Regional Dishes - Germany: Harzer Knäzchen and Harzer Potato Salad

„Harzer Knäzchen“ (meatballs)

Shopping list

4 onions

500 g minced meat

4 tablespoons Breadcrumbs

2 eggs

1 tablespoon mustard

salt

pepper

majoran

1 tablespoon caraway

1 tablespoon flour

2 tablespoons butter

oil

- Peel the onions; two onions into rings and two into small pieces!

- Mix up minced meat with onion pieces, egg yolk, breadcrumbs, mustard, salt, pepper,

caraway and 1 tablespoon of majoran!

- Form meat balls and press them!

- Heat the oil and roast the “ Knäzchen” on both sides!

- Roll the onionrings in flour and roast them in the butter!

- Prepare the “Knäzchen” together with the roasted onions!

“Harzer” Potato salad

Shopping list ( for 4 persons)

750 g potatos

1 teaspoon salt

250 g Rapunzellettuce ( lamb’s lettuce)

2 onions

Dressing:

3 tablespoons white wine vinegar

2 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 knife point pepper

6 tablespoons oil

- Peel the potatoes and cook them in salted water, but not to soft!

- Peel the onions and cut them into small pieces!

- Wash the lettuce and dry it !

- Cool the cooked potatoes and cut them into cubes

- Now make the dressing and mix it up with the potatoes, the onions and the lettuce!

The “Knäzchen” and the “Harzer potato salad” are well suited to each other and are very delicious.

Regional dishes - Poland. German cookies baked by Polish students - Ola and Martyna from class 2b

Regional dishes: German Christmas cookies prepared by Polish students – Martyna and Ola Z., class 2b.



· 3 big whites

· 1 2/3 glasses of icing sugar

· 1 2/3 glasses of grinded almonds

· 2 spoons of flour

· 2 teaspoons of cinnamon

· 1/4 teaspoon of almond essence

· 1/8 teaspoon of salt



Heat up the oven to 150°C. Beat egg whites to a froth. Then add icing sugar, 3/4 glass of almonds, flour, cinnamon, almond essence and salt. Mix everything together. The dough should be glutinous. Roll up the dough on the rest of grinded almonds and cut out the cookies using moulds. Bake cookies for 30-40 minutes.



First of all we were going to work in a group of three with Anna Król but she was ill. So we decided to prepare the cookies without her. We had some problems with dough – it didn’t have good consistency and we couldn’t cut out cookies. Finally we managed to fix it adding more flour. The cookies were very tasty but really hard at the same time.



Aleksandra Zwijacz

Martyna Widomska

Class 2b

Regional dishes - Poland. A Spanish salad prepared by Polish students - Kinga, Agnieszka and Paulina

Wombat fruit salad

1. Ingredients
{ 2 bananas
{ 1 apple
{ 1 orange
{ 6 mandarins
{ 2 kiwi fruits
{ 1 avocado
{ 1 coconut
{ bunch of red grapes
{ bunch of white grapes
{ 2 big strawberry yoghurts

2. Preparing
Wash and peel fruits. Cut them up into pieces. Throw fruits into a bowl and pour them over yoghurt. Mix the salad and garnish it with hearts made of colorful paper. Salad is ready to be eaten!

Wombat
Make two holes in coconut and put straws into them. Spear red grapes on straws as a wombat’s eyes. Additionally make a wombat’s nose from white grape. Use mandarins for making lips and hands. All fruits pin on coconut. Wombat is ready to delight everybody with its appearance!

3. Short relation
Everything was done quite fast and efficiently. We were sneaking a bit and giggling while cooking. Kinga was telling really funny stories. Agnieszka was reading (loudly of course) our horoscopes. Agnieszka’s brother started filming our culinary show but Paulina figured out what was going on and changed over the settings of camera. She didn’t want to be photographed but she took part in salad’s making.

4. Taste impressions
Our salad was delicious! Avocado and kiwi fruits gave it exotic, Spanish taste. Our families found it really tasty too. We didn’t decided to consume wombat as it was to sweet to be killed (or even eaten). Well, the real reason of wombat’s surviving was our desire for not hurting wombat's lovers' feelings :)

Regional dishes - Poland. A German cake prepared by Polish students - Olivia, Justyna and Magda from class 3g

RECIPE for cake Baden - Baden

Ingredients:

The cake and the filling:
- 20 dag flour
- 10 dag of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 spoonfull of baking powder
- 10 dag of margarine
- one pack of vanilla pudding
- 5 big apples
- cinnamon

Crumble:
- 7.5 dag of butter
- 7.5 dag of sugar
- 15 dag of flour
(If you want you can use biscuits)

Cake Baden - Baden preparation:

Cook vanilla pudding, cool (the best in bigger pot with cold water). Grate apples into dick peaces, at ones discretion add cinnamon and sugar. Knead the cake and put into the circle mould with diameter 24 cm. On the cake regularly put apples with cinnamon and spill it by ready pudding. Scatter a crumble on the cake. After put it to the oven and bake it for 35 - 40 minutes in 180 degrees centigrade or to momment when crumble change colour to gold. After take from oven put in to the frige for all night.


