers
cheese filling, approx. 12inch diameter
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December 5th, 2009
S&D Polish Deli
Www.sdpolishdeli.com
421-281-2906
2204 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15222
You are invited
Polish Christmas Event
Where : S&D Polish Deli , 2204 Penn Ave
When : Saturday, Dec 12
Time : 10.30 – 2.30
Complimentary Pierogi
and Kielbasy sampling
Live performance
Polish Christmas carols sang by
former member of Mazowsze group
Chance to place Christmas order
for Pierogi, Bakery items, Mushroom Soup
Kapusta and more
Come and enjoy Christmas spirit
In old fashioned Polish style
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December 4th, 2009
Wigilia
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia! That is the way to say “Merry Christmas” in Polish. Among Poles, wherever they are, the most beloved and beautiful of all traditional festivities is that of Christmas Eve. It is then that the Wigilia, or Christmas Eve Dinner is served. It is a solemnly celebrated occasion and arouses deep feelings of kinship among family members.
For days in advance, Poles prepare the traditional foods and everyone anxiously awaits the moment when the first star, known as the Gwiazdka, appears in the eastern sky. For that is when the feast to commemorate the birth of the Christ Child begins.
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November 5th, 2009
Although it was the Scots-Irish who put the yin in our yinz, and the Germans who gave us Iron City and whose descendants here claim ancestral ties more than any other European tribe, it’s hardly a reach to suggest that no ethnic groups are more closely associated with Pittsburgh than Eastern Europeans, specifically the Poles.
You’d hardly guess it by looking at the local culinary scene, which is dominated by Italian, Mediterranean and Asian fare (not that Munch is complaining).
S&D Polish Deli is at 2204 Penn Ave., Strip District. Call 412-281-2906 or visit sdpolishdeli.com for more information.
Perhaps it’s because Polish food is simpler, a bit heavy and a tad inelegant — pierogis and haluski do not exactly scream “hot date” the way, say, tapas and sangria do — or perhaps because so much of this gastronomic tradition is still kept alive in Gram’s kitchen and church basements.
After all, why eat it out when you can get it better at home?
As a pure Heinz 57 Pittsburgher, Munch claims no favorites among ethnic dishes, except for one: more. And that’s exactly what this Baghead-American got at the S&D Polish Deli in the Strip District. More. More! Dalszy!
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November 3rd, 2009
Ingredients
DOUGH
- 4 c All-purpose flour
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 c Sour cream
- 1 ts Salt
- 2/3 c Warm water
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