What will wear you out more than a day of gardening? How about a day of making pierogi. Pretty much the Polish/Russian/Eastern European equivalent of tamales in the effort required department, we spent today from 11 until 5 pm. making pierogi or perogie depending on what ethnic tribe you suscribe to. These were something my mom learned to make from a Ukranian boyfriend she once had. With her prolonged illness and then passing 2 years ago I have not had Damitz made ones in 6 years. I have been able to hit up the Polish American festival once a year in Roseville for my pierogi fix. It ws supposed to rain this weekend when I made my original weekend plans so gardening was put on hold and the idea to make pierogi was hatched. To make a long story short we used a couple of recipes off the internet that are very similar to my moms. She did like to deviate from traditional ones and add hamburger meat. After hours of cooking, frying, boiling and packing we ended up with 120 artery clogging, buttery bombs of carbohydrates. Most were potato and cheese stuffed (Polish) but we made some sauerkraut stuffed (Russian) ones as well. I got a reprieve from helping clean up as I had to respond to a vehicle accident. Here are a couple links to good recipes:
http://home.comcast.net/~dyrgcmn/Pierogi/pierogi.html
http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/recipes/r/pierogies.htm
Here are some pics:
Yellow onions cooking in a stick of butter
Preparing the potato filling and dough
Potato and cheese filling
Dough shells cut out
Filling the shells
A couple of filled ones
Salt pork and onions to fry already boiled pierogi in
Pierogi boiling
The bounty. 120
Ready to be enjoyed with some sour cream
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