What is your Beloved Food ?

[Moinul Moin]

What do you suggest that's veg that I could try?

If I'm not wrong, being vegetarian is when you don't eat meat only, so I suggest any type of pierogi with a filling not made with meat as well, basically anything flour or potato-based without meat. I would also suggest making vegetable salad without meat (still a traditional Polish side dish even though it originated in Russia).

And I guess I was wrong, there are a lot of vegetarian Polish dishes, you'd have to look for them here.

I actually live in an area with a significant Polish-American population, so pierogis are often available fresh in our local supermarkets, even though we're a rural area.  My girls love them!  I do wonder what a good sauce might be for them, though, since I feel like they would benefit from something like that maybe.  Or maybe just something to accompany them like sauerkraut or sour cream or something.

In English, we usually use pierogis as the plural, even though it's not correct for Polish.  It's one of those things where being technically correct would make you sound pretentious, like the pronunciation of Barcelona.

One other suggestion for the Baron: roast vegetable salad. Diced sweet potato, red onion, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli on a tray in the oven, toss with mixed greens. Use the leftover vegetables with eggs in a hash for breakfast one day on the weekend. Simple, versatile, tasty.

We do the roast vegetables and will often have them with eggs, although I'm not sure we ever have had them in a salad.  I wouldn't have thought of that -- I'd guess you have to dice them pretty small so that big chunks of veggies don't overwhelm your lettuce?

I have never lost my love for the food I grew up on in Texas, most of which is impossible to find in Ohio. My local Walmart actually sells crawfish, (frozen, pre-seasoned and cooked), and while not as good as what you'd get at a live crawfish boil, it's okay. A few local Chinese restaurants serve crawfish, but advertise them as "baby lobsters". I could have live crawfish shipped to me from Louisiana, but it's too expensive.

I've never had a crawfish boil, but I've seen them in videos and they look amazing.

That are some popular Indian vegetarian foods that many foreigners enjoy trying.(Popular also in India)
Some great options include Paneer Butter Masala (a creamy cheese curry), Masala Dosa (a crispy rice pancake with potato filling), Vegetable Biryani (flavored rice with vegetables), and Samosa (a crispy snack with spiced potatoes). These are generally tasty and beginner-friendly.

We eat a lot of those things -- even before spending a good amount of time in India (a lot of it staying with @Béneditsch Ardpresteir !) we have loved Indian food.  There's a significant Gujurati population here, and one of my coworkers is Jain, so I've been fortunate enough to get to try a good number of things.  I should learn to cook more of it!

You travelled India too!Very amazing news to me as dwelling near India.

[Moinul Moin]

Pierogies

I just said that pierogi is already the plural... sad.

Oh caught it!
Pierogi=plural=Correct
Pierogies=plural=incorrect
Thanks @Barclamïu da Miéletz

[Iason Taiwos]

Pierogies

I just said that pierogi is already the plural... sad.

https://www.mrstspierogies.com/
Thank you for informing us about this, but I would imagine the majority of people in my region don't know that. Even a company that makes them calls them pierogies.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

Pierogies

I just said that pierogi is already the plural... sad.

https://www.mrstspierogies.com/
Thank you for informing us about this, but I would imagine the majority of people in my region don't know that. Even a company that makes them calls them pierogies.

It's the one thing that us Poles are sometimes struggling with.

Also took a look at the website and I can say that in my opinion their products look appalling.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I agree -- the maximum size is a paltry 5 lbs?  I need way more for a family dinner.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

5 lbs

Just over two kilogrammes is not that bad if you're a family of three. Though I could eat that myself in one sitting too. And their "pierogi" look like a hybrid of the Russian pelmeni and some other dumplings. I wouldn't call them pierogi.

[Iason Taiwos]

Also took a look at the website and I can say that in my opinion their products look appalling.

😂 Agreed. But this is the brand that's available everywhere around here.
Until today, I also added an "s" to pluralize "Pączki". But am I pronouncing it properly? Around here we say it like "punch-key". (I love pączki, but you can only get them certain times of the year. I think it revolves around some religious holiday.)
AD, if you can find them, the frozen bags of crawfish are acceptable. The ones from Louisiana tend to be better. Walmart used to sell ones that were products of China, Spain, and Egypt. Like I said, these things are precooked and seasoned, and sometimes the non-Louisiana brands had a funky seasoning on them.
I gave this topic some more consideration, and decided fried chicken is actually my most beloved food. I am ashamed to admit that I've still never had Barberton chicken, which is a popular style of fried chicken in these parts (it's of Serbian origin.)

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

I love pączki, but you can only get them certain times of the year. I think it revolves around some religious holiday.

Oh no you can eat them whenever you want. When we want some we just go to our nearest Lidl and get some.

What you're trying to say is that you eat them at Fat Thursday before fasting.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

I gave this topic some more consideration, and decided fried chicken is actually my most beloved food.

An excellent choice, Iason. Do you have a favorite restaurant? I am partial to a place in the Louisville area called Indi's.

[Iason Taiwos]

I gave this topic some more consideration, and decided fried chicken is actually my most beloved food.

An excellent choice, Iason. Do you have a favorite restaurant? I am partial to a place in the Louisville area called Indi's.

The best local fried chicken is from a place called Italo's. It's a locally owned business with a few locations in the area. Their chicken dinner is just a cardboard box of fried chicken with jo-Jo's and a side of cole slaw. When I lived in East Liverpool (Feiabalsa Oriental in Talossan), the local Italo's was within walking distance of my house. I was friends with the delivery girl, and sometimes she'd give me extra chicken for free.
Aside from Italo's, Popeyes is the best place. The chicken and biscuits are still good, but the sides are pretty bad. I dunno about nationally, but our local Popeyes doesn't sell dirty rice anymore, they have red beans and rice, and it's awful.
Best fried fish is from a place called Mark's Landing. It's near Vitxalmour Conductour's house. Every Friday they have an all-you-can-eat fish dinner, and it's superb. (My area in Ohio is pretty good for fried fish.) (For traveling Talossans, I live in Columbiana County, Ohio. It's mostly farmland with towns scattered here and there. The local cuisine is improving since we got an influx of immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico. Highly recommend a place called Rancho Viejo, none of the staff speak English, but the food is cheap and fantastic. Best tacos I've ever had.)

[Iason Taiwos]

We had a Cajun food truck in town for a while. I talked to the owner, he was from New Orleans. I was pleased to find this place, they sold home made boudin, and had gumbo and Po' Boys. Unfortunately, they were expensive, and some of the dishes weren't very good. I would have figured a dude from New Orleans would make some good gumbo, but it was pretty bad. People in my town aren't familiar with Cajun foods (I've gotten weird looks and comments from the clerks at Walmart whenever I buy bags of crawfish), so this food truck didn't get much business and eventually shut down. The boudin was very good, tho.