Rosół — Poland’s Golden Chicken Soup (Sunday Dinner Tradition)
No Polish topic generates more heated opinions than rosół. Every Pole believes their family makes the best version, and every Pole is ready to fight about it. I’m about to share my recipe, which means roughly 38 million people will disagree with at least one...
8 Genius Polish-Fusion Recipes You’ve Never Seen
This is where Polish Mom gets weird — and by weird, I mean wonderful. Every recipe on this page combines babcia’s Polish techniques with flavours from Korea, Mexico, Japan, or Thailand. These aren’t random mashups. Each one is built on a genuine connection...
Mexican Bigos — Smoky Chipotle Hunter’s Stew
Sauerkraut and chipotle have more in common than you think — both are tangy, smoky, and deeply savoury. Both add acidity that cuts through rich, fatty meat. Both improve with time. When I realised this overlap, I knew bigos — Poland’s legendary hunter’s...
Sausage Egg Breakfast Rolls — Freezer-Friendly Grab-and-Go Mornings
School mornings are chaos. These are my sanity. With four kids and approximately 17 minutes between “everyone wake up” and “we need to leave NOW,” mornings in our house are not the serene, instagram-worthy breakfast scenes you see online....
Crispy Oven-Roasted Sliced Potatoes — Golden, Crunchy, Addictive
I was supposed to bring a “side dish” to dinner. I brought these. They were gone before the main course hit the table. Crispy sliced potatoes are what happens when a baked potato and a potato chip have a meeting and agree that life is better as a team. You...
Budget Cabbage Dinners — 6 Ways to Love This $2 Vegetable
Polish people and cabbage go way back. Sauerkraut, gołąbki, bigos, kapusniak — our entire cuisine is built on the assumption that there’s cabbage in the kitchen. Now cabbage is my budget MVP. At $0.50-1.00 per head, it’s the cheapest vegetable in any...
Gochujang Mac & Cheese — Spicy Korean Comfort Fusion
I accidentally squeezed gochujang into my mac and cheese once and the result was so good I pretended it was intentional. The real story: I was making regular baked mac and cheese — my standard three-cheese version that the kids request weekly. I reached for the...
8 Dumpling Recipes From Around the World
I’ve been folding dumplings since I was five years old, standing on a stool in babcia’s kitchen, pressing the edges of pierogi with a fork because my small fingers couldn’t crimp properly. Dumplings are Poland’s contribution to a universal food...