A few word from us:
This cake was delicious but we had many problems... When we started cooking we noticed that we haven't got a milk. We had to go to shop and buy it. Spoon was in was in the pot with pudding, eggs were flying and flour was on the floor. But we had happy end.

Regional dishes - pancakes by students from Russia and Finland

To watch the presentation created by students from Russia and Finland click the black arrow in the picture below.

Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Regional dishes - apple pie by Luiza Pugavyova from St.Petersburg, Russia

Apple pie by Luiza Pugavyova from Russia

Regional dishes - Russia (main courses)

HOT RUSSIAN DISHES
To watch the presentation created by students from Russia click the black arrow in the picture below.

Russian hot dishes

Regional dishes - Russia by Victoria Trefilova, 9a form, St.Petersburg, Russia

RUSSIAN SOUPS
To watch the presentation created by Victoria from Russia click the black arrow in the picture below.

Russian Soups

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Ola Koszyk from Poland

Aleksandra Koszyk, 14, Poland, Lublin

Sopot

This in beautiful place!! I have good memories...

I would like go to Paris and hot countries.

Hunger in the world. I dread plague spiders!!

I felt happy when my friends are near.

I will live in Lublin. Beautiful and big family, is my dream....

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Kasia Wierzchoń from Poland

I'm Kasia Wierzchoń and I'm 14 years old. I'm from Lublin in Poland.
In the photo I'm in the mountain.
1. I like this place because this is one of the most beautiful place in country. There are a lot of fantastic views.
2. My biggest wish is travel around the world.
3. I worries abouth a lot of steal in the world.
4. Happiness for me is a kind of affectin, which people don wont to change.
5. In ten years I have a work and I be very happy.

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Alicja Niczyporuk from Poland

Criss cross - here I feel well

• Name: Alice
• Age: 15
• Country: Poland
• City: Lublin
• Place: home

My favourite place is my home, because this is space, where I have a rest. In home lives my parents and dog which I love.

My biggest wish is this to good won evil.

Many thing worries me. One of these things is that some people bad treat pets and animals.

In my opinion happiness is then when smile appears on our face.

Happiness is then when nothing happens bad and everything is fine - for example we are healthy.

For 10 years I will be student medicine, because I want to be a doctor.

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Mateusz Gąsiorowski from Poland

Mateusz, 14, Poland, Lublin, favourite place: Spain - Lloret de Mar.

This place is special for me, because I was here only one time, but it's a magic place. There's very hot, and there's a very clean and beautiful sea. All country is so beautiful, I'm so amazed with this place.

My biggest wish is, to I will finish studies with an award, and to have a good job.

Greenhouse effect and the ozone hole worries me.

Happines is for me an emotion, feeling, when i fell good and safe.

When I will be 10 years older, I want to have family and good job.

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - byJanek Cholożyński from Poland

Hi.
My name is John. I'm fourteen years old and I'm from Poland. I live in city called Lublin.
On this photo you can see me in Tatra mountains. It's the highest mountain range in Poland. It's one of my favourite place, because there are a breathtaking views. I love hiking mountains, because then I can see how nature is beautiful.
My biggest wish is travelling all over world. I would like to visit a lot of places where I could admire nature and forget about problems. One of my dream is seeing the biggest African island - Madagascar. I think, it would be interesting experience for me.
I often worry about my homework. The learning is taking a lot of my free time away.
My happiness is my family, my friends and my favourite football club - Wisła Kraków. How would I describe happiness? Happiness is positive emotion which makes me happy.
My future is riddle for me. I've never thought about what will I do in ten years. I prefer concentrate for the present time than future.

