Making Peirogi for Ukrainian Christmas

rwdfresnorwdfresno Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
edited January 9, 2008 in People
The Ukrainian Christmas is on January 7th. My family celebrates Christmas on the 25th but we also have a Christmas Jr. on the 7th where we make traditional Ukrainian foods and have a traditional Christmas Dinner. My wife and I are one of the few of our generation to pass on this tradition and as you can see we are passing on them on to my girls.

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Wife and little one making dough

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Free child labor

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The littlest little one

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Egg helps glue the seam

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Filling of green onion, potato, cheese and bacon

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Folding

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Sealing

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Ready to be boiled then fried in lots of butter with onions. They are also excellent baked.


Ryan
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  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    deeeelicious looking
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  • AgnieszkaAgnieszka Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,263 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    oh yumiiiiii, I love pierogi!! iloveyou.gif Nice photos!
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  • ElaineElaine Registered Users Posts: 3,532 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    That's wonderful to pass on traditions and document with photos! Looks yummy, too!

    Edit: By the way...it looks like you got nice indoor shots without looking too flashy! Nice!
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    Yum, i remember making those with my grandma :D
    Good for you to keep the tradition going thumb.gif
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 8, 2008
    a nice family tradition-

    thanks for posting-
  • shatchshatch Registered Users Posts: 798 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    It doesn't look like anyone had any fun here... Your girls expressions are so filled with joy! I love the memories from the holidays. I would like to see more of those and less commercialism. I can't convince my kids of that though. But they do love the traditions and memories.

    Thanks for sharing.
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  • rwdfresnorwdfresno Registered Users Posts: 65 Big grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    shatch wrote:
    It doesn't look like anyone had any fun here... Your girls expressions are so filled with joy! I love the memories from the holidays. I would like to see more of those and less commercialism. I can't convince my kids of that though. But they do love the traditions and memories.

    Thanks for sharing.

    It is amazing how much joy my girls get from something as simple as being able to dunk a measuring cup into flour and dump it in the mixing bowl or roll out a piece of dough. Of course, they love their Leapster games, Barbies and barn full of plastic horses but I enjoy fostering things such as cooking with them. It seems like most kids have an ingrained desire to "help" with everything and somewhere along the line they learn it is work but hopefully I can teach them that not all tasks are just work but labors of love.

    Thanks everyone for your comments. I used my Sigma 530 and bounced it off the cieling/peace of photo paper rubber banded to the back of the flash.

    Ryan

    PS: If you think having kids play with flour, eggs and mashed potatoes is messy well you should see when we pass on the other half of the family traditions and make pizza or lasagna. Tossing pizza dough with nothing on it:GOOD. Tossing pizza dough after applying sauce and toppings: NOT SO GOOD.:D
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  • GrainbeltGrainbelt Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited January 8, 2008
    As a recent transplant to a heavily Ukrainian community, I must bowdown.gif


    I acquired some perogies from a friends' grandmother in law, and prepared them in the traditional method.

    I give you



    macro perogie


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  • PaulcaoPaulcao Registered Users Posts: 202 Major grins
    edited January 9, 2008
    This thread is making me hungry-- looks good! Photos and the food:D
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