the bacon adds such a salty, smoky flavour. all right. you can seat strands of onion throughout. perfect. we'll put this over there. this is a great side dish. the pierogies are done when they float and they're floating so they're done. what you want to do is scoop them out with a slotted spoon. don't drain the water because we're going cook more. i like to put in a bowl and drizzle oil on top or even use melted butter if you want. what that is going to do is keep your pierogies from sticking. when you put noodles in a bowl and leave them, it clumps together, the same thing can happen with pierogies. add a tiny drizzle of oil. give it a toss and that's going to coat them and help them to fry up later. let's get more pierogies into our water here. and then after, we're going fry up pierogies in butter and finish off our beef salad. don't go anywhere. >> kary: we're going all out today with a homemade pierogi dinner. all that is left to do is fry our potato cheddar pierogies and finish off the salad. i take a few out of the boiling water. remember, i added oil into the bowl with th