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Iga Wiśniewska from Poland

Hi! My name is Iga, but call me Mysterious :) I'm 15 years old and I'm from Poland.
At the picture you can see my fortress. Here is my own world. I feel well in my bedroom, because it's so far from school, and inter alia I can meet friens here. There are books, computer, my guitar - everything I need!
My biggest wish: Hm... Playing guitar like Santana ;D
My worries: My eternal bad luck.
Happiness for me: Friends who take care on you, and are always with you.
My future: I will take a bath in milion of dolars, which was earned by my fantastic book. ;D

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Victoria Trefilova from Russia

My favourite place… Unfortunetly this is the place where I`ve never been.
That place is Las-Vegas city. This is a fantastic city with its tall, shining buildings, casinos and fabulous streets. Las-Vegas is a never-sleeping city. So, it is really for my temper.
I wish to visit it once. There is a lot of places I`d like to visit someday. Las-Vegas, Tokyo, Niagara, London, Cuba… It would be too long to list all of them.
Dreams, dreams… There`s a lot of places I`d like to visit, as you see. There`s also a lot of things I`d like to do. I wish to open my own shelter for animals. I dream about it since I was 5 years old. I guess, because life of animals really worries me.
To help somebody to survive… Isn`t it happiness? For me it is. But people can`t dream only about somebody`s good destiny. We all dream about our own happiness. But if somebody dreams about new Ferrari, somebody else dreams about a plate of soup… It`s sad, isn`t it? I can definitely say, that I am a happy person. I`ve got clothes to wear, food to eat. I`ve got people I love. People, who love me. That`s enough to feel happy.
There`re a lot of people, who have got almost everything, but don`t appreciate it, and want more and more. This is not a crime. We all want to make our life better and better. We always make plans for the future. So do I. For example in future I plan to finish the school, go to college, and after open my own travel company. Well, we`ll see…

Victoria Trefilova, St. Petersburg, Russia

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Kate from Russia

Hi, my name is Kate. I’m 15 years old. I’m from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
My favorite place is Palma de Mallorca. It’s an island in Spain. I love Mallorca because of white sandy beaches, warm Mediterranean Sea and soft climate. On Mallorca I can relax and have a rest from all. Anyway for me it’s really a cool place..
My biggest wish…Certainly I have a biggest wish. I’ve got many desires: I want that my family and friends will happy and healthy, I want to study well… But as we all know the BIGGEST WISHES cannot be told, otherwise they won’t come true… :)
What worries me? Probably I have some things worrying me, but I don’t consider it is necessary to tell about all this. Just I can say that study worries me at the moment.
What will I do in ten years? Hm, I don’t know exactly the answer to this question. Currently I should study well because my future depends from it.
At last I want to argue about happiness. What’s happiness for me? How would I describe it? Of course my happiness is well-being ofvmy darling people (I mean family, friends).I’m happy that I can eat good food, drink pure water… My friends also make me happy, they help and support me. And I really need them so much. I love them. But honestly I consider that I’m a not a happy person, though it could sound strange. I definitely have reasons to consider so.
But no. I don’t want to complain of my «unhappy» life. I love my life. Maybe even too much. God gives us life only once. And I think we should live it adequately whatever we are happy or not. «There is no happy life there are only happy days».

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Louisa Pugavyeva from Russia

CRISS CROSS-Here I feel well
Hi! My name is Louise! I am 16 years old. I live in Russia, in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg.
I am keen on swimming and playing the drums. I like the streets of St. Petersburg ... Each of them is like a new world.. They’re all seemingly identical, but in fact very different ...
In the future I want to open my veterinarian shelter, that would help the homeless and needy animals ... This problem worries me since my childhood ...
As for me happiness, I think that for me is enough what I have: good and faithful friends, family, pets, and it makes me happy))))
I do not know what will happen to me in 10 years, but I hope that everything will be fine and I'll do what I want ...)))
Louisa Pugavyeva from Russia

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Margaret Miroshnichenko from Russia

Criss Cross – Here I fell well

My favourite place is Pushkin city, because there is wonderful architecture and beautiful nature. It`s near my native city Saint-Petersburg. There is a very beautiful Catherine`s Garden in Pushkin. A lot of people like walking there.
I want love and health to my relatives. I want money. I know, it isn`t happiness, but they have a soothing effect. Money can help to decide anything problems.
My study is worries me. There is soon the end of the trim in my school. I want to receive high marks. I don`t want to upset my farther.

Happiness for me is relatives` and friends` smile on the face. When they are happy, but happiness is a temporary state.

What will I do in ten years? I will reach new goals. I hope that I will live in a big house, have a good job. Do I want my own happy family? No. I think, it will be too early.




