So. I finally graded my very last exam. And WWII at my department also ended 20 minutes ago. It was a real world war and it was the second in the history of the department. So I will celebrate the victory in WWII today, in spite of myself. A veritable cloud has been removed from my horizon. And it seems to be final that we are getting The Hedgehogs.
Now I will send the diet to hell for the day, eat a mountain of pelmeni with pickled cabbage, take a restorative shower, plaster a mask on my face, get into bed, and watch 10 episodes if Shark’s Tank while reading Dreiser’s biography. This was a very difficult academic year and now it’s over and I’m adopting a completely new persona. Time to celebrate and rest.
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Congrats! Sounds wonderful
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Thank you!!! 🙂
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No potatoes? Or are they in the pelmeni?
Congratulations on hedgehogs!
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Potatoes are never in pelmeni. By definition pelmeni are stuffed with meet. Vereniki are stuffed with potatoes.
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Ah, I’m in Poland so they’re all pierogies (which can be stuffed with meat, vegetables, white cheese, potatoes or fruit) to me.
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Congratulations!
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Have a great holiday!
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Pirogi in Kyrgyzstan are fried or baked. Pelmeni are small dumplings like ravioli and almost always boiled and served in soup, but are sometimes fried. Pirogi are at any rate bigger and fried and eaten by themselves with hands while pelmeni are boiled and eaten served in soup with smetana and eaten with a spoon.
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They generally don’t do the baked pirozhki type things in Poland, more’s the pity. One of my favorite fast foods ever was the Jamaican meat loaf (with cheese added).
Poles don’t fry Pierogi either (they sautee them in oil and/or butter but only to reheat them after they’ve been boiled).
The only types distinguished from regular pierogi are uszka (little ravioli served in clear beet soup) kołduny (more in eastern Poland) and maybe pyzy (with potatoes added to the flour – they’re round and about the size of a ping pong balls).
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Would zoning laws prohibit you having a visible name on the house? I like the idea of houses with names and think you totally should have щасливі їжачки in a prominent place on the front of the house (possibly with translations into English, Spanish and/or Russian).
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Wow, all at once, great!!!
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I am so jealous of pelmeni. They are my favorite food. Well deserved! Treat yo self.
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