Rasberry pastries and chebureki

As the days propel us along and we start having dreams about potato maple bacon piroshki, your friends at Oly Piroshki strive to make your eating experience more and more spectacular. We are collecting your suggestions and making up a bunch of our own. Today's specials are a brand new fried pastry, called a cheburek . It is a pan-fried lamb pastry prepared with only the finest ingredients, from-scratch, as always.

We're also having lots of pan-fried goodies in the kitchen today:
-Panfried potato onion bacon
-Panfried egg green onion
-Panfried beef onion

It's enough to make your heart sing .


Oh and the desert! It's buttery, it's sweet, it's flaky and it's made with local raspberries. Dun, dun, dunnnn! The raspberry pastry has made it's appearance at Oly Piroshki, but come by quick because they are sure to be gone in a flash.

We're open 12-7pm (Saturday schedule), so come on by.

It's piroshki time!

Today in Piroshkiville we're rolling up some fabulous treats. Because, well, that's what we do. The menu, as always is fantastic, the dough freshly-made, and the ingredients fresh, local, organic. We do what we can to make Russian goodies available to you, here in Olympia, WA.

So here's the piroshki line-up:

Potato Maple Bacon
Potato Onion
Cabbage Beef franks
Beef Onion

The soup is the most popular Split Pea with Stewart's Meats Hog Legs. Now, this is a split pea soup that even people who don't like split pea soup line up to get, some come early and grab yourself a bowl.

And the desert, well we've got a fantastic apple currant strudel.

Well, see ya'll in piroshkiville!

Nom, nom, cabbage soup

Meat and potatoes...cabbage and love and...the soup is served! Smoked brisket with cabbage and potatoes soup to be specific.

Piroshki? Yes there are piroshki too.

You want 'em and we've got 'em:

Cabbage Maple Bacon
Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Beef Onion

We also have a batch of apple marmalade pastries for those who can't get enough of those.

Plus, a tasty apple kompot to drink all the Russian goodness down into your tummy where the potatoes and the onions and the apples form a union and radiate out as a snug warmness that may just remind you of being curled up in a mass of blankets as a child. (which if you have stopped doing should start back up again, it's fantastic!)

On a side note, I enjoy looking up the word of the day on dictionary.com when my neurons fire in just the right way to remind me to do so. Today's word happens to be gregarious- seeking and enjoying the company of the others. Which I find to be quite perfect because that's exactly how I'm feeling today. So come keep me company as we cook up some delicious food.

Missed us?

Cuz we missed you. The adventures of Oly Piroshki have only begun. This last weekend we had a great deal of fun in the kitchen making up pelmeni- little tidbits of Russian joy (probably best described as meat dumplings). We, of course hand-made the pasta dough and minced up some chicken and the delight that is pelmeni were. Now we need to figure out how to make it more accessible to ya'll cuz all that hand making and cute folding is a bit pricey. Oh the joy of trying out something new and then realizing you have to wait awhile to make it happen! Well soon my dearests, soon. Just come bug us about it a bunch. In the mean time we have today's menu (including the finger-licking fried piroshki):





Piroshki:

-Potato Maple
-Potato Onion
-Beef Onion
-Pan Fried Egg Green Onion

Soup:
-Split pea with Stewart's Meats Hog Legs

Pastry:
-Apple Marmalade on Danish Flaky Goodness

Beverage:
-Apple Apricot Kompot

Don't delay, come this way. Eat piroshki, filled with glee. (I crack myself up, really :P )

Pan fried goodies

Hey you! Come celebrate this gorgeous Saturday with Oly Piroshki! Today we are doing something just oh so wonderful: we're pan frying piroshki. Yup, yup, you heard right, pan fried piroshki! We've got mushroom risotto and we've got egg green onion. You may never leave after trying these goodies, so go ahead grab your tent and a stereo and camp out at Oly Piroshki.

Thursday's terrific tastes

Welcome back to another edition of cooking Russian food in Olympia. I am your host, Olga and on our show tonight are the fabulous piroshki, soups, and kompots that make your mouth water and your belly rumble with delight.

The line-up:

Piroshki-

Beef Cheddar
Beef Onion
Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Cabbage Maple Bacon

Soup:
Borscht
Chicken Bella

Kompot:

Green Apple Blood Orange Mint

Borscht

Many have been anticipating.... and today we shall deliver. Borscht- the Russian beet soup (the one that makes everyone's mouth water) shall be served hot from our kitchen to your belly. We also have a fantastic line up of piroshki, for today:

Cabbage Bacon
Egg Green Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Potato Onion
Beef Onion
Beef Cheddar

Pastry:
Flaky Danish Dough laden with Apple Marmalade

Beverage:
Green Apple Cranberry Compote
Greeen Apple Blood Orange Mint Compote

Vkusnoye Harcho

Time for another Russian lesson! "Vkusnoye" means delicious and "harcho" is a Georgian soup of lamb and rice. And you guessed it, that's what we have as our soup d'jour (d'jour being French for of the day). Oh what a cultural experience. Well, let's start our week off right. Our piroshki menu:

Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Cabbabe Maple Bacon
Beef Onion

And for the compote:
Green Apple Cranberry

Come get them hot out the oven!

Happy Saturday, Again!

