As you all know, I’m from the coal region and we have dishes that are popular to the area. One of those dishes is Porcupine meatballs or “balls” as I call them. They are really pigeons or halupukis or stuffed cabbage without the cabbage. I call them “balls” because I don’t make them small like…
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TORPEDOES
Yet another coal region favorite — Torpedoes. I bet you are saying “What the heck are torpedoes?” Well, they the meat from sausages, usually hot Italian, casings removed and cooked up in a pot with spices and sauce and served on a “torpedo” roll. In our area, some of the grocery stores actually sell “torpedo…
PIGEONS (STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS)
Pigeons, are a coal region favorite and are composed of hamburger and rice, which is wrapped in a cabbage leaf and then boiled (in the old days) and baked (in modern days) in a tomato sauce. A cherished food, but rarely heard of outside of the area. In some towns south of my town of…
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