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ravnsdaughter ([personal profile] ravnsdaughter) wrote2009-08-28 09:43 am
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TGIF!

Happy Friday!

I am in a hella good mood today. I worked my arse off last night and now the house is about 98% ready for me to take pictures, save the den. I will be working on that once I get home from work tonight (which will be right away after work - today is the one day this week I have no commitments after work) and then sometime this weekend, the photography will happen so you all can finally see my new place.

All that work last night wore me out so much that I was in bed just after 10, and fell right asleep. I woke up very briefly when the boy got home, long enough to tell him he could eat the leftover perogies and say "I love you", and then I went right back to sleep and slept through until 6:30. I slept so well and woke up feeling so great that the boy got rewarded with some morning fooling around. :) I see it as positive reinforcement for leaving me to sleep when he got home from work last night.

I have a package waiting for me when I get home from work tonight, and I'm curious about what it is. I thought at first it might be from my mom, as I left my knitting and a couple other things at her house last weekend, but then I also had an IM from her asking for my mailing address, so she obviously hasn't sent it yet. I have 3 other packages on the way, but one is small enough to fit in the mailbox and I wouldn't have expected the other 2 to have arrived yet, so I guess it'll be a surprise! I was pleasantly surprised, though, to find out that there's a postal outlet right across the street from the new apartment and that's where our packages get sent.

[identity profile] brienze.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
We're clearly very different personality types. I've lived in my current house for almost 7 years, and there are still boxes that haven't been unpacked. =)

Pierogies sound SO good. I'm actually planning to make some German potato salad so I can use the leftovers as pierogie filling, but I'm super-involved in finishing a sock by Monday so I don't get to make a mess of the kitchen until the sock is done.

[identity profile] ravnsdaughter.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Well, it would be different if I had more space to work with. We're in an 800 square foot condo, and if I want to be able to craft without having everything everywhere, the place has to be organized. Plus I want to work on some projects that I know that the supplies for them are still in some of the unpacked boxes.

That said, I do have major Type-A tendencies. :)

Ok, what's German potato salad?

These are just storebought perogies with potato/cottage cheese filling, which are not too bad but definitely not homemade. I've been saying for years that I need to go over to visit my grandparents for the weekend so I can get my grandma to teach me to make perogies the way she does them. That side of my family is Ukrainian, so they're the real deal. :)

[identity profile] brienze.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
German potato salad has diced bacon along with onion and potato slices (pre-boiled), and uses the bacon fat along with apple cider vinegar as the sauce. I found out by accident that it makes a great pierogie filling... Mr. Brienze isn't a fan, and after a party I had a ton of leftovers that I'd never be able to eat. So I took a potato masher to it, added a few handfuls of shredded cheddar, and voila! Pierogie filling.

I used to get homemade ones from a Polish friend of ours, but the recipe I use for the dough was actually on LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/food_porn/5141200.html
I don't have a ton of patience for rolling out sticky dough, so I'm especially happy that this dough is really easy to work with. I cut out rounds with a highball glass, fill them, and press them closed in a gyoza press. I call them multicultural pierogies. =)