Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> George Cebulka > wrote:
>
>> George Cebulka wrote:
>>> Dimitri wrote:
>>>> OK the "Who taught you to cook" post got me thinking:
>>>>
>>>> What did your grandmother cook that you miss the most:
>>>>
>>>> Russian Stroganoff, Stuffed Cabbage,
>>>> Greek Avgolemano soup, Loukomathes, cutlets & Greek/Russian Easter
>>>> cheese Pascha, Rice Pilaf
>>>> Step Grandmother - Pasta Sauce, Spaghetti Carbonara, & Gnocchi.
>>>>
>>>> Dimitri
>>> Slovak: stuffed cabbage, goulash, poppy seed bread and walnut
>>> rolls.... And she cooked all of it on a wood burning kitchen stove...
>>> *sigh* god but my Bubba could cook...
>> *SMACK* (that was the sound of me giving myself a dope slap) ..... I
>> forgot once of my Bubba's best dishes..... Pierogi ... Home made...tasty
>> , wonderful pierogi.... potato, saurkrute, poratoe and chesse, potato
>> and saurkrute, prune (yup, prune)...*sigh* I miss my bubba...
>
> Do you make pirohy, George? ("Pierogi" is the Polish word.) I make a
> few prune pirohy around the Christmas holiday; that was the only time
> Mom made them (for Christmas Eve's meatless supper). Sometimes I cook
> and mash prunes, other times I just plump the whole pitted ones and dip
> them in cinnamon sugar before encasing them in the properly cut dough
> squares.
>
> I have a good dough recipe. Mom spins in her grave when she sees me
> rolling the dough with a pasta machine, though. :-) My dough involves
> a small cooked potato and it does not involve sour cream as some do.
>

Whew! Glad somebody else has heard of Prune pirohy (Sorry about the
other spelling, Pittsburgh is Polish centric... ). The last time I
mentioned prune pirohy to somebody I got such a look of disbelief I
almost thought I imagined eating them...
I haven;t tried making them for a long time. Would it be possible to
get you dough recipe, since I don;t own a pasta maker, I think your mom
spirit will approve....