Perogies

Originally posted on Facebook April 10, 2009

Now, for my other recipe. I made these for dinner tonight, and they don't really count as baking but I thought I should post the recipe. I found it on my new favorite website - allrecipes.com but I'm going to give you my modified version of the recipe, and my critique.

Homemade Perogies
5 Rusett potatoes, peeled and quartered
3 eggs
3 tablespoons cream cheese
3 teaspoons milk
2 cups flour
1 cup cottage cheese
Grated cheddar cheese
Bacon bits
Salt
Butter

Boil the potatoes as you would for mashed potatoes.
In a large bowl mix together 1 egg, 1 tbsp cream cheese, 1 tsp milk and 1/2 cup flour. When this is well mixed add 1 tbsp cream cheese, 1 tsp milk and 1/2 cup flour and mix some more. Then add 1 egg, 1 tbsp cream cheese and 1/2 cup flour and mix. Finally add in 1 egg, 1 tsp milk and 1/2 cup flour.
Roll out the dough until its as thin as you can make it. Then cut it into circles using the rim of a glass. Set these circles aside.
Mash the potatoes with all the ingredients you haven't used yet.
Then take each circle of dough and roll it out some more. Take a spoonful of the potato mix and place it in the centre of the circle. Then fold over the dough and press down the edges so that the filling is sealed inside.
Boil a pot of water and drop in perogies. When they are floating take them out and then fry them in oil or more butter.
Serve with ham or smokies.

My verdict on this one - perogies should be bought from a store. Preferably the restaurant at the Grand Forks Hotel but if that's not possible then any grocery store will do. Perogies - in my opinion, are not worth the time to make them yourself. Although I had lots of help from my little brother and my mom when it came to frying them, they still took a full three hours and were not that much better than store bought perogies. Of course it didn't help that my mom put them on a piece of paper towel before serving and they then stuck to it and we had to pull paper towel off our perogies. But basically this was not worth making.

Also, the recipe made WAY too much filling and not enough dough. I had to make 2 batches of the dough and we still have a bunch of filling left over. I think we're going to fry it up for lunch tomorrow. I would have made it with maybe 1 or 2 potatoes and it would have been plenty. I should also mention that I had already halved the filling recipe from what was given in the original.

So yes, final verdict. Perogies should be bought from a store. Or possibly homemade en masse with a lot of people helping.

Edit: But the goo tastes really good fried the next day!