We're two weeks new now. Yay! So far, so good. I am absolutely delighted over the buzz Oly Piroshki has been creating in town. It's quite flattering. It's the kind of energy that makes working really hard to make this the most fantastic, local, organic Russian piroshki stand. So let's get another Saturday rolling. Our menu for today will be:

Piroshki:

Beef Onion
Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Cabbage Bacon

Pastry:

Flaky Apple Marmalade

The Soup:

Rassolnik- a soul warming Russian soup made with pickled cucumber and barley (kept vegan for our adoring vegan fans)

I'm eating some rassolnik right now and I do say its hard to put it down so I can type this entry. It's a soup you don't want to miss.

Flaky Apple Marmalade

You heard right! We do have a delicious new desert item today- its a flaky, scrumptious Apple Marmalade Piroshki!


We will also be starting the day with quite the variety of piroshki too.

Beef Onion
Cabbage
Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Cabbage Sausage

Due to popular demand, we have our borscht today as well.

Soon, one day, I will have a website. I'm excited. Well hope to see ya'll soon!

Not so seamless

I extend my most sincerest apologies to whoever may have discovered bacon in their potato onion piroshki yesterday. There was a bit of confusion in the afternoon when we were serving up the potato onion piroshki. You see, the difference between the two is a simple seam in the dough. In my mind the one with a seam has bacon and the one without doesn't, but yet once again reality wins the game of life. But, worry not! Because after such a shockingly large mistake we are sure to not commit another one of this magnitude for at least another ten years :)
Anyone who did have bacon in their piroshki and did not want it there, come back and we'll give you a potato onion or whichever other one you would like. Speaking of which here is our menu for today:

Delightful Piroshki-

Egg Green Onion
Cabbage Sausage
Cabbage
Potato Onion
Potato Maple Bacon
Beef Onion

And for soup- Borscht!

Yum, yum, yum!

Let's start the week off organically

And we're off! To another wonderful week at the piroshki stand. So what do we have in the kitchen today?

Piroshki:
Potato onion
Potato maple bacon
Beef onion
Eggs w/ green onions
Cabbage
Cabbage sausage

Soup:
Porcini spinach

All the produce comes from Organically Grown Northwest. The meats from our local butchers at Stewart's Meats. The eggs are organic Stieber Farms eggies. And the dough is made with the very awesome Shepard's Grain flour. Keep your eyes open for all the farm info on our soon to be updated website. Til then, come eat some delicious Russian food.

Our First Saturday

Really when I say I can't believe that we've been open for a week, I quite literally mean I can't believe it. The buzz throughout the town is growing and I'm so excited about how stoked people are. My heart melted a bit after reading the review we got from Puck on yelp.com.

There is just so much to be done and I have so many ideas (some of my own, some contributed by Oly Piroshki fans). I can't wait for tomorrow, when I can sit down with a notebook and a cup of coffee and get to making a plan of action to make those ideas a reality. From spring menus to making up dessert pastries to interior decorations and so, so much more.

For today, we'll focus in on the cooking. Out of the kitchen shall come magical delights. Back by popular demand we have green apple pear compote for a tasty beverage. Also, people really enjoyed the yam cilantro piroshki, so those will make another appearance throughout the day. We will also have our most popular beef onion, potato maple bacon, potato onion, and beef cheddar piroshki. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. The huge treat though will be the soup, which is a split pea with Stewart Meats hog legs. Absolutely amazing. You can really taste the local.

So grab a friend and come on by.

Late starts and new foods

This morning my alarm decided to let me sleep in a bit and apparently the same rang (or perhaps didn't ring) true for our wonderful dough maker. But nothing to fear we will have delicious piroshki by 11am. And what a menu! Two soups: rustic russian chicken noodle and our homemade borscht. We're also trying out some new piroshki. To start the day there will be cabbage with maple bacon and a simple scrumptious cabbage one for the vegeterians. Later we will have yam cilantro piroshki . Also we will have our classic beef onion plus the newer beef cheddar will make a return appearance. Well, I better get going, hope to see ya'll soon!

Is it Thursday?

Thursday in Russian: четверг (pronounced chetverg). Just a bit of Russian for everyone today, just in case it comes up. Well, the reason I'm stuck on it being Thursday is how quickly time is moving.

Today we are going to do something new: we are going to try making a beef with cheese piroshki (but only a few). My mother and I are currently trying to figure out what the perfect cheese for such a piroshki. For now, we will play around with white cheddar. The piroshki: potato bacon, potato onion, beef onion, and a bit of beef cheddar. Oh and the soup: borscht! It is sure to go quickly, so come grab it while its hot.

Winter Foods

Day 2: We are cooking up some more piroshki. So far, so good. We had a handful of people come by yesterday and everyone who did was super happy with our delicious food. Today we will have the hit specials: beef onion piroshki, mushroom potato piroshki, and cabbage mushroom soup. Also, the green apple pear compote is absolutely delightful. Hope to see you there!

Getting down to business

Today's food shall be made from scratch and with local ingredients.... as usual :) The start of our regular Tuesday- Saturday, 11am-6pm schedule, begins today at 11am. The piroshki for today are: potato and mushroom, potato and maple bacon, potato and onion, and beef with onion. The soup is a tasty mushroom cabbage.

Last night, my mother and I stayed up forever in order to make sure all was just right for today and the baker (who I haven't asked permission to disclose their identity) came in just as we were leaving at 4am to continue the rightness ensuring process.

My mother and I did have a bit of a scare last night when there was a knock on our door at 1am. It was after all, a very loud and forceful knock at 1am. But, no worries, it was simply the police department wondering why there was a car where there usually wasn't one. After a brief explanation of our nocturnal behaviors, they took off.

All our prep came unimpeded thereafter and the food will surely be delicious today.