Delicious memories from Warmia and Masuria
We usually bring pleasant memories and symbolic souvenirs from holidays – thanks to them, we can on long winter evenings, recall summer adventures, places we visited and flavours we tasted during the holiday.
Being in Warmia and Masuria, one should focus on the sense of taste, for which a huge variety of impressions awaits in this region. It is not without reason that Warmia and Masuria was the first region in Poland to join the European Network of Regional Culinary Heritage – an organization that promotes food produced from natural, local raw materials, in a non-industrial and environmentally friendly way.
Entities associated in the network organize their activities around the idea of slow food, which stands in opposition to the ubiquitous culture of fast food and highly processed food available in bulk sale. Among the members of the network you will find farms, producers of food products, restaurants, inns and taverns. They are united by respect for the culinary traditions of the region, the highest quality of offered food and enthusiasm to share it with others, including guests visiting Warmia and Masuria.
Restaurant with a Green Stove in Olsztynek
One of the places where you can taste the flavours that derive from the culinary heritage of the region is Restaurant with a Green Stove in Olsztynek. According to the promise contained in the name, inside one can find a green, tiled stove, which is still used – both for heating the interior and for preparing tasty dishes. Visiting the Restaurant with a Green Stove makes you feel at home, a home from a different era, though. You will certainly feel the warm, hospitable atmosphere here and you will be able to taste traditional dishes, such as: czernina (black soup), fish soup, boletus soup or various types of dumplings.
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The restaurant menu is not overloaded, and the dishes included in it change successively, according to the seasons. In spring and summer, the restaurant uses vegetables from its own garden, forest fruit and mushrooms to prepare dishes. In autumn and winter, mainly used ingredients are mushrooms, pumpkins and pickles. Throughout the whole year, you can also taste delicious fish from local lakes. So if you are looking for a place where food is celebrated and each moment is appreciated, make sure you visit Olsztynek and let yourself be persuaded to unhurried feasting in the Restaurant with a Green Stove. We guarantee that after such a visit you will gain extremely vivid memories that will make you miss these unique flavours for many months after you have come back home.
Take some taste of your holiday home
If you want to smuggle some of Warmia and Masuria to your homes to be able to soothe the longing for great food after coming back home from holiday, we recommend flavours enclosed in jars. Mazurskie Słoiki is a company that takes pride in using only natural raw materials, wild plants – their flowers and fruit harvested from meadows, fields and forests – to produce its products. It is difficult to talk about production here, we should rather call it craftsmanship because Mazurskie Słoiki focuses on direct acquisition of natural ingredients growing nearby and on the simplest processing methods. The offer of Mazurskie Słoiki depends on the calendar – they are the seasons and the availability of gifts of nature that dictate the conditions. This offer includes: various kinds of jam – raspberry, rosehip petals, syrups – elderberry, pine inflorescence, rosehip petals, nettle, raspberry, various kinds of mousse – sea buckthorn, and even grated rosehip petals.
Lovers of drier flavours will definitely appreciate pickles from Kisz Me Now. The originator and founder of the brand is Jarek Poliwko, a well-known photographer from Olsztyn, who first pickled everything for himself, then for a group of friends, and when the venture grew even more, an unusual manufactory was created, where almost everything is pickled, even radishes, beets, Brussels sprouts or iceberg lettuce. So if your knowledge of pickles ends with cucumbers and cabbage, make sure you try Kisz Me Now products and see for yourself that wonderful and extremely healthy pickles can be made from various gifts of nature.
Enjoy your meal!
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