As I was about to leeave the Cleveland area today, I asked my husband if he wanted me to bring him back anything. He replied "pierogies." A pierogie is an Eastern European version of ravoli. It is pasta dough stuffed with stuff like sauerkraut, bacon, potato, and cheese. The fancier ones today have "yam and walnut", "goat cheese and spinach", and "fig." I found a place that makes them on my way to the airport and got a couple dozen. I actually got a pierogie called "paprikash." This is kind of a "two-fer" because another common Cleveland Eastern European food is the paprika-laden chicken dish called "paprikash." While living there, we discovered that we were definitely not in Indiana for many reasons, but the food was certainly one big difference.
In Putnam County, we grew up eating the following foods that were not really part of the regular choices for those people we lived near last year: Biscuits and Gravy, Fried Pork Tenderloin Sandwich, Beef or Turkey Manhattans, Green Beans with Ham, Ham and Beans. We also found that Indianapolis had a better selection when it came to these ethnic foods: Chinese (authentic), Thai, Vietnamese, and ANY Latino foods. If you live in Indiana, it seems that many of your foods have a strong German influence, because I noticed that a lot of the foods that I ate in Germany were just a slight variation or the same foods that I ate at home.
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