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••••HOMEMADE PIEROGI (POLAND)🥟!!

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INGREDIENTS

DOUGH
2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter, room temperature

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1 cup warm mashed potatoes

1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded

TO FINISH

1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter

2 large shallots, diced; OR one medium onion, thinly sliced

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To make the dough: Mix together the flour and salt. Add the egg to the flour and combine. The dough will be quite clumpy at this stage.
Work in the sour cream and soft butter until the dough comes together in a slightly rough, 
slightly sticky ball.
Using just your fingertips, knead and fold the dough without adding additional flour until the dough becomes less sticky but still quite moist.
Wrap the dough well in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 to 60 minutes, or up to 48 hours.

To make the filling: 
Combine the warm mashed potato and cheese. Stir and mash until the 
cheese is melted and the filling is cool to the touch. Taste and adjust the seasonings with salt and
 pepper.

To fill the pierogi: 
Roll half the dough 1/8" thick. Use a 2" round cutter to cut circles of dough. 
Repeat with the other half of the dough. Save the scraps; these can be snipped into small pieces and added to simmering soups.
Place 1 1/2 teaspoons of filling on each round of dough. Gently fold the dough over, forming a pocket around the filling. Pinch the edges of the pierogi to seal, then seal again with the tines of a fork.
At this point the pierogi can be frozen for up to 4 weeks, or refrigerated overnight, or cooked in a large stockpot of boiling salted water. Only cook about 10 pierogi at a time, so that they have room to float without sticking. When the pierogi float, they're done. The time will vary depending of if they are fresh or frozen.
Sauté the shallots or onion in the butter in a large skillet until the onion begins to brown. Add the drained pierogi and cook until browned and crisped. Serve hot with additional sour cream, 
applesauce, or other condiments

PREP
45 mins. to 60 mins.

TOTAL
60 mins. to 1 hrs 15 mins.

YIELD
about 3 1/2 dozen small pierogi

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TIPS FROM OUR BAKERS

If your filling is a bit watery due to the potatoes, add a tablespoon of flour to help thicken it up.

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How to measure flour
https://www.kingarthur.com-how-to-measure-flour.html

High-altitude baking
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Tips & techniques
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Tools & pans
https://www.kingarthur.com-tools-and-pans.html

Baker’s yeast
https://www.kingarthur.com-baker's-yeast.html 

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Basically, the goal is to convert grocery store ingredients into tasty meals without the convenience of a kitchen full of appliances, utensils, and seasonings. 

You want to be able to go to the grocery store and get ingredients in small enough portions that you can use them all, without having to buy a million little things.

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So, temporarily become a hoarding, pilfering, MacGyver. Leftover resealable bottles, plastic cutlery, 

salt and pepper packets, honey packets, lemon juice packets, butter packets, bags, napkins, and fresh 

fruit (at the continental breakfast). These are all things you can get for basically free if you keep track of them.

Find a microwave.

 If your hotel room does not have one, the lobby or breakfast dining room probably does. You can make an unbelievable amount of great meals here. The only thing you have to figure out is how to get a microwave-safe container. 

A ceramic coffee mug is perfect, but they don't travel well. Otherwise, paper is your safest bet. You might get lucky and have the paper cereal bowls available, but if not, just pick up a set of microwave safe disposable bowls.

Now, find a refrigerator. If your room doesn't have one, no worries. Pick up a foam cooler for $2 and fill it up with ice from the ice machine in your hotel.

Now, a sample shopping list••••

Butter. Most meals require a good fat to be edible, so don't be shy. Grass fed if you can. Almost every Walmart carries either Kerrygold or Organic Valley, and even small towns have Walmarts.

Baby carrots (hint, they are already peeled). They can be eaten raw or steamed in the microwave.

Any frozen vegetables (microwaving them = steaming them. Add salt, pepper, and plenty of butter).

Frozen pre-cooked shrimp (microwave them in a bowl of butter and salt).

Microwave bacon.

Raw eggs (Can be prepped in two ways, we'll get to that later).

Canned (with pull tab) salmon, or pouches.

Cheese.

Microwavable rice pouches.

Cherry tomatoes.

Spinach (Microwave to steam, or just make a salad).

Clam-shell salad.

Sweet potato (poke holes, microwave both sides for two minutes each).

Nuts.

Applegate brand grass-fed hot-dogs.

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How to Boil Eggs in Your Coffee Pot••••

Remove the basket the coffee sits in. You don't want to steep it in stale-coffee water.

Open the lid of the pot. Otherwise it will drip from the top down the sides of the pot and boil on the
hot plate.

Add eggs first, then water from the faucet. That way you know you don't get too much water.

Pour the water into the basin, leave the eggs in the pot and turn it on.

Once it is full of hot water, cycle the same water through a second time.

Let it sit on the hot plate for about 40 minutes. This isn't boiling water so it takes longer.

Drain the water, and dab with cold water to make them able to handle. 

Then shake them. If they are solid, you are done. If they sound like fluid is shaking, do it again.

How to Make Super Fluffy Scrambled Eggs in a Microwave

Ceramic mug works best, paper bowl if you need it. Microwave empty container with a dab of butter for a couple seconds only. Stop it and smooth it around.

Crack 1-3 eggs in the container and stir them thoroughly.

Microwave for 30 seconds.

Remove from microwave and stir thoroughly.

Microwave for 30 seconds.

Remove from microwave and stir thoroughly.

Repeat until all is solid. Salt and pepper afterward to taste. I like mine plain though.

••••BEN MORDECAI••••

How to Make Butter Shrimp and Broccoli in a Microwave

Pour pre-cooked frozen shrimp in a bowl.
Add at least a tablespoon of butter.

Microwave 2 minutes, then test to see if warm all the way through. The water in the shrimp mixes with the butter and the shrimp is not over cooked. The broth is tasty enough to drink. 

Salt and pepper to taste. If you have a lemon packet, you know what to do.

Microwave the broccoli for 2 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

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More Sneaky Tricks••••

You can take 1 o.z. liquor bottles (the kind sold for $1) on your carry on in your quart-sized zipper bag. 

While this is a trick in itself (Hey, $1 cocktails in flight!) you can also re-use these bottles to smuggle that which your culinary palate desires. I often travel with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Instant salad dressing. Instant heart-burn relief (a dab of vinegar in your water).

The best drinking water you will find in a hotel is in the fitness center. Usually there is a bottled water cooler for free.

If there is a cooking utensil you're really aching for (like a sharp knife), ask your front desk (you never know), but then look for a thrift store or dollar store. You can probably get one for just a dollar.

Bring lotion and lip balm. You won't find it free and if you do it's not worth using. The air plane will dry you out and your skin won't be used to the weather.

Be mindful of your caffeine addiction. If you can't handle hotel coffee, plan ahead and find somewhere that has bottled cold-brew coffee or green tea. I tend to just pound this in the morning rather than try to manage the hotel stuff.

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