Halina's Roll Up Cake Recipe

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup flour (direcly into a sifter)
Jam or filling of your choice (you can also use chunky Applesauce)

preparation: grease a jelly roll pan or baking sheet, cover with parchment paper and grease the parchment paper as well. You will need 2 bowls and a hand mixer.

take the 3 eggs and the sugar and blend with a hand mixer until sugar is dissolved and mixture is velvety in texture. Continue to mix and add flour into mixture in small incriments (aprox. 1 Tbsp at a time) Continue to blend until all flour is added and mixture is very smoothe and light.

Bake at 200 C (400 F) for aprox. 15 min.

after the cake is baked you must work fast. remove the cake in paper from the pan and the paper from the cake. Lay on an additional clean sheet of parchment paper. Once paper has been removed spread your filling quickly over 3/4 of the cake and start to roll from the end that is covered towards the end without filling. As you roll the filling will move and cover everything. Once rolled cover with the parchment paper it is on and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

To serve. Cut off the ends, sprinkle with powdered sugar, slice and serve!

Placki Jabklowe (apple pancakes)

2 cups flour
2 eggs
1 c. milk

mix together to make batter

peel and grate 2-3 large or 4-5 small apples, add to batter

put about 2 Tbsp oil in a pan and bring to med-high heat. Use large spoon to spoon batter into oil, flip when golden. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top and serve!

Another family favorite. I remember when Izabela was 6 month old, and my father in law came over and wanted to help me out. I came home from church one day and he made these for lunch to surprise me. They were on the table when I walked through the door. I have been told many times since how special that was, because apparently he has never cooked them for anyone else!

Nalisniki

3 eggs
2 c. flour
1 1/2 c. yogurt, milk or seltzer water
4 Tbsp evoo

fry in thin layer using circular motion to create a circular shape. Flip and fill with jam spreads, cheese anything savory, sweet anything goes! I learned how to make this from my mother in law when I was pregnant with Izabela. This was our first time in the kitchen together and something that Bart missed from home and wished I could learn to make. It is a family favorite. Bart loves it with fresh diced or sliced strawberries blended with cream and sugar. You fold each Nalisniki into a triangle and top with the sauce. I eat the same thing minus the cream. Izabela eats Nalisniki any way they come. It is something that we eat everytime we are with his parents in Warsaw or when they are here.

Aunt Jackies Lemon Tea Sparkler

2 litter chilled ginger ale
1/2 c. lemon juice concentrate
1/2 c. sugar
2 c. brewed tea
ice

mix and serve. makes 7 cups

Aunt Jackie's Zesty Punch sipper

1 bottle (64 oz) ginger ale
6 c. chilled pineapple orange juice
1 can frozen lemonade (6 oz.) thawed
1 orange and 1 lime each thinly sliced for garnish

combine all ingredients and put in punch bowl or 2 pitchers