Famous Spanish and Polish People

On the 26th March the Polish students performed presentations about Spanish and Polish famous people. All students from our school gathered at the main hall could learn about great Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Aristide Maillol, brilliant architect Antoni Gaudí, modern Spanish famous sportsman Pedro Martínez de la Rosa and others.
They could find some more information about Polish great people as composer Fryderyk Chopin, writer Joseph Conrad, poet Adam Mickiewicz, king John III Sobieski, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and others.

Polish students, Mateusz and Honorata put up some materials, connected with famous Spanish and Catalan people, on the school’s wall. Those people are recognizable not only in Spain, but also in Poland and all over the world.

BOTIFARRA AMB MONGETES

Botifarra amb mongetes (sausage and beans)

It is a typical meal of the Catalonia country side. It has a very good taste. It was popular on the boarding houses in the XIX century.

INGREDIENTS

Beans

Sausage

INSTRUCTIONS

1.      We take the sausage and prick it with a knife. We put in the pan or barbecue, it must be well-done.

2.      While the sausages are cooking, put the beans in a pot with water and boil until they are tender and well done.

3.      When the sausage is cooked, we take it apart and sauté the beans in the pan where we have cooked the sausage.

4.      When both ingredients are ready, we put them on a dish.

By Roger Blanco and Miguel Galan

BREAD WITH TOMATO

Bread with tomato is typical from the country side, only in Catalonia, and normally you can eat it with ham, cheese or other sausages. Catalan people also make the sandwiches with bread with tomato. It can be a main dish or a secondary dish. 

INGREDIENTS-for 4 people

4 bread slices

2 ripe tomatoes

50g salt

25 ml olive oil

2 garlics (optional)

Ham, cheese or other sausages

INSTRUCTIONS

First of all you have to toast the bread and spread the garlic and tomato on top of it. Then, you have to put the oil and the salt. The bread with tomato is ready to eat, with cheese, ham or other sausages.

By Roc Altarriba, Ivan Luque and Xavi González

GLASS CAKE

Glass cake is a typical Catalan recipe. It is called glass cake because when we take it out of oven and we spread the anise, the sugar crystallizes and it looks like glass. It is slim and hard. It’s difficult to stop eating glass cake because the smell of the anise makes you want to eat more and more. Glass cake is good to eat in any hour of the day and it’s an economical recipe to prepare. In conclusion, if you want to eat a delicious and different dish and you aren’t good at cooking, this is one of your best options.

Ingredients:
- 8g salt
- 15g yeast
- 350g flour
- 180ml water
- 25g butter ( at room temperature)
-sugar
-aniseeds

- extra virgin olive oil

- pine nuts

Instructions for the dough: 

-          Dissolve the yeast in the water. Put the flour and salt in a bowl and mix, then add the butter, the sugar and the yeast with the water.

-          Knead for 10 minutes. Form a ball with the dough, cover and let stand 10 minutes

-          Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.

-          Roll out the dough with a rolling pin (it has to be thin) and put it on a tray lined with baking paper. 

-     Make an oval shape with the dough (because this is the original shape of it).

-          Paint with a brush all the base of cake with oil, and later add pine nuts on top and sprinkle with sugar.

-          Bake it for 10 to 15 minutes.

-           When you take the cake out of the oven, sprinkle with the aniseeds and put back in the oven for a few minutes.

by Ariadna Torrents, Júlia Recordà and Clàudia Cortina

CATALAN FOOD

The Polish students will visit our school in Spain very soon, in May!!!
They will have to eat different food and dishes.
Catalonia is known for its excellent Mediterranean food. The dishes are characteristic for using essential ingredients like olive oil, garlic and tomatoe, which gives Catalan dishes the special Mediterranean flair.
In general you can find three kinds of Catalan cuisine. There is the cuisine from the mountains, with meat, cheese, sausages and vegetables, the cuisine of from the coast which includes fish with rice, pasta or potatoes, and finally there is the cuisine from the cities with its diversity of traditional and international meal.
Our students have prepared several basic typical Catalan recipes for the Polish students to see and try at home.
We hope you enjoy them

In February 21 students from Gimnazjum in Juszczyna started 20 hour course of Spanish preparing them for their visit in Spain. The course contains basic vocabulary and grammar rules as well as conversational lessons.