http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/ Poles In Great Britain Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:59:30 GMT Tony Gabis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9968 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9968 Anyone looking for bigos recipes should look no further than the restaurant section Mike Oborski's bigos bar which is still there at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:52:32 GMT oborski@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9967 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9967 I'll send the Oborski famil "posh" bigos recipe when I get home. It's in Mike's book "Bigos and Chips" Fran Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ... From: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:47:13 GMT krysiack http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9966 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9966 I pride myself on making a mean bigos..but it takes a full days work! Roast one lego of pork. Roast 1 chicken Make a gulasz from about 1 kilo of beef. Take Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:39:25 GMT krysiack http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9965 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9965 A couple of years ago whenI was in krakow I came across a pieczona kielbasa which was like othing I had ever tasted before...sadly it was picked up at a market Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:39:18 GMT oborski@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9964 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9964 I'm sure Mike would have agreed with Tony on adverts. You can always add the kabanosy to bigos! On aother note: I'm off to Gdansk on Saturday. MIke made a Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:53 GMT joe_musialowski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9963 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9963 ... Just what I was thinking. Who has a good recipe for bigos. My mother made the best bigos ever. Sadly she is no longer with us. But at my Uncle wake Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:54 GMT Tony Gabis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9962 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9962 All this talk of kabanosy makes it sound like there is only one variety of kielbasa. My favourite is mysliwska. What's yours? [Non-text portions of this Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:14:59 GMT Tony Gabis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9961 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9961 As Krysia asked about advertising, I will try to explain the policy which I think I inherited from Mike and perhaps modified over the years to try and please Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:03:06 GMT krysiack http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9960 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9960 I reckon it was I who created the shortage of kabanosy!!..Really my freezer is full of them!I have no idea what i was thinking fo when I was buying them! Pek Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:48:50 GMT Richard Mekka http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9959 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9959 ... Hi Krysia, I have a vague idea my parents sent parcels in the late 50s & 60s too, but there was always some element of doubt as to how long they would take Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:33:17 GMT Alexandra Everist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9958 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9958 Thank you Krysia! Alexandra Everist Author of "A Katrina Moment" Co-Author of "No Place to Call Home" www.alexandraeverist.com [Non-text portions of this Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:13 GMT krysiack http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9957 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9957 When I said parcels went from our house every month I meant I remember them going from the early 60's......yes when the stan wojenny was declared post Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:28:23 GMT Richard Mekka http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9956 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9956 ... Yes, I still have some frocks from there ;-) -- R A Mekka Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:11:59 GMT Hugh Jordan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9955 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9955 ... I recall that back in the eighties, and probably before, the black market rate of exchange was fixed by the half-litre of Czysta. It was always 1 USD in Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:37:08 GMT Richard Mekka http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9954 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polesingreatbritain/message/9954 Hi all, Just wanted to add my 2 grozy's worth. ... I think it must have been in the early 80s that regular "transports" started running to Poland ie lorries