{"id":5107,"date":"2015-09-03T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T04:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2015-09-03T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T04:08:52","slug":"recreate-a-meal-from-your-childhood-veganmofo-leniwe-pieroshki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/recreate-a-meal-from-your-childhood-veganmofo-leniwe-pieroshki\/","title":{"rendered":"Recreate a meal from your childhood &#8211; #VeganMoFo &#8211; Leniwe Pieroshki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Vegan MoFo Prompt &#8211; recreate a meal from your childhood. Well. When I was a little girl, one of my favourite things to eat were Leniwe Peiroshki (pronounced [by me]: Leh-niv-eh Pyeh-rosh-ki, translated = Lazy Perogies). The name is misleading as it wasn&#8217;t really that easy to prepare (though still probably easier than making perogies.) But it&#8217;s a great way to use potatoes, if for some reason you had some left over (which I don&#8217;t understand, but whatever.)<\/p>\n<p>I remember sitting around the kitchen table watching my mom make these for me and me being pretty excited. A lot of my happy childhood memories involve being in the kitchen &#8211; watching my mom cook, helping prepare something, &#8220;helping&#8221; to make real perogies with my late-grandmother in the middle of the night a few days before christmas, lots of happy memories center around the kitchen. So this prompt is a fun little trip down memory lane too.<\/p>\n<p>Normally Leniwe Peiroshki involves quark (a type of dairy based cheese that&#8217;s sort of like a paste &amp; usually a bit sour) which is of course not on my menu anymore. But I&#8217;ve noticed that there is a vegan cream cheese made in Toronto from Yoso, that has a very similar texture (at least to what I remember quark being like.) Ever since I made that connection, I was curious about making my favourite childhood dish myself and sharing the recipe. This prompt seems like the perfect opportunity to do just that.<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 package\u00a0yoso plain cream cheese (I think daiyas plain one would also work great for this)<\/li>\n<li>300 g potatoes, boiled and mashed (or just use potato flakes)<\/li>\n<li>1-2\u00a0flax eggz (1-2tbsps of flax meal, 3-6tbsp water)<\/li>\n<li>salt<\/li>\n<li>5 Tbsp flour\u00a0(or more)<\/li>\n<li>melted\u00a0Earth Balance\u00a0and breadcrumbs to serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mash cream cheese and potatoes together, but not too much because potatoes are starchy and can turn this thing into a rubber. Add the flax eggz (or your favourite egg replacement powder, chia seeds, just <strong>do not<\/strong> use bananas.), salt and some of the flour (start with a tablespoon or two) Mix it together.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dough should be soft, but not sticky.<\/li>\n<li>Shape into rolls, flatten a bit, and cut them so that they&#8217;re about an inch or so (or smaller) &#8211; choose your own adventure.<\/li>\n<li>Boil water with a pinch of salt in a pot.<\/li>\n<li>Add the lazy perogies\u00a0and cook them around 2-3 minutes until they float to the top.<\/li>\n<li>Remove them with a slotted spoon.<\/li>\n<li>While they&#8217;re boiling, fried up some bread crumbs in some oil or vegan butter.<\/li>\n<li>Place the perogies on a plate and cover them with breadcrumb butter magic.<\/li>\n<li>Eat and enjoy. Pretend you&#8217;re a 7\u00a0year old meshell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course after all of that&#8230; I didn&#8217;t get the chance to actually make these.<\/p>\n<p>The day was busier than anticipated.\u00a0But I feel confident in my\u00a0food combo science, and will make these this weekend. Hopefully for <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/breakfast-when-youre-bad-at-breakfast\/\">breakfast<\/a>. (and hopefully wont have to make too many edits!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5108\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kopitki-FIX.jpeg\" alt=\"kopitki FIX\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kopitki-FIX.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kopitki-FIX-121x150.jpeg 121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also found this lazy mix at\u00a0Benna&#8217;s Fine Food (135 Roncesvalles Avenue), so I might just use that to make my childhood favourite even lazier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Vegan MoFo Prompt &#8211; recreate a meal from your childhood. Well. When I was a little girl, one of my favourite things to eat were Leniwe Peiroshki (pronounced [by me]: Leh-niv-eh Pyeh-rosh-ki, translated = Lazy Perogies). The name is misleading as it wasn&#8217;t really that easy to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,156,1372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegan-food","category-vegan-mofo","category-vegan-mofo-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}