I grew up in Chicago, IL and still practice a lot of the Polish Easter traditions my mom handed down. My favorite is our family's Easter basket. It is a willow basket decorated with flowers and a lace insert. Every Holy Saturday we go to have it blessed. My wooden pisanki is a cherished collection of mine. Every Easter I get one egg to add to the collection. I display them in my kitchen, but during Lent they are in pretty baskets on my dining room table. I am 55, so I have a lot of eggs! Thank you for sharing these traditions. Happy Easter to all. May your days be blessed.
also grew up in Pennsylvania in an old coal mining town we always had kielbasa for Easter and nut bread made with walnuts and of course the ham always a chocolate cross and lamb in every easter basket and lots of horseradish made with beets so many good memories of my babcia cooking in the kitchen
Every year on Holy Saturday I would go with my mother to get our baskets blessed. When I had children, we all went with my mother. Also, we call the Monday after Easter - Dyngus day. My father would wake us up by squirting us with water. As a matter of fact, I just sprinkled my husband with water😊 Thank you for sharing this video! It brought back many happy memories
As an American growing up in Pennsylvania, I remember all of these dishes! As a child, never liked seeing the fishes with their heads still on LOL! Or, what about horseradish? My father and all his six brothers would eat horseradish until they were crying, because of the burning eyes! I love growing up with my Polish memories! I miss all those people to this day!
While in Poland for work, and the trip included spending Easter in Poland, we visited Swidnicka on Holy Saturday. This was the first I saw Święconka. 10 years ago returning to Cleveland Ohio USA me and my daughter (now 17 years old) adopted this tradition. We stop at Cleveland’s old world market then go to St Stanislaw Church (the blessing is in English and Polish) in Cleveland. Only Covid 19 has forced us to skip this tradition. FYI we are not Polish. LOL (but I tell people that I and 1/50 Polish because I have spend nearly a year of my life in Poland over the last 11 years...). FYI in Cleveland OH we have a Dyngus Day celebration as well!
Oh wow! I didn’t know that you have Śmingus Dyngus in Cleveland! I am really glad that you liked the Polish tradition so much that you adopted it ☺️ that’s so cool!
I always loved to visit my family in Poland, the food was so delicious, everything fresh cooked with so much love and passion. Soup, salad, main course, desserts, cakes and pastries. It was like heaven. The polish cuisine is sadly so underrated. I recommend it always if we talk about the different cuisines around Europe.
These all look amazing 😍 I’m Australian Greek Orthodox so our Easter is a bit different from the anglo-saxon one. I must say that soup looks really good 👌
Wow. You made me learn more about the Greek Orthodox one 😉 I hope that you keep some of the traditions still alive there in Australia. Is there any Australian way to celebrate Easter? Most of you come from different European countries so I guess it depends on family, right? Or you spend Easter like the Brits?
Cooking the World it really does depend on the family and the individual traditions. But in all honesty unless you are an actively practising Christian for most families it’s just a long weekend with the Easter bunny here, so you could say we follow the American tradition lol. I grew up Greek Orthodox so for me Easter meant 40 days of lent (abstaining from all meat, dairy, oils and oily fish), frequent church attendance, a midnight mass on our good Friday (Greek Easter rarely falls on the same date as catholic Easter) where we break our fast at midnight with a feast. We used to start with cracking hard boiled red dyed eggs (which are similar to the polish ones in your video!) with each other one person says Christos Anesti ( Christ has risen) to which the other person respond Alethos anesti (truth he has risen) as the crack the eggs on top of one another (it symbolises the blood of Christ and the breaking ‘leaving from the tomb’, then we eat an offal soup called Magiritsa, followed by other meat and fish dishes. It was always quite an event. Then on Saturday and Sunday we would attend church again before having a big family meal on Easter Sunday. So my experience for Easter is worlds apart from my partners who is 5th generation anglo-saxon Australian, his family doesn’t observe so it was always just about the chocolate Easter eggs and either a bbq or roast meal on Easter Sunday.
"it’s just a long weekend with the Easter bunny here" - 😂. Greek Orthodox seem to follow the traditions more strictly than people in other countries. Fasting and midnight feast are lovely traditions. I hope that you keep them in some way. In the end traditions help to maintain a sense of connection to the past and establishing identity. The diversity, new ideas of todays world are incredible inspiration, but they prove keeping the traditions alive to be difficult. But well, I think you are doing a great job with your morning porridge tradition already 😉
@@cooking-the-world I do try to keep the traditions alive but it's hard since my partner is not Greek so he doesn't have any connection to these traditions. As the older generation in my family passes it is becoming more difficult but I do try!
