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Good pirogi over surf and turf? Any day of the week
I find the best place to buy them around here is at Polish and Ukrainian churches. The Ukrainian version is called Varyniky (sp?) but they are usually are just sold as pirogi.
They are always available during the Lenten season, but a couple of churches cook them - and other goodies - all year long.
I am new to Polish food. I want down to a Polish store and picked up some frozen mushroom and frozen potato and sauerkraut pierogies. They are this brand http://lilaspierogi.com/ Hopefully they are decent!
I find Lebanese style stuffed grapeleaves are NEVER done right in restaurants. I have given up. I only eat my own or those prepared at other's homes.
Pasta carbonara. The last time I ordered it in a restaurant (a very old, established Italian one) the egg was raw. It was disgusting.
I’ve made it at home, but I probably won’t order it out again.
One of the two times I know I got food poisoning, it was from spaghetti carbonara at what was nominally a good Italian restaurant. I found out later one of the cooks left the egg yolks sitting out after being separated, on a shelf above the stove. One of the sickest nights and days of my life.
I now live in western PA. Until the current century—the current decade, really—pizza got my vote as "most screwed up restaurant dish."
Jamaican Jerk chicken or pork. Needs the really spicy seasoning, prepared fresh, and wood from the Allspice tree for smoking. It's never done right at restaurants as most probably use watered down prepared or bottled seasonings.
Good pirogi over surf and turf? Any day of the week
I find the best place to buy them around here is at Polish and Ukrainian churches. The Ukrainian version is called Varyniky (sp?) but they are usually are just sold as pirogi.
They are always available during the Lenten season, but a couple of churches cook them - and other goodies - all year long.
Only if the person makes them from scratch and has some clue as to how to do it right.
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Good pirogi over surf and turf? Any day of the week
I find the best place to buy them around here is at Polish and Ukrainian churches. The Ukrainian version is called Varyniky (sp?) but they are usually are just sold as pirogi.
They are always available during the Lenten season, but a couple of churches cook them - and other goodies - all year long.
I think that's actually the Russian name. My grandparents were Ukrainian and though I have no idea how it's really spelled, they called them something that sounded like petter-hee.
I know what you mean about the churches, I was walking down E 7th St in Manhattan one time, an area which once had a large Ukrainian population and saw a hand lettered cardboard sign advertising homemade pirogi pointing to a basement doorway. I was unfortunately there on a day they weren't open but of course had to go back. I believe it was a social hall for the Ukrainian church down the st., English was a little sparse but their hospitality more than made up for it, I had a wonderfully warming bowl of Borscht before leaving with my bag of pirogi.
One of the things I always enjoyed abut NYC, virtually anywhere you go you're likely to stumble across something unexpected and it's usually a good thing.
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