Margaret Miroshnichenko, 15
Russia/Saint-Petersburg

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Dasha Drobalova from Russia

Hi. My name is Dasha. I'm 15 years old and I am from Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
My favorite place is my native city because it's very beautiful and in my city live people which I love.
My biggest wish. I've got many many wishes but now my education is the thing which I want to get and which worries me.
Also, my future work is worries me. I want to get interesting and prestige work in future. And it depends from my study. I should study well!
What is happiness for me? And how would I describe it? My happiness is good time-spending with my friends. When family and friends are happy it makes me happy!
I don't know precisely what will I do in 10 years. I think I have a lot of time to decide it :)

Regional dishes: a Finnish dish prepared by Polish students - Karolina, Magda S., Ola, Kasia and Patryk, class 3i

Finnish Potato Salad 8 boiled potatoes 1 apple 1-2 pickled cucumbers 1 red onion 2 tbsp capers Dressing: 200 g sour cream 2 dl mayonnaise 2-3 garlic cloves ? tsp salt ? tsp black pepper

Cut the peeled potatoes, the apple and the cucumbers into small cubes. Peel and chop the onion. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Mix the dressing ingredients together and combine with the salad. Allow to settle in a cool place before serving.

We were doing it for about 2 hours but it was wotrh it everything was tasty, we will definately use this receipe again

Karolina Jabłońska
Magdalena Siczek
Aleksandra Ostrowska
Katarzyna Kałan
Patryk Andrejas
Class III i

Regional dishes: German cookies prepared by Polish students from class IIIi: Magda L., Aga D., Asia Sz.

Chocolate Cookies from Germany

Recipe:

2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 bars German chocolate, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt, grated rind 1/2 lemon, 1-1/3 cups almonds (blanched and chopped), 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder.


Beat eggs until light, add sugar, gradually, and continue the beating; then add chocolate, grated and add extant components, and remaining ingredients. Drop from tip of spoon on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.

Proceedings:
First we went to shop and bought components. Than we started doing cookies. This work was hard, but we kept smile. When mass was finished we activated a moderate oven.
When cookies was baked we tried to eat them, but we forgot that they are still hot XD We waited a couple of minutes and then tried them. They tasted delicious! Yummy! We are really good cooks! ;]

Cooks: Magda L., Aga D., Asia Sz. from III i

Regional dishes: a Russian dish prepared by Polish students from class IIIi: Alicja, Kinga, Ewelina and Kasia

Russian fritters

Ingredients:
-2 glasses of flour
-glass of milk
-glass of water
-2 eggs
-salt
-pepper
-stuffing:
4 medium potatoes
25O grams white cheese
big onion cut into cubes
bacon or ham
salt
pepper
parsley
Preparation:

1.All the ingredients mix for cake pancakes and fry in oil.

2.Potatoes minced with white cheese, add chopped and fried onion with bacon, season to taste.

3.For each pancake, impose a portion of stuffing, wrap.

Enjoy your meal!

Our dish was very tasty and crispy. Kinga was most liked but for others it was spicy. It looked very delicious. This meal was laborious. We worked three hours. This dish is at the same time on autumnal day.






Alicja, Kinga, Ewelina and Kasia, class 3i

Criss Cross- Here I feel well - by Melania from Poland

Hi, my name's Melanie and I'm fourteen years old. I live in Lublin, Poland.
My favorite place is Bad König, Germany. It's a small town and that's precisely why it's so special. I've always liked many things related to Germany - the language, the food, the way that Germans supposedly were. Finally, last summer, I went to my dream-country - my biggest wish has come true. All I heard about Germany from my dad was true; for example, people were so much nicer than here, in Poland (I know how it sounds, but it's true). When I was getting back home, it felt like the worst part of my holiday.
Currently, since my really big wish has come true, I have another one. I want to go to Iceland. This country fascinates me - Icelandic language and people, and how it is there.
Right now, one of my biggest worries is getting bad marks in school, because there's so much homework to do, so much subjects to study, the exams all the time and the final exams coming up - and so little time for all this. I know it's normal, but still, it's tough. I hope I can handle this.
Happiness... When I think about happiness, I can hear music. Nothing specific, it depends on what band or song I'm in love with at the moment. Music is my happiness. I'm learning how to play guitar, so I hope I'll be able to play my favorite songs. It would be another dream come true.
I think, and I hope, that in ten years I'm going to study English in Seattle, WA, USA. It's my dream-city and dream-subject (I've got lot of those dream-things). I'm not sure if I want my future work to have anything to do with English, but I want to study it so I can write a book someday (another dream-thing; either just for me or to have it published - doesn't matter). Hopefully, I'm going to have a wonderful, inspiring flancé or even a husband. Also, I'm going to be a successful woman that's leading her dream-life (or at least something close to it) and is happy about how things are.





Melania, class 2b