Oh wow! That looks exactly like the German Hefezopf! But the Greek seem to use different seasonings and flour type. What is the consistency of it? Fluffy? (sorry, now I need more details:))
Cooking the World it’s kind of fluffy it’s hard to explain, it’s really good though! It uses a special tree gum called mastiha which gives it a very unique flavour which don’t really know how to describe 😅 the bread has an amazing smell and is more a dessert bread than a savory one. I love the traditional one but now days a lot of people add chocolate in side before they braid it, I’m not overly fond of the ‘new flavours’ but that may be because my mum always made the traditional one ☺️
Oh how sweet of her. I hope that your mum will make you one in less then two weeks time then! Greek food is so delicious. There are plenty of Greek restaurants here in Germany and I am going to discover more Greek dishes (because lets be honest, I always go for Gyros or Lamb chops) when the restaurants open again.
@@sabrinaclarus6290 Is there any reason why you don't have it anymore? I prepared a video for next week about Easter in Germany and it includes the rabbit :)
@@cooking-the-world 25 years ago I moved to Canada.I live in a very small town, not too much rabbit available here.When I do get it I still cook it though ! I will be sure to whatch your next video!!
@@sabrinaclarus6290 Traditions serve as an avenue for creating lasting memories for our families. I am so glad that you are trying to keep some of those traditions in Canada. It is important!
@@cooking-the-world as you may know, her mother is polish, so in her show she invited her occasionally and cooked with her white sausages, beetroot soup...
Oh no I didn't know that, but thanks for pointing that out. Half of my family is also Polish so I have something in common with her:) I need to check her recipes. Thanks for commenting and watching.
I grew up in Chicago, IL and still practice a lot of the Polish Easter traditions my mom handed down. My favorite is our family's Easter basket. It is a willow basket decorated with flowers and a lace insert. Every Holy Saturday we go to have it blessed. My wooden pisanki is a cherished collection of mine. Every Easter I get one egg to add to the collection. I display them in my kitchen, but during Lent they are in pretty baskets on my dining room table. I am 55, so I have a lot of eggs! Thank you for sharing these traditions. Happy Easter to all. May your days be blessed.
I miss the polish bakeries in Chicago
also grew up in Pennsylvania in an old coal mining town we always had kielbasa for Easter and nut bread made with walnuts and of course the ham always a chocolate cross and lamb in every easter basket and lots of horseradish made with beets so many good memories of my babcia cooking in the kitchen
Every year on Holy Saturday I would go with my mother to get our baskets blessed. When I had children, we all went with my mother. Also, we call the Monday after Easter - Dyngus day. My father would wake us up by squirting us with water. As a matter of fact, I just sprinkled my husband with water😊 Thank you for sharing this video! It brought back many happy memories
As an American growing up in Pennsylvania, I remember all of these dishes! As a child, never liked seeing the fishes with their heads still on LOL! Or, what about horseradish? My father and all his six brothers would eat horseradish until they were crying, because of the burning eyes! I love growing up with my Polish memories! I miss all those people to this day!
While in Poland for work, and the trip included spending Easter in Poland, we visited Swidnicka on Holy Saturday. This was the first I saw Święconka. 10 years ago returning to Cleveland Ohio USA me and my daughter (now 17 years old) adopted this tradition. We stop at Cleveland’s old world market then go to St Stanislaw Church (the blessing is in English and Polish) in Cleveland. Only Covid 19 has forced us to skip this tradition. FYI we are not Polish. LOL (but I tell people that I and 1/50 Polish because I have spend nearly a year of my life in Poland over the last 11 years...).
FYI in Cleveland OH we have a Dyngus Day celebration as well!
Oh wow! I didn’t know that you have Śmingus Dyngus in Cleveland! I am really glad that you liked the Polish tradition so much that you adopted it ☺️ that’s so cool!
American Poles usually have a crumb cake called placek for Easter. Our grandmothers spent all day Saturday making dozens of loaves.
Interesting, thanks for letting me know!
I always loved to visit my family in Poland, the food was so delicious, everything fresh cooked with so much love and passion.
Soup, salad, main course, desserts, cakes and pastries. It was like heaven.
The polish cuisine is sadly so underrated.
I recommend it always if we talk about the different cuisines around Europe.
These all look amazing 😍 I’m Australian Greek Orthodox so our Easter is a bit different from the anglo-saxon one. I must say that soup looks really good 👌
Wow. You made me learn more about the Greek Orthodox one 😉 I hope that you keep some of the traditions still alive there in Australia. Is there any Australian way to celebrate Easter? Most of you come from different European countries so I guess it depends on family, right? Or you spend Easter like the Brits?
