Lately I’ve really gotten into cooking again. My roommates make fun and say I’m getting back to my roots… most everything I’ve been making is very Polish or something a Wisconsinite would make.

The other day I just felt the need to make something so I turned a whole sack of potatoes into seasoned mash potatoes. I was trying to recreate my mother’s mashed potatoes and I got really close but they are still missing something. They’re really quite amazing but not quite what I remember. Regardless, by the end of my cook-a-thon I had about 10lbs of mashed ‘tapatoes’. What the heck do you do with 10lbs of tapatoes???

Last night I decided to turn them pierogi. I started mixing up and rolling out dough… do you know how many pierogi 10lbs of potatoes make? Well I can’t tell you either because I only got halfway through the batch after several hours of work. But considering each pierogi only needs like 1 tablespoon of filling I can definitely say it makes a whole heck of a lot!

Want to guess what I’m doing tonight? Yep, making more pierogi! I think some coworkers are going to be very happy with me on Monday when they get bags of pierogi on their desk to take home.

When I was finishing up last night a roommate came by and snatched one I had cooked (I couldn’t make all those and not have a few!) and said it was the best thing I ever made. I wasn’t sure if I should be complimented or insulted! Lol.