Tothill

My ex tried to convince me to make home made Perogies. Nope not going to happen. I just buy Cheemo brand ones at the grocery store. I am not fond of them, as I have to limit the wheat and dairy in my diet. But I cooked frozen ones at least one a month for 22 years. I have not cooked them in the last 5.5 years.

Cabbage rolls I love, but I take the easy way out and make it as a casserole instead of making individual rolls. Much more efficient time wise.

pocoellie

I also have never had perogies, and looking at the King Arthur site, it looks like a lot of work, especially for someone who doesn't like to cook. LOL

NikkiLu

Mrs. T's - I think - is a very good brand of frozen pierogies - I think that they only have potato filled ones. I was raised on home-made ones that my aunt made. I tried to make them once after I was married and they were as big as footballs - LOL

Murphy224

Another girl who hasn't had pierogies either. I watched Martha Stewart and her mom make them on Martha's tv show many years ago and thought.....man, that is a lot of work! Good to know the frozen ones and the brand name ones that are good. Will look for and prepare them next time I am looking for something new to try.
Also didn't know the name "white fry" but I like it. Have cooked cabbage, apple, and onion together for years. Just called it fried cabbage with apples and onions. If I had it handy would add fresh celery, but the celery seeds sound good too. Really like the name White Fry though. The things we learn on a quilting forum.

tropit

Mrs. T's is what I get too. They also have some onion ones. I'm not really sure if the potato ones have any cheese in them.

~ C

roguequilter

i've never heard the term white fry either. we just called it fried cabbage ..onions, chopped bacon fried then add sliced cabbage. i love it ..but hubs doesn't eat cabbage, at all. so no saurkraut, no fried cabbage ....and no fried hominy either!

roguequilter

i love making home made bread. have done many things with the various types dough over the years. sons favorite was the "burrito" bread. but he and his friends loved LOVED the perogis too . i first had them from russian shop in san francisco in the late sixties. found recipes later and developed more recipe versions of my own.
i love making them.
no more work than a nice quilt

Iceblossom

Too funny, "white fry" is what my son named it to differentiate it from stir fry (which was brown from the soy sauce). While you can brown the pierogis a bit, we were more of a boiled and done family and so the entire dinner would be just white and more white, and if you added anything it would be potatoes and/or applesauce so still no color except maybe a sprinkle of cinnamon or paprika.

My grandmother did have a name for it but I don't remember it, and generally just referred to it as green cabbage with apples and onions to differentiate it from red cabbage. I really do love a big pot of the sweet/sour red cabbage too, there are some things I've just never been able to make in small batches and that is one of them and isn't as loved by the rest of the family. Although my grandfather was a produce manager for Safeway, it was his sister, my great aunt who was the really good cook and so I didn't really learn how to make a lot of the family dishes but I did grow up eating them when we were living locally enough to do so. Since my dad was in the army, that wasn't often but it was what was served when we he was "coming home" and we were visiting. My mom's side of the family is German but her mother was 6th of 10 I think and she never learned to cook. My mother was a pretty good cook in the 1950s Betty Crocker style of cooking and could really bake up some yeast goods and an excellent pie crust, but is not very adventurous in eating or adding to her repertoire. So she made a mean meatloaf and not the stuffed cabbage rolls that my grandmother would have made.

BTW, yes, you can use celery with the white fry too. I'm more apt to chop the inner leaves finely and use them. If you do use the stalk itself, you do want to start the celery and apples first, then add the onions, and finally the cabbage.

tropit

Yummm...please describe, "burrito bread."

~ D

Iceblossom

For those that haven't tried them, the frozen ones are usually quite adequate. Of course, they aren't like the one's grandma made (sometimes they are better). We have the Mrs T brand frozen pierogies here, they do come in a couple of different options depending on your local store. Think of them like the Czech version of ravioli. You can just boil them, or then brown them in butter, or make a sauce to cover them or a sauce to dip them in...

Makes a nice addition to your diet if you want to have a meatless day or whatever. Most aren't fully vegan, but have dairy or eggs and are suitable for vegetarian or at least meatless.

And then there are what we called pieroshki -- baked "hot pocket" sort of things. Really good too. Prune filling, or I make more of a cinnamon roll variation with orange marmalade, poppy seeds, and walnuts. Tastes like grandma's house even if not quite right it appeals to my memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirozhki