kielbasa

polish flag outside of our house

i love meat, especially the kind ground up and stuffed in a casing. my friend fen loves to make up holidays. welcome...polish day. turns out having a party around polish inspired food was a brilliant plan. last year, a small group of us got together and ate kielbasa, halushki, perogies, halupkies, and drank polish beer...alas, polish day was born. (and several arteries were blocked...) if you don't know what any of these foods are, i suggest you look them up and try them. pure deliciousness. this year, we decided to continue the tradition. (plus, it's the dead of dumb winter, so what else do people have to do?) today is the day of our blessed made up holiday.

i will say that this year it's gotten a bit out of hand. (and the guest list has definitely grown) on wednesday, i got a picture text from my friend who went up to the hometown farmers market (in PA) to buy the kielbasa. when i received the picture, excitement filled my bones when i realized this cased meat would soon be passing through my lips. (i'm not being dramatic, it's just that good.) this same friend showed up on friday night to our house with a full size polish flag that is now waving off of our front porch. i wonder how many of our neighbors googled to find out what kind of flag it actually was. (because surely the polish flag is not a common one waving in front of houses.)

straight from shenandoah, now once

some of my lady friends spent the better part of last night at fen's house rolling about 50 halupkis. (while the guys built a fire in my backyard and sent videos to us of them throwing gasoline on it?) the halushki, perogies, and polish meatballs will be prepared later this morning. lotsa food, lotsa beer...lotsa fun. over 25 people will be in attendance to devour these delacacies...and not one of them has an ounce of polish blood coursing through their veins. as they say in poland...Na Zdrowie! (Cheers!)