Linden Desai

If you’ve ever had store-bought styrofoam angel food cake, you know how well-worth the work of making one at home can be. Light, airy, heavenly even, this versatile cake is best served with whipped cream and strawberries. This recipe is not Babcia’s, but it is similar. If anyone has her […]

Angel Food Cake

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged angel / cake / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai

There is no strawberry stealing the spotlight in this pie – it is all rhubarby goodness. I remember finding out that the rhubarb pie recipe is actually the neighbours (Mrs. Bechard)! She gave in and told when mom and I asked for the recipe. She couldn’t remember and directed us […]

Rhubarb Pie

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged dessert / pie / rhubarb / vegetarian by Linden Desai

These were a special treat. Babcia’s cakes were the best in the biz, but when these cherry squares came out, all bets were off! Cherry squares were always my absolute favourite! I remember Babcia would have a tupperware container full and I would stand next to it having “just one […]

Cherry Squares

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged cherry / cherry squares / dessert / pie / squares / vegetarian by Linden Desai

The smell of cabbage cooking is what the Tomaszewski’s call “Polish Potpourri.” I remember the time that we tried to make Babcia dinner. We had to fight her out of the kitchen! – Meagan If anyone tests this recipe out, let us know in the comment section below, and take […]

Bigos

9 Dec, 2016 in Lunch & Dinner tagged bigos / cabbage / stew by Linden Desai

We still need a recipe for angel wings. If anyone has it, we would love to include it! Thanks in advance. Email it to recipes@jennyscakes.org

Chrusciki

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged angel wings / chrusciki / cookies / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai

Whenever someone tries to compare latkas to platzki katoflane, they’re setting themselves up for a losing battle. Crispy, salty, perfection awaits you if you’re willing to put in the knuckle work! No matter how hard we tried, somehow our potato pancakes could never compare to Babcia’s. – Michaela If anyone […]

Platzki Katoflane

9 Dec, 2016 in Breakfast tagged breakfast / pancakes / platzki / potatoes / vegetarian by Linden Desai

Jello is traditionally a dessert food. Somehow, at Tomaszewski gatherings, it never makes it passed the main course. While eating jello with warm foods can be a challenge (can’t let them leak onto the pierogi!), it would feel wrong to eat a Wigilia dinner without it! 100% Polish recipe (or […]

Polish Jello

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged dessert / jello / polish jello by Linden Desai

Paluski – the other polish dumpling! This recipe is handy to have around when you made way too many mashed potatoes. Boil ’em, panfry ’em, or freeze ’em. I once asked another polish friend if his family eat paluski. He gave me the weirdest look because it translates to “pillows.” I […]

Paluski

9 Dec, 2016 in Lunch & Dinner tagged dinner / dumpling / kopytka / paluski / potatoes / side / side dish / vegetarian by Linden Desai

The early morning. The red onion dyed eggs. Watching your basket from the Polish church pews as it is blessed, you see the best part of every Easter breakfast peeking out: babka. This sweet, round bread pairs perfectly with the traditional hard-boiled eggs and kielbasa, and makes a classic backdrop […]

Easter Babka

9 Dec, 2016 in Breakfast tagged babka / bread / breakfast / easter / vegetarian by Linden Desai

This is possibly the most versatile polish recipe. You can eat crepes for breakfast with syrup or peanut butter, for lunch with meat or savory fillings, or dessert with sweetened cottage cheese and fruit. These thin pancakes offer a world of possibilities! This recipe is from the Art of Polish […]

Nalesniki

9 Dec, 2016 in Breakfast / Dessert / Lunch & Dinner tagged breakfast / crepes / dinner / lunch / nalesniki / pancake / vegetarian by Linden Desai

This is the recipe to turn to when you’re sick and need a boost or are just in need of something warm and comforting. Babcia’s take on this traditional polish soup promises to get you back on the right track in no time! I use this recipe for everything from […]

Rosol

9 Dec, 2016 in Lunch & Dinner tagged chicken / dinner / noodle / rosol / rosu / soup lunch by Linden Desai

Black forest cake.. The most famous of all the Babcia cakes! We have all had this baked good more times than we can count, and now we can attempt to make it ourselves! I remember my mom and others telling me about how sick of black forest cake they got. […]

Black Forest Cake

9 Dec, 2016 in Dessert tagged black forest / cake / dessert / vegetarian by Linden Desai

Every Tomaszewski went through a crisis/epiphany when we first found out that the meat in patycki is in fact pork, not chicken. As far as we’ve heard, that hasn’t been a deterrent from eating this incredible dish! It’s both fried and baked – you cannot go wrong. “What do you mean […]

Patycki

9 Dec, 2016 in Lunch & Dinner tagged city chicken / dinner / patycki / patyczki / pork by Linden Desai

Pierogi! Perogie! Pierogies! This is a hot button issue in the polish community. We have even heard some say that they won’t eat the pierogi if it’s misspelled. In our humble opinion, we’ll always eat pierogi – as long as it’s Babcia’s recipe! We have three pierogi recipes, so if […]

Pierogi (2)

9 Dec, 2016 in Lunch & Dinner tagged dinner / entre / lunch / perogies / pierogi / potatoes / vegetarian by Linden Desai