How Polish food can become hip ?

Lets turn Polish kitchen upside down. No meat, no cheese, no eggs, no butter, no fish in other words we will be  cooking  and eating diet strongly based  on plants. Why you asking ? No I am not  crazy . Polish food  is awesome,  but not  necessary healthy. I am Polish dude 45 years old and I am not using any animals products in  my diet ,cooking is my hobby , specially polish dishes , like my mama thought me .... yes     I am a  mama boy  ,and she taught me how to cook.

If you interested how to loose  weight, build muscle and have stamina for exercises ( those fun one too) you may find some tips  in this  blog . Why vegan food? First at  all, vegan is sexy . Can you imagine any animal based products being sexy???? piece of meat is not sexy is just  piece  of meat.
What about  all those  veggies and fruit, almost everything from mother nature is sexy.
Banana, peach, apple, pear, plum, cabbage (?) carrot.... Second ( or maybe should be  number 0ne) vegan is healthy . But  lets keep  this  blog  short and sweet, so lets just look below for first polish /vegan dish

 "Golabki"(Cabbage Rolls)

"Golabki"(Cabbage rolls)  best cooked  wearing yoga  outfit, so   you can do some  warriors posture while preparing  that awesome  dish  because will take  some time to make it. Make  sure  you don't snack during preparing  meal ( I always do ) so you can  eat more  latter .

You going to do some shopping first  . Best ingredients are organic and  none GMO . But if you can't get organics ( WH is so  expensive ) none organic will do. Always ask questions at  your local store.
We as peeps we have tremendous power in our wallets . Every dollar is a vote .I am shopping for  veggies and fruit  at Caputo http://caputomarkets.com/t/StoresNaperville ( my personal sex shop)
Shopping list ( you can copy and paste )
All Prices are estimates and also change with season .

Prep  time about 1 hr
Cooking time 25 min
Whole dish is under $ 10.00 and will make around 25-30 golabki

You will need:

1 Savoy Cabbage 
4  heads of  portabella mushrooms ( big)  buy loose less expensive  2.5 2 yellow onion 
4 carrots  
1 cup of  white Rice  ( brown more healthy ) 
1 teaspoon  earth bound coconut spread  
1 jar  tomato basil marinara from TJ 
1 tea spoon of pepper

• First strip cabbage naked (Remove leaves ). 
  
•  In a large saucepan boil water and add washed cabbage leaves and steam/ boil for 10 min. Not for too long be cause will become soft and easy to break it.

• Start cooking  rice  and  do your  first  warrior  pose so you will look cool if  someone will check on you in the kitchen .

• Chopped onions and  fry them in coconut spread ( or just in  water )

• Cut portabella mushrooms in small pieces and add them to  onions ( time for warrior 2 )

• Add chopped carrots  and  rice and  mixed  with onion and shrooms (this will be  your staffing )

• In the mean time put  the cabbage leaves out so  the can get cooler.

• Put few  broken leaves on side , (don't eat them by now you  must be hungry) wind removing pose will help with some cramps.

• You can  shave it down the  center stem  off the back the leave by  slicing thru horizontally 

Sound simply  enough???If  you don't know how, you can practice head stand.
Now you need some skills hands ( you can ask friend or spouse for help)
Place  mixture on each leaf; fold in sides. Starting at an unfolded edge, roll up leaf to completely enclose filling. Place seam side down in a skillet. In other words roll up like burrito.

Put about 1/2 cup of tomato basil marinara on bottom  deep cooking pot.

Spread some extra leaves on bottom of the  pot and place golabki seam side down in a skillet.
Make sure that they are tight and close together ( like little birds in nest seeking for  warm companion) on each layer put  some tomato basil marinara .

Cook medium high  for 20 min.
Awesome with mash potato and some mixes salad .
Time for eating.
Enjoy it