Ireland eat of potatoes a week. Consequently, dishes that are considered as national dishes represent a fundamental unsophistication to cooking, such as the Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, boxty, a type of potato pancake, or colcannon, a dish of mashed potatoes and kale or cabbage. Since the last quarter of the 20th century, with a re-emergence of wealth in Ireland, a "New Irish Cuisine" based on traditional ingredients incorporating international influences has emerged. This cuisine is based on fresh vegetables, fish (especially salmon, trout, oysters, mussels and other shellfish), as well as traditional soda breads and the wide range of hand-made
Pyzy (dish) Pyzy (dish) Pyzy () are a type of dumpling (kluski). The dish is most commonly referred to in its plural for "pyzy", as it is most commonly served as a main course meal: large oval-shaped kluski, characteristic to Polish cuisine. Potato pyzy are prepared from boiled potatoes, optionally with added flour, eggs and salt, cooked in boiling water. Stuffed with meat, twaróg or mushroom stuffing, alternatively served without stuffing, and instead served with bacon, lard or fried onion. Dishes prepared similar to pyzy are inter alia: kartacze, goły, potato knedle and Silesian dumplings ("kluski śląskie"). Leavened pyzy or "pyzy drożdżowe"