It very slightly remember a traditional meal here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locro You mix white corn, beans, pumpkin and whatever piece of meat you can grab, with some extra vegetables, bones more meat, sausage and whatever that is edible, and cook it for a long time (but usually less than a day), but it's always better the next day.
Thinking about it, I'd add an option to double the amount of some ingredients. For example some people like no onion, but others like a lot of onion.
There are several Polish dishes that boil down to throwing whatever is edible into a single pot and boiling for hours. Bigos is mostly cabbage, gulasz is like very thin gravy, leczo has lots of red pepper and zucchini, jarzynowa (literally "vegetable soup") has no set ingredients at all.
The soup stone is missing. My grandpa was from Vilnius which was part of Poland when he left. They always had soup on the stove every day all day and one of the things in it was always a stone to hold something (herbs?) at the bottom. It was such a part of the family that they weren't sure who was going to inherit the stone - it went to the oldest son.
I remember back in Siberia, USSR my parents were making bigos often enough when I was a kid. Had no idea it was polish food. We have no Poles in our ancestry
My brother-in-law had this daily for 6 months while being in custody. Now he cant even stand near food carts that serve it. Never really liked it myself, because if there is a choice available, there is most likely a better dish right next to bigos, but one time i had it at a rest stop after a long day of hiking and all i can think of is how amazing was the taste and how well i slept after eating that. I could've sworn the cook put something in it because i am not sure i've ever had a better night of sleep since. Just the most refreshing, warmest and regenerating night of sleep in less than optimal conditions.
that site came up on here a couple times, the code and long form descriptions is obviously written with claude but there is 100% a real chef behind it.
all photos look real and the actual recipe cards dont have signs of ai so he probably writes them himself. i would trust the calculators too.
Traditional bigos was made with lemons, not sauerkraut. Lemons, meat and a lot of oriental spices to cover the scent of rancid meat (there were no refrigerators at the time) and show off the prestige of szlachta. Then peasants copied the meal using whatever was available to mimick the taste, and that's how we have bigos in modern/contemporary cuisine.
Bigos is a staple food in Thea: the Awakening, where crafting cooked food gives your expeditions bonuses. Had never heard of it before that but it fits the Slavic setting.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 32.5 ms ] threadThinking about it, I'd add an option to double the amount of some ingredients. For example some people like no onion, but others like a lot of onion.
Edit: In case you are curious, recipe by "Paulina Cocina" that usually has easy and tasty recipes (in Spanish) https://www.paulinacocina.net/receta-de-locro-argentino/9829
Always nice to sample the neighbors cuisine :)
all photos look real and the actual recipe cards dont have signs of ai so he probably writes them himself. i would trust the calculators too.
Fun fact, it gets gradually better with each reheating