By next Thursday, everyone will be thinking about the large Thanksgiving Day dinner they will consume. The turkey, being the main focus of the feast will need to be prepared accordingly.  However, each Thanksgiving we scramble to find a way to improve, fix, or avoid last year’s turkey cooking shortfalls. And, each Thanksgiving, the good folks at Butterball try to provide turkey cooking advice to new and experienced cooks.

Butterball is a poultry company that is known as the turkey company. As a way of thanking their customers, the company provides their customers with Thanksgiving cooking tips and help each year. Whether you need a quick answer or a bit of guidance during the turkey cooking marathon, Butterball will be there for you FREE of charge. You can call them at 1-800-Butterball or send an e-mail to talkline@butterball.com.  And, on November 25th, 2008, they will host a live web chat with their turkey experts. They also have a lot of great Thanksgiving dinner cooking tips, recipes, and advice. For more information about your turkey preparation visit them at www.butterball.com.

Once you achieve your turkey cooking perfection, it would be nice to serve it in style. That’s when Dom itp comes in. Our selection of imported Polish porcelain dinner sets is the largest online. We have porcelain by Chodziez and Polska Porcelana, the two cornerstones in Polish porcelain. Feel free to e-mail us at info at domitp dot com or call us at 773-282-6430, and we will answer any questions you may have regarding our selection and we will take your order over the phone if you’d like.

Order your dinner set today and get it for Thanksgiving to serve your dinner.

Order any jug kettle and get it by Thanksgiving.

Are you baking this Thanksgiving?  Then you need a MAKUTRA mixing bowl with a wooden utensil and some baking tins. Get them just in time for Thanksgiving.

Not a turkey fan? Then pick-up the amazing electric potato grater or give someone an early Christmas gift before it sells out.  Order today, get it by Thanksgiving.

In order to ensure the delivery by Thanksgiving, you need to place your orders today (11-20-08).

For those of you in Chicago, we invite everyone to our retail locations where these products are available as well. If you got any questions feel free to e-mail us at info at domitp dot com.

Dom itp - European Houseware

1 E. Camp McDonald Rd.
Prospect Hts., IL 60076
(847) 222-7565

6840 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 282-6430

4747 N. Harlem Ave.
Harwood Hts., IL 60706
(708) 867-3802

Dom itp - Garden & Hardware Center

5212 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 545-5618

The upcoming week is the last full one before the Thanksgiving. As many of you are making traveling arrangements to visit family and friends for the Thanksgiving dinner, we hope that you find few minutes to visit our online store where there are several new products and few on SALE that I would like to present to you.

Newly arrived is the 100% natural honey from Wisconsin. Choose from light, dark, and honey with a real comb.

The kitchen linens are excellent for all your kitchen tasks.

The makutra mixing bowl is the authentic bowl imported from Poland. Mix all the ingredients for your favorite pastry (ciasto). Get it now before they’re gone for the holiday season.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, serve your diner in style on authentic Polish porcelain.

See the NEW styles and SELECTION of the CORDLESS electric water kettles. We have SANYO, BLACK & DECKER, TOASTESS, CLOER, KALORIK, and our own Dom itp brand.

We just received the final shipment of the electric potato graters for the Christmas season. The potato grater is an excellent kitchen appliance for fast, easy, and smooth preparation of your favorite potato dish. Get one, two, or three early as a Christmas gift before they are gone.

Get the wooden sled before its gone for the season. We have less than a dozen left and on SALE for $89.99 until November 30th.

For those of you in Chicago, we invite everyone to our retail locations where these products are available as well. If you got any questions feel free to e-mail us at info@domitp.com .

Dom itp - European Houseware

1 E. Camp McDonald Rd.
Prospect Hts., IL 60076
(847) 222-7565

6840 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 282-6430

4747 N. Harlem Ave.
Harwood Hts., IL 60706
(708) 867-3802

Dom itp - Garden & Hardware Center

5212 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 545-5618

Polish Cuisine (Kuchnia Polska) consists of Eastern/Central European culinary traditions. The Polish Cuisine (Kuchnia Polska) is robust in chicken and pork, and seasonal veggies (winter ones especially). Cabbage in particular, is a key ingredient in bigos (a stew with cabbage and meat) , golabki (cabbage rolls), and pierogi (with mushrooms and cabbage). The Polish cuisine is similar to that of other Slavic cuisines in terms of usage of kasha and other cereals. Polish cuisine is quite hearty and satisfying. Generally, the traditional Polish cuisine tends to be very demanding, and Poles give themselves an extended amount of time in order to prepare and enjoy their festive dishes. The Christmas eve dinner (Wigilia) and Easter breakfast usually take few days of preparation.

The main meal is served at around 2 in the afternoon and it usually consists of three courses. Soup, such as bouillon, tomato, pickle, or chicken is often served. During more festive meals barszcz (beet), zurek (sour rye meal mash), or mushroom soups are prepared, which are followed by an appetizer of herring often in a restaurant dinner setting. The main course is the centerpiece of the feast and consists of a roast or breaded pork cutlet (kotlet schabowy). Surowka, which is shredded root veggies with some lemon juice and sugar (carrot, celeriac, beetroot) or fermented cabbage (kapusta kwaszona) is considered the salad portion of the meal. However, leafed salads are often being replaced with coleslaw, grated beets (buraczki or cwikla).  Boiled potatoes or a more traditional kasha (cereals) is often served on the side. The meal is concluded with a dessert that often includes pastries. Makowiec (poppy seed cake), or drozdzowka (yeast cake) are the most notable pastries served with coffee.

I bet thinking about it just makes you hungry. Since the Polish cuisine can’t summarized in just one post, we decided to start adding Polish recipes to our blog to mix things up with our wonderful selection of Polish products. Some of the recipes with be very familiar while others will not, but they will all be selections from the Polish cuisine.

Do you have any favorite recipes that you would like to share with others? E-mail us and we will post them on our blog.

What is you favorite Polish dish?

Don’t forget to visit our Polish porcelain section, which makes serving your Polish cuisine a real treat to your guests.

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If you have any questions relating to our products or whether you are looking for a Polish product, feel free to visit our retail stores, or contact us by phone or email us at info at domitp dot com.

Dom itp - European Houseware

1 E. Camp McDonald Rd.
Prospect Hts., IL 60076
(847) 222-7565

6840 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 282-6430

4747 N. Harlem Ave.
Harwood Hts., IL 60706
(708) 867-3802

Dom itp - Garden & Hardware Center

5212 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
(773) 545-5618