Bigos is cooked cabbage that melts in your mouth, and it's flavored with pork products and dried fruits. The Polish couple who make this dish, across the street from a beach in Nicaragua, take their food seriously. They cook this dish, and then they warm it up and cool it down four times; otherwise, they said, it would simply be grandma's bigos, not the real thing. The pork included rib and bacon, and the fruit included dried plum. They also used a type of dried mushroom that they imported from Poland. This is basically an enhanced cabbage dish, but it's very enhanced. It was served with fried potato slices with skin on that also melted in your mouth. This was a juicy dish with pork flavor that came through nicely.
Location: Mniam Restaurante Polaco, Playa Las Peñitas, Leon, Nicaragua. Date: February 16, 2023.
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I got these delicious morsels from a food truck parked, with three or four other trucks, at Smitty's workshop on Adams Avenue at Mansfield in San Diego. I ignored the long line at the lobster roll truck and was amply rewarded by my visit to the purple Pierogi Truck.
They offered various varieties of these filled Polish dumplings, including potato and cheese, spinach, and the one I chose: sauerkraut and mushroom. Six dumplings were garnished with caramelized onion and chives, and they were served with herbed sour cream and cabbage pickled in beet juice. They were moist, tasty, and comforting. I put them down on the parking lot to photograph them, and then I sat on the curb and thoroughly enjoyed them. Location: Pierogi Truck at Smittys, Adams Avenue at Mansfield, San Diego, California. Date: July 21, 2015. |
AuthorChef Roland has been a legal resident of seven countries and has travelled in over thirty, documenting food along the way. He currently resides in the desert in Southern California. Categories
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