Perogies & Farmer Sausage

One of my first meals back home is one of my favorites! It is also a Mennonite specialty - cottage cheese perogies and farmer sausage. A perogy is a dough pocket filled with cottage cheese (or other possibilities like potatoe, blueberries, apple), which is dry - unlike the kind you can buy at the grocery store. We cover them in cream gravy - totally unhealthy, but oh, so good! Farmer sausage is a pork product and its grease (from frying) is used to make the gravy.