{"id":1057,"date":"2010-08-10T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-08-11T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:21:07","slug":"czasowniki-w-mojej-kuchni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/czasowniki-w-mojej-kuchni\/","title":{"rendered":"Czasowniki w Mojej Kuchni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summertime, especially when the heat and humidity are at their  worst, the last place you want to be is slaving over a hot stove.  However, it&#8217;s birthday season for my family with birthdays almost every  weekend. So in preparation, there really is no alternative but to be in  front of the hot stove, making the goodies to be devoured by my eager  Polish friends and family. I can honestly say, I wish I had finished the  basement project of creating my <strong>letnia kuchnia<\/strong> (summer kitchen).<\/p>\n<p>Stop  the presses. Basement. Summer kitchen? What? If you&#8217;re like many of my  American friends, the thought of this is a little crazy. Why would you  have a kitchen in the basement when you have a perfectly functional  kitchen on the main floor? The answer from many Polish women is a simple  one. Because it&#8217;s cooler. In Poland, my aunts have separate buildings  on their property where the <strong>letnia kuchnia<\/strong> is located. That&#8217;s  right; separate buildings. That way, they can cook up a storm without  turning the whole house into a sauna. Well, as separate buildings on the  same property are hard to come by here in the States, many of my Polish  relatives and friends have created pseudo-<strong>letnia kuchnia<\/strong> in  their basements. Under the same premise, it is cooler to cook down there  and with the door closed, the heat stays in the basement and not  wafting to the cooler living spaces in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Now to get to  the meat and potatoes of this post. What verbs would you use to cook the  meat and potatoes? Okay, cheesy, I know, but I had to. Here are some    <strong>czasowniki<\/strong> to impress your Polish in-laws, starting with some cooking  methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>gotowa\u0107<\/strong> ~ boil<\/li>\n<li><strong>piec<\/strong> ~ bake<\/li>\n<li><strong>sma\u017cy\u0107<\/strong> ~ fry<\/li>\n<li><strong>przypieka\u0107<\/strong> ~ broil<\/li>\n<li><strong>gotowa\u0107 na parze<\/strong> ~ steam (literally, cook in steam)<\/li>\n<li><strong>w\u0119dzi\u0107<\/strong> ~ smoke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had to add <strong>w\u0119dzi\u0107<\/strong> because a friend&#8217;s father gave me a wonderful cut of meat that he had  smoked. The meat was a pork loin, and in Polish it is called <strong>pol\u0119dwica wieprzowa<\/strong>. All I can say is DELICIOUS! In tribute to my late Father, I too am going to learn the lost art of how to <strong>w\u0119dzi\u0107 po Polsku<\/strong>. Stay tuned for the post on my lesson.<\/p>\n<p>A little in reverse, but before you cook you have to prep. Here are some <strong>czasowniki<\/strong> of prep methods used <strong>w kuchni<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>kroi\u0107<\/strong> ~ cut<\/li>\n<li><strong>po kroi\u0107 na plastry<\/strong> or <strong>szatkowa\u0107<\/strong> ~ slice<\/li>\n<li><strong>miesza\u0107<\/strong> ~ stir<\/li>\n<li><strong>obiera\u0107<\/strong> ~ peel<\/li>\n<li><strong>ubija\u0107<\/strong> ~ beat<\/li>\n<li><strong>trze\u0107<\/strong> ~ grate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of these verbs makes me smile every time\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>miesza\u0107<\/strong>. My Ciocia Marysia  would always serve us tea and jokingly add every time, &#8220;<strong>Miesza\u0107, miesza\u0107. Cukier stary<\/strong>.&#8221;   This translates into, &#8220;Stir, stir. The sugar is old.&#8221; What was even   funnier is I preferred my tea without sugar, so adding it and stirring   vigorously for her benefit was all the more humorous for me. Ah, good   times.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you have had your fill of verbs in my kitchen! I am going to leave you with a <strong>bajka<\/strong>.  I know, shocking that it&#8217;s not disco polo. Soon, I promise. But I have  been spending a lot of time with my sons lately with all the to do&#8217;s,  and one of our favorite things to watch are Disney&#8217;s Phineas and Ferb.  Coincidentally, there is a Polish version of the cartoon, Fineasz i  Ferb, which I have to say I love more. Mostly because I think the voices  for the kids in Polish are ADORABLE! So share with your little ones or  just enjoy for yourself! This is a bajka that both children and adults  can get into, and it happens to be one of my favorite songs from the  show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDGLOnDrI68\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDGLOnDrI68<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do nast\u0119pnego czytania\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verbs used in my kitchen.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}