Throughout Eastern Europe you will find some type of dumpling, either meat, cheese, or vegetable-filled. Dumplings are very much at home served from a street cart or at an elegant table. Through decades of tumult in Eastern Europe, dumplings have remained—known as pierogi in Poland, Slovakia and the Ukraine, or pirogen in Yiddish.
A bread or potato dumpling called knedliky in the Czech Republic is served with meat, or as an entrée accompanied by sauerkraut. This is a simple vegetarian dumpling, but you should feel free to make it with any filling you like; farmer cheese or cottage cheese or any … Read More »






