Coltunasi

Coltunasi It’s essentially tortellini, with fillings like potato, ground meat (which is called pelmeni, if you speak Russian) or a soft cow’s cheese, except they usually put onions sauteed in oil and sour cream on top instead of tomato sauce or the like.... More

Coltunasi
It’s essentially tortellini, with fillings like potato, ground meat (which is called pelmeni, if you
speak Russian) or a soft cow’s cheese, except they usually put onions sauteed in oil and sour cream
on top instead of tomato sauce or the like.
My host mom would rarely make coltunasi because she
was either busy with her job as a nurse, taking care of the kids, taking care of the animals (which
included ducks, chickens, pigs, a cow and nutria), or she was working in the garden, busily
ensuring we had potatoes, onions and peppers to eat throughout the rest of the year.
I would offer to
help her make the coltunasi, hoping she would realize that if there was an extra pair of hands it
would be easier and she’d make them more often.
It didn’t really work; all I ever got to do was seal
the edges of the coltunasi and arrange them on a tray before they went into the boiling water.

Needless to say, when she finally got around to making coltunasi I ate them like they were going
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