Cooking the World it really does depend on the family and the individual traditions. But in all honesty unless you are an actively practising Christian for most families it’s just a long weekend with the Easter bunny here, so you could say we follow the American tradition lol. I grew up Greek Orthodox so for me Easter meant 40 days of lent (abstaining from all meat, dairy, oils and oily fish), frequent church attendance, a midnight mass on our good Friday (Greek Easter rarely falls on the same date as catholic Easter) where we break our fast at midnight with a feast. We used to start with cracking hard boiled red dyed eggs (which are similar to the polish ones in your video!) with each other one person says Christos Anesti ( Christ has risen) to which the other person respond Alethos anesti (truth he has risen) as the crack the eggs on top of one another (it symbolises the blood of Christ and the breaking ‘leaving from the tomb’, then we eat an offal soup called Magiritsa, followed by other meat and fish dishes. It was always quite an event. Then on Saturday and Sunday we would attend church again before having a big family meal on Easter Sunday.
So my experience for Easter is worlds apart from my partners who is 5th generation anglo-saxon Australian, his family doesn’t observe so it was always just about the chocolate Easter eggs and either a bbq or roast meal on Easter Sunday.
"it’s just a long weekend with the Easter bunny here" - 😂. Greek Orthodox seem to follow the traditions more strictly than people in other countries. Fasting and midnight feast are lovely traditions. I hope that you keep them in some way. In the end traditions help to maintain a sense of connection to the past and establishing identity. The diversity, new ideas of todays world are incredible inspiration, but they prove keeping the traditions alive to be difficult. But well, I think you are doing a great job with your morning porridge tradition already 😉
@@cooking-the-world I do try to keep the traditions alive but it's hard since my partner is not Greek so he doesn't have any connection to these traditions. As the older generation in my family passes it is becoming more difficult but I do try!
I see the challenge! I am keeping my fingers crossed! ☺️
I grew up with Polish parents i remember eating kubasas and eggs,at easter,thier should be a beef kubasa.
We have polish Easter but everything is vegan ... egg meat etc we enjoy without the cruelty. Poland is amazing for vegan food it's amazing :)
Oh! And My favourite Easter treat we used to make its a very nice yeast bread called tsoureki 😋
Oh wow! That looks exactly like the German Hefezopf! But the Greek seem to use different seasonings and flour type. What is the consistency of it? Fluffy? (sorry, now I need more details:))
Cooking the World it’s kind of fluffy it’s hard to explain, it’s really good though! It uses a special tree gum called mastiha which gives it a very unique flavour which don’t really know how to describe 😅 the bread has an amazing smell and is more a dessert bread than a savory one. I love the traditional one but now days a lot of people add chocolate in side before they braid it, I’m not overly fond of the ‘new flavours’ but that may be because my mum always made the traditional one ☺️
Oh how sweet of her. I hope that your mum will make you one in less then two weeks time then! Greek food is so delicious. There are plenty of Greek restaurants here in Germany and I am going to discover more Greek dishes (because lets be honest, I always go for Gyros or Lamb chops) when the restaurants open again.
@@cooking-the-world Greek cuisine is amazing (I am bias lol) there are so many lovely dishes to try!
Are there any dishes (apart from those I have already mentioned) that you can recommend?
Thank you very much for watching! Please share with me what is your favourite Easter dish?
In Germany wie used to have roasted Rabbit for Easter .
@@sabrinaclarus6290 Is there any reason why you don't have it anymore? I prepared a video for next week about Easter in Germany and it includes the rabbit :)
@@cooking-the-world 25 years ago I moved to Canada.I live in a very small town, not too much rabbit available here.When I do get it I still cook it though ! I will be sure to whatch your next video!!
@@sabrinaclarus6290 Traditions serve as an avenue for creating lasting memories for our families. I am so glad that you are trying to keep some of those traditions in Canada. It is important!
I think Martha Stewart did a great job promoting a good number of these dishes..
I am not aware of what she promoted but I am glad you recognised some of them :)
@@cooking-the-world as you may know, her mother is polish, so in her show she invited her occasionally and cooked with her white sausages, beetroot soup...
Oh no I didn't know that, but thanks for pointing that out. Half of my family is also Polish so I have something in common with her:) I need to check her recipes. Thanks for commenting and watching.
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The "Karp" fish was forgotten.
For Easter? Not in my family 😉
Im polish
There should be 12 dishes.
For Christmas rather than for Easter dear
Its not sour