Comments on: Kapuśniak – Cabbage Soup

By: You’ll never get hungry in Poland | EuroKulture

You’ll never get hungry in Poland | EuroKulture — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:49:20 +0000

[...] soup. Some even say that Poland is a country of soups. Famous soups are botwinka (beetroot soup), kapu niak (cabbage and sauerkraut soup), ros(meat soup) and zacierka(noodle [...]

By: Mary Zurawski

Mary Zurawski — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:31:42 +0000

I think you would like your cabbage soup better if you used pork neckbones or spareribs instead of boullion or canned stock. I love cabbage soup and make all kinds of variations including a tomato based vegetarian recipe.

By: Henryk

Henryk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:08 +0000

Speaking of comfort food: I was born and raised in an environment where any food was comfort food when given onto others. Offering food was an act of love and a comfort for the soul, even when the receiver was kicking and screaming.
It has taken me decades to appreciate the psychology behind this, and now, whenever I’m being offered food in this spirit (and I still am, thanks God), I do gladly accept.

But the food to be given when ill was definitely not kapusniak; it was rosol – chicken soup, the East-European Jewish universal medicine. It still stirs some fond memories…

And: thanks for the recipes, everybody .

By: thomas westcott

thomas westcott — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:40:09 +0000

I have had cabbage soup and I have had sauerkraut soup but not both together.

The kapusta zupa was the best. I was pleasantly surprised by how delicious sauerkraut soup could be.

The flavor is drasticly changed by which meat you use with it. Different sausages have different seasonings.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:31:52 +0000

I have only one comfort dish. Kotlet schabowy… and pierogi. Two! Kotlet schabowy, pierogi… and naleśniki. Three!
I cannot choose one
(Yes I stole from Monty Python there…)