She also offers nalesniki, also called crepes a la Polonaise, prepared in the Polish way as served during the Christmas celebration. The crepes are filled with a mixture of creamed cottage cheese, raisins and nuts, then topped with sour cream. A third sweet treat are knes, which are made by mixing mashed potatoes with flour and eggs, then tearing off pieces of the dough and deep-frying them. They are served with sour cream. Potato pancakes also are one of the specialties at the Cracovia stand, operated by Walter and Krystyna Drobny.
Nothing is from packages.
We peel and grate the potatoes, add flour, seasonings, a little grated onion and eggs. The potatoes need to be freshly grated. Otherwise, they would turn black, she said. No chemical preservatives are used. If potatoes seem to be everywhere at Polish Fest food stands, it's not surprising.