Don’t ever assume!

Pierogies and beetroots
Lentil stuffed chicken with roasted vegetables
Cherry soup and potato
Brownie souffle and caramel creme
Sorbet with fruit
Mmm..lunch
Mmm..lunch, again

Many eat with their eyes rather than their stomachs. I am one of those individuals. The presentation of food, along this fourteen day journey, has been extraordinary. From three course meals to grab-and-go, I assure you, Polands cuisine has been delicious.
I have taken pictures of almost, everything I have eaten while traveling Poland. I’m not going to bombard you with copious amounts of food photos (maybe just a couple of extras), so I have decided to pick the ‘best’, ‘not the best’, and ‘don’t ever assume’, meal and dessert’s.
We will start with the ‘not the best’ meal.. Poland is known for their Pierogies. Unfortunately, the meat pierogies as Dr. Chapman expressed, “they are awful. It’s looks/taste like Alpo dog food” and I have to agree, they were the worst, however. The beetroot and onions were fantastic. The ‘best meal’ was the lentil stuffed chicken with roasted vegetables. I don’t think I tasted a bit of it. It was that fantastic!
The reason I added, ‘don’t ever assume’ spot, because I did just that. One night for dinner, Dr. Finley and I had dinner in the hotel restaurant. Well…the listing on the menu was, “cherry soup and potato. ” I ASSUMED cherry soup as in, cherry tomato soup. That wasn’t the case. It was actually a bowl of cooked cherries, in there juice. It was like eating a cherry pie. Not what I expected for soup.
Now, on to dessert… again, we will start with, ‘not the best’ and this dessert will also fit the ‘don’t ever assume’ too. The goes to the fruit and sorbet dessert. Unfortunately, once the dessert came, it was a fruit cup dumped into a bowl and sherbet placed on top with a mint leaf. That was not what I expected for fruit and sorbet. Finally, my favorite dessert while in Poland … (drum roll please) … the brownie souffle with caramel creme and raspberry and white chocolate shavings. Oh My Goodness.. all I can say is.. Yum!

1 comment

    • Annette Finley-Croswhite on May 23, 2019 at 8:29 pm
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    Love the post, Melonie. Part of the fun of travel is in the tasting of different foods. That can be a good and a bad thing. Polish food is hearty, I guess because the winters are so cold, so it’s rather a meat lover’s dream…maybe not so great in other areas. But on the trip we had some fine, fine meals. And then there was the Hotel Imperiale in Oswiecim (the site of Melonie’s less-than-appetizing sorbet fruit cup)! The food is just bad in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), and that’s as it should be.

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