# I'm feeling pretty damn good today. I'm makin' holubki. Who wants some? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166 "2003-12-26T22:04:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/1 "2003-12-26T22:04:42Z")
Yep. I’m makin’ holubki. You might call 'em holushki, holuski, or “pigs in a blanket”, but I tell ya, it ain’t the way I make 'em. Why? 'Cause I learned directly from a Slovak woman. And I make 'em good. So belly up to the bar, grab a beer, and have a plate of my traditional Christmas dish. Tripler I make it every year for my folks. Y’all are invited. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/2 "2003-12-26T23:05:16Z")
I’ll belly up for a snack, but I’m afraid I’ll have to pass on the beer - some of us are working ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/3 "2003-12-26T23:10:11Z")
I always thought that holuski was cabbage and noodles with lots of onions and butter. I’m so confused. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/4 "2003-12-26T23:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaElle \* > \*\*I always thought that holuski was cabbage and noodles with lots of onions and butter. I’m so confused. ☹ \*\* Me too. What you’re making sounds like glompki (sp?). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/5 "2003-12-27T00:35:00Z")
Ummmmm, [**mangeorge**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198659&perpage=50&pagenumber=1) isn’t going to help, is he? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/6 "2003-12-27T00:38:30Z")
My mum is slovack,and she used to make halushki (dumplings and cabbage in butter),homemade perogies, and liver dumpling soup. Halushki’s are good. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/7 "2003-12-27T04:36:58Z")
Hey, it’s free right? Who cares what it’s called, I’m in! Glad to hear you’re feeling better, **Trip**. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/8 "2003-12-27T05:22:33Z")
It could be that my dear grandmother has slipped in her later years. . . . . . but these things are still damn tasty. So, what do _you_ call ‘em? I take cabbage, boil it to soften it, and then wrap lumps of ground beef/pork/veal/all of the mentioned in the cabbage, an’ stew it for an hour or so (don’t forget the wafts of garlic floating through the house. **Mom-mom Trip** calls 'em “holubki”, and I’ve seen references to the same in cookbooks. What do you call 'em? Tripler The whole “pigs in a blanket” thing threw me off for years. I always thought those were roasted weenie tots. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/9 "2003-12-27T05:24:09Z")
Oh, and thanks **Queen Tonya** , I am feeling a hell of a lot better today. Tripler Well enough that I’m gonna go open that bottle of red wine I was savin’ for last night. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/10 "2003-12-27T07:39:49Z")
I’m in! I was born and raised with Ukrainians around (and assorted other Eastern Europeans), so that’s just good home cookin’ to me. Whatever they’re called back home. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/11 "2003-12-28T02:32:32Z")
We call them halupki or halubki, too. My mom’s parent were from Slovakia. Mmmm, I miss ‘em–gotta learn to make them (vege-style, tho’). I love dumplings & sauerkraut and make them all the time, with butter, salt & pepper. I don’t know of an official name for them, though. ---
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/12 "2003-12-28T11:38:45Z")
I call 'em cabbage rolls. I usually use some pork (bacon works great); add a little rice for my grains, put them in the slow cooker, pour tomato juice over the whole kit and kaboodle, with a few onions and garlic to boot. ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/13 "2003-12-28T16:43:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Casey1505 \* > \*\*Me too. What you’re making sounds like glompki (sp?). \*\* Golabki usually don’t have noodles, though - they’re balls of rice and meat wrapped in cabbage. But I’ve never heard of holubki, is that something similar? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/14 "2003-12-28T17:08:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by karomon \* > \*\*Golabki usually don’t have noodles, though - they’re balls of rice and meat wrapped in cabbage. \*\* Right. Glompki, stuffed cabbage, pigs in the blanket…all the same as far as I know. Halushki is noodles and cabbage. I get confused by all the different Polish food at the Church Picnics in our area. They can call what Tripler’s making “Horse Balls and Gravy” for all I care. They’re still damn tasty. In fact, I was motivated to go out and buy the makings of my own whatchamacallits with the cabbage, meat, rice, and tomato sauce. Stinky kitchen happens later on tonight. The wife gets nervous when the Sacred Hearts Picnic (Polish parish in the area) happens, because that means cabbage, noodles, potato pancakes, beer, and more cabbage for me, Dutch ovens for her. ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/15 "2003-12-28T19:29:54Z")
I call the beef/pork in cabbage (ideally with a tomato soup-ish sauce) galobki (or some variant on that spelling, anyway. I’m polish, so I can never remember how it’s spelled 🙂 ). They are certainly delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/16 "2003-12-28T20:41:21Z")
So, we’re getting close here: **Casey1505** calls 'em “Glompki”, which is close. [sub]and as a matter of fact, the woman–my grandmother–is from Hazleton[/sub] **Flymaster** calls 'em “galobki”, as does **karomon**. I guess with all the dialects over there, it’s like calling it “soda” or “pop”, or “soda pop”. Any case, I call 'em “tasty morsels of goodness”. Whipped up a batch for lunch. I got darn near a quart and a half left. Who wants some? Tripler Now I’m working on dinner: shishkabob. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Dryfreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@Dryfreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryfreeze)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/17 "2003-12-28T22:21:28Z")
Hey Trip: Send some of it this way. I’ll give you my APO AE address, and with the great postal service we have, it’ll arrive sometime in, oh March. hehe ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/18 "2003-12-28T22:40:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dryfreeze \* > \*\*Hey Trip: > Send some of it this way. I’ll give you my APO AE address, and with the great postal service we have, it’ll arrive sometime in, oh March. > hehe \*\* Hey bud, if I had anyway to keep 'em remotely fresh, or even frozen, you’d get the first batch! Tripler I’d send cookies, but I’m not ‘rated’ to bake. Just grill and stew. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/19 "2003-12-28T23:08:04Z")
I am up to trying new things. Sounds yummy, as does anything I don’t have to make myself. 🙂 [slight hijack] **Dryfreeze** , do you need a care package? If so, my email is in my profile. I’ll send you a few goodies [end hijcack] ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166/20 "2003-12-28T23:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tripler \* > \*\ ***Casey1505** calls 'em “Glompki”, which is close. [sub]and as a matter of fact, the woman–my grandmother–is from Hazleton[/sub] > > **Flymaster** calls 'em “galobki”, as does **karomon**. > > I guess with all the dialects over there, it’s like calling it “soda” or “pop”, or “soda pop”. Any case, I call 'em “tasty morsels of goodness”. \*\* “goh-womp-key” is how the Polish name is pronounced. Golabki (or more accurately, go³¹bki) is how it is spelled. Golabki literally means “little pidgeons”, which made me suspect when I was little that they were traditionally made with pidgeon meat. More likely, though, their size and shape just kind of resembles a roasted pidgeon. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-pretty-damn-good-today-im-makin-holubki-who-wants-some/221166.md?page=2)