Posted on 08/04/2023 5:58:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff
This pierogi recipe for Polish dumplings has been a family favorite from generation to generation. We traditionally make these for Christmas, but they can be made for any special event. There's some work involved, but the outcome is rewarding! The boiled pierogies can be fried in butter and onions or served with sour cream.
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But when it was Polish ravioli night, I ate up the pierogi's, no questions asked.
I know I was a brat, but now I love kielbasa and sauerkraut.
Memories.
Mom and dad would make about 250 pierogies at a crack...yes special occasions. I always have some in the freezer...not quite the same....but always come with onions, butter and fond memories.
My last meal on this planet would be that. Without the onions. Just LOTS of sour cream.
And that is *should be fried in *butter*. Boiled pierogies alone seem like they'd be disgusting and slimy.
Dumplings can also be called pot stickers
like at TGIFridays and Chinese restaurants
have them. In New England they’re called
Peking Ravioli; nicknamed by restaurant
owner & TV chef Joyce Chen who wanted
the name to appeal to the many Italian-Americans in New England
First time I made them was for a Christmas dinner. I made them Christmas Eve and had 6 dozen big ones on trays on the kitchen counter.
Left for a late Christmas Eve service, came home and the empty trays were on the floor. My black lab looked like a balloon and was sick for days.
Had pierogis visiting Pittsburgh
including as part of a Strip District
Bits and Bites tour
The lekvar ones are my favorite.
I grow and can the super sweet onions just for making pierogies.
They are so sweet you can eat them like apples.
PLEASE STOP the food posts. I’m getting hungry and home sick. First it was cabbage rolls and now kielbasa and sauerkraut. Next you will be bringing up Haluski recipes. Looks like it’s time to bring out the old Slovak-American cookbook and make some nut and poppyseed Kolachi just because I can. 😂
Fried in light butter not too greasy. Onion powder not onions. I like the sweet ricotta filling best, potato and cheese second. After many many years making them from scratch I make them now with wonton wrappers. Thinner and I just use beaten egg to seal them up. Round off the corners with scissors if you like. The edges get crispy.
We would visit my grandma every Sunday, and she would give us a loaf of kalachi to go, it was gone by Monday morning.
No, fry them in smalec.. aka bacon grease.. then bacon bits on top. Onions and butter are OK too
Have you apologized to your mom yet? I’m sure she would appreciate you telling this to her directly. Then, like the loving mother I’m sure she is, she would forgive you readily.
In fact, I’m fairly certain she’s forgiven you for your complaining long before now.
Just potato and cheese. Thank you.
I haven’t made them (from scratch) but I do have a dog eating the dinner story. Our rescue had been found eating rocks at a park to fill her belly. Just a week or two after we adopted her, I had an accident in the family room, where we were beginning to have hotdogs and kraut for dinner. I had to go to to the emergency room. The new puppy ate all of the hotdogs, with or without sauerkraut and mustard. Had a belly ache, but was mostly ok. She was better off than me!
I split an order of pirogies with my daughter on Tuesday at the neighborhood bar. They were pretty decent, but nothing like what I had growing up at my Polish girlfriend’s house. In fact, I’ve never had any that matched those. Her mother could cook. The holidays were filled with incredible Polish dishes. Even after we went out separate ways and I’d find ways to visit at Christmas for the food. I would come from college for winter break and call her hoping that her mom would answer the phone, which invariably she did because she was the gatekeeper of the phone for six daughters. Once I had mom on the phone I only had to mention how much I enjoyed her cooking from last Christmas and I would get an invite to come over for dinner. Great memories.
I have, no doubt you were not a picky eater when you were young.
Farmer’s cheese from the Polish deli? Then yes.
Sauerkraut & mushrooms pierogies, apple ones for desert.
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