Cherry Vareniki from Cooking Debauchery

[kitarra]

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[songbird72884]

those look delicious! I've always wanted to try varenyky (as my mum's always spelled it) but never had the guts to try making them, since my pyrohy always come out less like perogies and more like leaky messes, but those look soooo good! It helps that my entire family are obsessed with cherries as well, so that's good ^_^

By the way, if there are any particular Ukrainian recipes you're looking for, let me know. My mum grew up in a predominantly Ukranian-descended town in Saskatchewan and she's passed a lot of her recipes down to me, as well as a few cookbooks with various Ukranian recipes in as well as ones from Germany, Slovenia, Russia, and basically Scandinavian recipes in general.

[kitarra]

*giggles* Yeah they are hard to make so they don't leak. The trick is getting the filling so that it is almost completely dry which takes a wee bit of effort and quite a bit of draining and pushing and draining again.

And thank you very much for the offer. I had heard about the Canadian-Ukrainian villages but have never known anyone who has actually seen one. And when I was in Canada I couldn't find them. I guess I was in the wrong place.

Are the cookbooks in English or Ukrainian. I can read and translate Russian but I was too young to learn Ukrainian.

[songbird72884]

Luckily they're in English, else I'd have a heck of a time. Mum had already stopped working for the Ukranian family that taught her to cook loooong before I was born, so I never learned any Ukranian beyond the names of the foods and a few words besides (if anyone ever needs me to order eggs and bread in the Ukraine, I'm their girl lmao). The best one I have isn't exclusively Ukranian, but it's from a town called Rose Valley, which is where mum grew up, and it's what they call a community cookbook, where all the women of the town have submitted their own recipes to be published in the town's cookbook, so all the recipes are the ones they've always used which means they're always foolproof and they're written and measured the way an average housewife would make them, which makes them perfect for me. I love recipes that have all the little tweaks and twists in them that have come from generations of being passed down through families

[lovelymissme]

My mother's godmother makes cherry pierogy (which are, of course, the same as vareniki), and every time I go to visit, there's a dish of them, because she knows I LOVE them. And when my mother goes to visit, she often comes home with a container of them for me.
So generous, and delicious!

[kitarra]

*grin* Isn't that the best? When they spoil you like that? My grandmother use to make them for me all the time. So did my aunts. Cause I was the baby! They are wonderful!

[zwee]

wonderfully written, great pics!
Thank you so much for sharing!

[kitarra]

Thank you very much!

[antikythera]

Oh wow, those look fantastic. Pierogies are something I've been meaning to try making at home, and I'll have to give it a shot with sweet fruit filling too. Yummm.

[kitarra]

Ooo! Do let me know if you try. These are good with almost any fruit so long as you can get the fruit relatively dry. I considered using apples but... I can't resist cherries!

[kitarra]

ooo! You are lucky. There are some wonderful Russian restaurants up there. In SF there is a large Russian Orthodox church and around it are some excellent places! I am jealous!