My MIL has a brother who lives in Steinbach. My husband is originally from southern Manitoba. Their cuisine is heavily influenced by the years their ancestors spent in the Ukraine.
I haven't had many of their soups, because they all have meat in them and I don't eat red meat. But my husband remembers them fondly from his youth.
I met some Mennonites in a place called (I think) Steinbach.
They make the most amazingly good soup.
vareniki filled with plums or saskatoon berries, served with whipped cream I think.
I wonder if it might have been sour cream, rather than whipped cream. My grandmother used to make vareniki filled with cherries, and she served them with sour cream.
It's possible, NA, and it does sound traditional to me, but I have the impression that my husband's family didn't grow up eating sour cream. But maybe it was just him, deciding as a kid he didn't like it.
I ate here last night, with a YC friend. Bigos was served as a starter, which surprised me. The home made Polish bread which was brought first, with a little pot of pate, followed by the bigos, meant that he was full to bursting before the main course arrived! I had the smoked salmon blini...which, instead of being a few small flat blinis, turned out to be a layer of salmon topped with a huge oddly shaped blini...which I couldn't begin to finish.
Pork Polish style turned out to have a caraway seed flavoured sauce. Lovely.
Anyway...Londoners or those visiting - it's well worth going to, and the owner and her staff are lovely too. Just don't eat for about eight hours before, and don't get carried away with the bread.
...a few small flat blinis...a huge oddly shaped blini.
Blini, like pierogi, is a plural. Blin is the singular. Regardless, the menu made my mouth water.
Thanks for that, never knew. Then again, I've never been served just one 'Pierog'.
There are normally about 50 in a big bowl.
