Host an Eastern European night
Two tables: a pierogi night, and a goulash pot. Borscht can be a third soup night.
An Eastern European house does not stack dumplings, beet soup, and paprika stew as one buffet. Cook the free pierogi or the free goulash. Save borscht for a soup night with bread.
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Pierogi night
Potato dumplings, sour cream, onion. Not goulash. Not borscht.
Potato pierogi are boiled, then often fried in butter with onion. Sour cream. That is dinner.
The clock
- Dough and filling.
- Boil.
- Onion and sour cream.
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- Potato Pierogi — The free dumpling night.
Goulash night
Paprika stew, bread or nokedli, pickles. The dumpling tray is for another week.
Hungarian goulash is beef, onion, paprika. Bread or nokedli. Pickles. Borscht is a different soup.
The clock
- Onions and paprika.
- Simmer.
- Bread and pickles.
Cook these free recipes
- Hungarian Goulash — The free paprika pot.
Set the dumplings or the stew in the middle. Find a cauldron the same way as the pantry — a search, not a single listing that disappears.
Find a pierogi maker on Amazon Find paprika on Amazon
When you want the rest of the map — more dumplings, soups, and the Sunday extras — Authentic Eastern European Cuisine is the book that keeps the table going. Read how the table is set before people arrive.
The Eastern European pantry, pots, and table
The spices, mixes, and hearths that belong to Eastern European cooking — then the people around them, and the kitchens still joining the table.
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