{"id":3385,"date":"2023-12-11T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:49:53","slug":"pierogi-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2023\/12\/11\/pierogi-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierogi for beginners."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday The Boaratis came over for a pre- Christmas get-together, as they will be flying off to America for Christmas. They are mostly non meat eaters, so I thought I&#8217;d make some pierogi. I have no more twarog though, used up all my stash from the freezer, so I had to get creative. I substituted it with feta and made a batch of &#8220;Greco- Ruskie&#8221;, not too bad, but twarog really is the best option.  I had some festive Ula Pedantula on youtube, big glass of water and quite enjoyed making pierogi for Molly, Enrico and the kiddos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_133656949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_133656949.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_133656949.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_133656949-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other batch I filled with a combo of dried porcini mushrooms and some cup mushrooms too, these were my favourite and I&#8217;ll be making more for Christmas eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What made my evening were the kids, Nina, Elio and Izzie, happily stuffing their faces with my effors, eating, and helping themselves to more.  It doesn&#8217;t get any better than that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_181043963.MP_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_181043963.MP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_181043963.MP_.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_181043963.MP_-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Molly brought the dessert, a lovely, creamy, simple and very well made vanilla cheesecake, plus some very posh cherries in syrup to go with it. It was very much enjoyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_190414746.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_190414746.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_190414746.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_190414746-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A certain Gino took to Enrico and made himself very comfortable on his lap.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a lovely evening! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_185759151.MP_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_185759151.MP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_185759151.MP_.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2023\/12\/PXL_20231209_185759151.MP_-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining pierogi panfried the next day made us a lovely lunch. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday The Boaratis came over for a pre- Christmas get-together, as they will be flying off to America for Christmas. They are mostly non meat eaters, so I thought I&#8217;d make some pierogi. I have no more twarog though, used up all my stash from the freezer, so I had to get creative. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2023\/12\/11\/pierogi-for-beginners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pierogi for beginners.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}