Pierogies....saurkraut or potato?
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I've never had a pierogi with just sauerkraut...it was always potato and sauerkraut. I feel like just sauerkraut would be awful lol
To me, sauerkraut in a pierogi sounds nasty. Meat pierogis mmmmm.
Okay I have to do more research on pierogis. Potatoes with all of that stuff I've heard of but blueberry pierogis? Really?
Potatoes and cheese.
Potatoes and kraut.
Prune
Potatoes cheese and bacon.
And the dough matters as much as anything +
butter and onion ...
Potatoes and kraut.
Prune
Potatoes cheese and bacon.
And the dough matters as much as anything +
butter and onion ...
The best are sweet cabbage with onions and butter! Sorta like a haluski wrap!
Wandering Spectator
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Mrs Ts has more and more flavors all the time. Good stuff. Not home made but very good for the price. I like them with some hot sauce. Love the sour cream and chive. You can prepare them however you like. I'm not against making dough but mashing potatoes and all that other work is not for me unless I'm crowd pleasing. A little bird told me the most popular Mrs T flavor is still the traditional cheddar and out-sells all the others combined by a large margin.
Wandering Spectator
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Potato.
Kraut gravy on top. Or butter and onions.
Sour cream and hot sauce are also good.
Kraut gravy on top. Or butter and onions.
Sour cream and hot sauce are also good.
Potato and Cheddar made by the ladies at the church.
Lekvar pierogies (prune filled) are good. Never heard of blueberry though.
The Polish store in my town in central NJ sells many varieties of pierogy, including blueberry and strawberry, which I refer to as dessert pierogies.
Pierogies (Vareneky in Ukrainian) come in all flavors. For homemade ones, you can order on line from various Polish/Ukrainian deli web sites such as Veselka or Polana or Piast unless you're lucky enough to live near a Polish deli. They will ship them frozen and they are so much better than Mrs. Ts.
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Or you can be lucky enough to be Polish and marry someone who is also Polish. 🙂
Mrs Ts makes product for discount and club places who then fly it under their label. I don't know if Costco is one of them but I know of at least one such place they contract for. So you may or may not be buying the same thing under a different label. They do alter the production somewhat for contract stuff.
Neither but I'm that weird person that does do "dips"...I eat fries without ketchup
Wandering Spectator
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Yea. These aren’t private label though. And you can tell. The dough is much lighter than Mrs T’s.
I do get a kick out of people who say that just because the same company manufactures the product, it has to be the same. In the vast majority of the cases, it’s not. Period. The name brand is not going to provide the same product to private label for less. They will alter the product in some way, shape, or form.
I found the link to the product.
Kasia's Potato & Cheese Pierogi | Award-Winning
Voted Chicago's Best. Traditional European dumplings filled with fresh Idaho potatoes, baker’s cheese and minced yellow onion.
www.kasiasdeli.com
I see very little difference between Kasia's and Mrs T's but to each their own. Both are good and similar.
My Grandmother always made a small batch of prune filled ones whenever we had potato and cheese filled ones, which was quite often. She could roll out and shape pierogies faster than any human I have ever seen even in her 80s. Man, I miss the old days!
If someone has only had pierogies out of a box or bag, then they have never really experienced a pierogi. The commercial ones are quite bland compared to the ones Babka, Babcia and now I make.
My mother was one of those ladies and she made plenty at home also. FWIW she and they used Longhorn cheese mixed with mashed potatoes. Longhorn is very similar to cheddar but she always insisted on longhorn
My "Babci", (Polish for grandma) made the most incredible kraut ones that you could ever imagine!!!! I haven't had one since she passed some 30+ years ago.
Good call there. Now that you say it I remember my grandmother and mother using longhorn cheese as well. Don’t find it and stores much anymore.
I love longhorn cheese. I'm not sure if I've ever had it in pierogies though.
