Years back had a Polish coworker (with the accent too) she cooked up a bunch of them for us at the Christmas holiday. Your post here helped me understand how its an intergral part of their holiday tradition. So thanks for the info.
My young, totally non-Polish son acquired a taste for pierogies when we visited a Polish festival and says that they are one of his favorite foods.
I was raised in a Slovak family and pierogies were a staple of the diet. My mom would spend hours and hours making them and my brothers and sister would absolutely demolish all of them in one sitting.
I remember four types: Lecvar, sauerkraut, cheese/potato and cottage cheese, dripping in butter with chopped sauteed onions. Um um good.
This thread brought a tear to my eye. In my mind I can still see my grandmothers making these . I’ve made them a few times throughout the years and have reduced myself to buying them from Schwann’s! Not bad but just not the same. God bless you, Baba and Merry Christmas.
My Polish mom made them, my favorite are the sweet cottage cheese ones. Wew also like the potato/cheese.