After a trip to Poland, in 2007, my wife and I had a renewed interest in Polish food, Polish Customs and Polish traditions.
One of those traditions involves the making of pierogies.
In her family, the tradition of making pierogies at Christmas is one that goes back generations. This is a practice that I have been exposed to only for the last decade.
This annual ritual involves, mostly the women in the family, but a few of us males have participated over the last few years. The clan gathers, normally on the Sunday before Christmas, and they produce several dozen potato and sauerkraut pierogies.
A few years ago, my son-in-law and I added the Penna. Dutch variety of "Scrapple Pierogies" to the mix, just to put our own stamp on the process.
Earlier this year, we experimented with other flavors, such as cheese, mushroom, kielbasa, apple and blueberry.
What began as a whim and an experiment, has blossomed into a new business, albeit a fledgling one!
Now, as the Polish Farmers officially get off the ground, we are set to offer the Berks and Lancaster County areas of Pennsylvania more than 30 flavors of pierogies. Flavors our ancestors never would have dreamed about.
Local Polish food connoisseurs can not only enjoy the standard potato, cheese and sauerkraut varieties, but sink their teeth into such exotic and contemporary flavors such as: hoagie, cheese steak, Buffalo chicken, sweet potato, garlic potato, chili, taco and cheeseburger. Add to that dessert flavors like: peach, apple, cherry, apricot, blueberry and strawberries and cream.
The possibilities are endless, and the results are truly amazing! Check out our menu which changes monthly. Na zdrowie!
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