food
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This one is not from my people, but from Dude’s mom. In fact, behind the
cut is her recipe, in her own hand, written down from memory on some scrap
note paper for us fifteen years ago or more. The scrap of paper is long
gone but I scanned it and a number of other recipes into the computer and
the digital files have persisted.
No, this is not a pierogi. This is a casserole. This is many of the
components of a pierogi, but instead it is easy. I have no idea who
invented this, or why it’s specifically a man, but I do often have this
made for me by a man, so I suppose it’s not inaccurate.
[image description: a sheet of note paper with a rose, preprinted “A Note
From… Laura”, and it contains, in cursive ballpoint handwriting with many
scratch-outs and interpolations, the recipe I am about to transcribe.]
Lazy Man Pierogi
Cook 2c (dry) spirals [ed note: she means rotini but any small pasta will
do, as in the mac n cheese post I already made]
Mix (in casserole [dish]) with 1 can [condensed] cream of mushroom soup
1 lb of polish sausage [around here that’s usually keilbasa, often smoked]
1 can drained sauerkraut [probably like a 16 oz can, or a quart jar]
Pepper
Bake at 350 for about ½ hour.
This one has a real actual recipe, and I promise it is actually quite
flavorful and pleasant. I have moved away from buying prepared ingredients
like condensed cream of mushroom soup, so I’ve been pondering what I could
substitute there– a cream sauce perhaps, something along those lines– I’ll
write about it if I ever do come up with something. But, mostly, Dude makes
this one, and he makes it off the recipe card, on his phone, faithfully.
This feeds two people with enough left over for like two lunches, so it’s a
pretty perfect amount for me.
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