Dumplings and Hangover

Today I was given an opportunity to present to Richard’s family something of Polish traditional cuisine. I chose Pierogi ruskie = Russian dumplings = Polish national meal. They used to be prepared on almost every week when I was a small boy. They were made in the same way by my mother and by my grandmothers who were probably taught by their mothers : ). I was kind of sure that I won’t have problems with preparing them in Australia since I was witnessing their creation for such a long time of my growing-up time. But unfortunately I was wrong. You can easily inherit things like colour of eyes, face features, height etc (together with the flow of genes) but you can’t posses cooking skills this way. You have to practice it : )

I kind of invented new recipe – my dumplings were unnaturally big and flat, with thick and remarkably raw cover and with relatively small filling. Thanks God Richards wife is an experienced woman and she rescued me. Florence put them on the pan and fried until they become eatable : ) Small granddaughter liked them very much though. She didn’t bother to use forks, she used only her small hands and after first and second dumpling went to her small belly she screamed for more : ). It was charming .

It is all probably connected with yesterday jam session. Being a rock star for a while made me feel too self-confident. (not to mention about destructive influence of alcohol on my brain cells).

I found out accidentally that there is a mirror picture of me: An English man in Poland and he describes very well the secrets of Polish cuisine on his blogspot. Iin addition it is clearly explained there why Polish national meal is called Russian dumplings. Here you can find the exact recipe: http://polishfoodrecipes.blogspot.com/2007/08/pierogi-ruskie-polish-dumplings-russian.html GOOD LUCK!