So, over the past 3 days, we actually had a healthy percentage increase in readership. CLose to 60% more on Monday and Tuesday and 100% increase today. Cool. If you sent links out - thanks! If you didn't, may the spit of three drooling dalmations make it's way onto your pillow tonight while you sleep. Now, the funniest and coolest thing I noticed about the web hits was this....a Google search for "Haluski origin" landed here at The Slant. I wanted to see where we landed on the actual Google page so I clicked the link....BAM!....we're second. Yes folks, if you ever search Google for "Haluski Origin", your second choice will be Stilladog's article about his vast Haluski knowledge. This actually gives me an idea. Obviously there isn't a webpage dedicated to the origins of Haluski. Should one start one, and pepper it with Haluski references and photos so aptly named....it should garner sufficient hits to make money from Google AdSense. You don't even have to host the site....just create a Haluski Blog.....Blogluski!
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My daughter came home 2 days ago all excited because she volunteered me to make palicinky (which is like a huge crepe) for her class on Friday because they are having an international luncheon. (WHY her teacher is deciding to do this the week before Christmas is beyond me.)
So, she keeps talking about all the stuff the kids are bringing in - haluski, pierogies, pizelles......etc. I remember when we had 'different food day' in 6th grade and I had to eat deer sausage. I wasn't too thrilled.
I guess if I lived near the snooty Philadelphia area someone would be bringing in sushi eh?
My little girl and me are all about the sushi...and sashimi. nothing like a hunk of raw salmon the size of half a deck of cards. i think i'll have a bento box for lunch tomorrow on that note....hrumph. and sister.....while 10 miles south of me is very snooty and my own neighborhood is maybe marginally snooty....10 miles north of me would remind you a LOT of our college days.
So, what you are saying is you are living in moderate snot?
I'm thinking a food section and a music section.
I'm not much of a baker, but I can cook most anything else. Which means I do apply heat to my seafood and that sushi crap will be up to Fan.
I don't really know all that much about haluski except what's usually in it and how good it tastes. Perhaps Still A. While could chime in on good ole Western Pennsylvania wedding fare such as Halupki, rigatoni, and fried chicken... and the obligatory salad.
Fan or others would have to comment on the crap that passes for popular music today leaving me to focus on my true passions, blues and jazz.
Keep them hits a-comin'.
I can cook ok I guess but I am much better at baking. My house has been a cookie factory lately.
Gotta love the weddings around here. Dont forget the stuffed cabbage!
I am a country music fan.
Yeah, I know.
I cant believe it myself.
I used to hate it.
I remember walking into my dorm room at college and there was my roommate bouncing on the bed in overalls (I shit you not) singing the Devil Went Down to Georgia.
She knew every word which is kind of hard in that song.
I at least forced her to gain an appreciation for the Eagles during our stay together.
But it is pretty much country for me now as far as any new music goes but I still like the 70's and 80's.
Stuffed cabbage is halupki (as opposed to haluski which is a different cabbage based dish). And for the longest time I thought halupki was a Polish dish 'cause the Polish folks I knew made the best ones. But actually there Slovak in origin.
People also (correctly or incorrectly, I can't say) call them cabbage rolls, pigs-in-a-blanket, stuffed cabbage, or galumbki (which is the Polish spelling).
My goal for next year is to learn how to bake. I can't do much beside a cake from a box and cornbread from a packet. And even those I manage to screw up somehow. First order of business is making my own noodles and pasta.
Country music today has become what Southern Rock evolved into. And I honestly don't know where real country music went.
But I still like the bluegrass pickers such as Earl Scruggs, David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, and Sam Bush.
I used to bring pierogi into work down in Florida, and everyone would come around and be like "What IS that?" So, on our next potluck dinner (we used to do them every other month or so), I rounded up a bunch of Mr. T's (yeah, blasphemy, I know), and fried them up for the crew. They loved them!
If I would have known how to make something like halupki or haluski, I would have darned well done it.
But it's nice to be back in an area where you can say those words and people don't turn and look at you like you have a third eye.
Dog, good luck with making pasta.
I tried once. Turned out tasting like rubber.
You should try cookies - something easy like chocolate chip.
My aunt used to make something called cheregi (or something like that) it was fried dough I think.
Whatever it was it was darn good.
Oh, and potato pancakes too. yumm
Mrs. Dog is in charge of cookies. One of her few cooking tasks. The others being garlic mashed potatoes and chicken noodle soup.
The noodles she uses in the chicken noodle soup are Kluski noodles which are as close to what my grandmother used to make as I can find off the shelf. But I recall Still A. Sis saying she made her own noodles and I'll bet they are terriffic. So that's the #1 reason authentic egg noodles and pasta are at the top of my list. My grandmother used to make the best authentic German potato pancakes too.
Still A. While, if your pasta tasted like rubber... I have to ask... you weren't using that Trojan brand of flour were you?
Like all my other culinary learning experiences I'll have to be prepared to eat my mistakes. Making my own pizza crust would be an added bonus. Flour, eggs, and water are going to be my new best friends... I am already good buds with butter.
I think Three meant he used Mrs. T's frozen pierogies. But I found the humor in him saying Mr. T's anyway. "I pity the fool who don't like my pierogies... Fool!"
That darn Trojan flour!
Homemade noodles are the best.
I have had them in chicken noodle soup a few times and it was the best I had but I can't duplicate them. I just go to Eat 'N Park for their chicken soup.
By the way everyone - Check out the new Sports Illustrated this week. D-Fense!
My mom used to make goolash. Sorry for the lack of spelling knowledge.I think she made it based off of a hungarian neighbor's recipe. Good stuff.
Busted! I did mean Mrs. T's pierogies, but you're right, Mr. T's is better -- "You better fry them up in butter 'n onions, fool!"
You must have had Hungarian neighbors over on the West Side. The Narrows was mostly a German neighborhood. And while there were certainly exceptions to that, I can't think of a single Hungarian family.
I used to work with a wonderful Hungarian woman who always called garlic "Russian Penicillin."
I Googled "haluski noodles seattle buy" and actually got this blogspot as the first result of my search. I am a Pittsburgher now living in Seattle, jonesin' for haluski.
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