Food I love.. eating or cooking

[Sculpto]

so you are saying I had a good instinct not to buy those sausages in the corner markets?

[OlgaH]

A man says to his wife: honey, we're out of toilet paper, and none of the stores have it today either.. She replies: check the kolbasa in the fridge, there should be some left in it..

Exactly   the cellulose especially could be found in huge amount in kolbasa  during 1990s  

[possum]

I remember the bread shortages of 1941.. We used to spread our butter right on the kolbasa..

[chivo]

I usually have eggs on the weekend, with potatoes. Is 3 yokes normal in one egg ???? Maybe it happens other places but I've never seen it before I moved here.

[OlgaH]

I usually have eggs on the weekend, with potatoes. Is 3 yokes normal in one egg ???? Maybe it happens other places but I've never seen it before I moved here.

http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

[OlgaH]

Food History and Superstitions
In Europe, eggs are used to tell fortunes. An egg with a double yolk means an impending marriage, an egg with a dark spot on the yolk symbolizes a bad omen, and an egg without a yolk is plain old unlucky. http://www.abroadco.com/Blogs/Ann/archive/2007/08/30/Food-History-and-Superstitions.aspx

Interesting what they would say about three yolk egg  

[chivo]

Thanks Olga. I thought it was some Chernobyl thing .

That Chinese shape egg looks like a marital aide .

Didnt catch the 3 yoke thing. Must be an impeding marriage to a RW

[OlgaH]

Thanks Olga. I thought it was some Chernobyl thing .

You are welcome.

Dark humor:

At the market:
-Potato! Potato from Chernobyl!
- What are you doing? You will not sell any!
- I already sold hundreds of buckets! Men buy it for their MILs!

[Sculpto]

so.. lol... really funny stuff!

I found a cafe that only served Pelmini.. well they had vernikyi also.. and some variant from Georgia that I really wanted to try with mutton but took 45 minutes to prepare so I passed..

The Pelmini were awesome.. really delicious.. but what I don't understand is.. with such a really wonderful staple food.. why isn't there a decent sauce to go with it?  The cream just didn't cut it at all..

And.. are these Pelmini houses a common sort of place?  It had a very nice atmosphere.

[ECOCKS]

so.. lol... really funny stuff!

I found a cafe that only served Pelmini.. well they had vernikyi also.. and some variant from Georgia that I really wanted to try with mutton but took 45 minutes to prepare so I passed..

The Pelmini were awesome.. really delicious.. but what I don't understand is.. with such a really wonderful staple food.. why isn't there a decent sauce to go with it?  The cream just didn't cut it at all..

And.. are these Pelmini houses a common sort of place?  It had a very nice atmosphere.

Certainly you could prepare different sauces but you'd have to remember all the different types of fillings as to what would fit. Sour cream seems sort of like the universal fill in. I also liked them in butter or olive oil and the dessert ones with whipped cream. You could top with chives, garlic and other other dry toppings. There's no reason you couldn't use marinara, pesto or alfredo on the meat, mushrooms or potato filled ones. Cinnamon and cocoa could top the desserts as well. I could equally see several topping sauces on desserts like drizzles of vanilla, chocolate, caramel, butterscotch, strawberry and all sorts of jams.

If I understand correctly a pelmennaia specialized in pelmeni while a varenichnaia specializes in vareniki.

[ECOCKS]

Personally, I cannot stand McNuggets but this AW apparently has a real thing for them....wild and not without a certain humor despite the violence.




Woman indicted after bizarre McDonalds drive-thru McNugget rampage ends up on YouTube
 http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+indicted+after+bizarre+McDonalds+drive+thru+McNugget+rampage+ends+YouTube/3382064/story.html#ixzz0wEjNdH5V

[Ranetka]

I'm laffin' 'cause I know how they made kolbasa in the Soviet Union: they would take starch, ground paper, some spices and a little bit of meat, the key word being LITTLE, mix it all up then roll it up into a stick of kolbasa..

Yeah...And now we (older generation he he 40-ish) know how wrong we were and how good soviet kolbasa actually was comparing to nowadays....There is a reason why in order to promote food now they put "is made according to GOST" which is state standard like in USSR....

~AWWWWWW want a proper kolbasa!!!! not garlic sausage, not salami, not silly polish imitation....I want Molochnaya Kolbasa!!!!

Sorry...just a little runt.

[elliott]

...no one seemed to enjoy the attempts at waffles or western-style pancakes there...

On a related note, what do Russians do for pure maple syrup?  Wikipedia says that the general geographic range of native maple trees commonly used for syrup production, the sugar maple and black maple, is the northeastern US and eastern Canada.  Where does that put the FSU for pure maple syrup production and consumption?

[ECOCKS]

On a related note, what do Russians do for pure maple syrup?  Wikipedia says that the general geographic range of native maple trees commonly used for syrup production, the sugar maple and black maple, is the northeastern US and eastern Canada.  Where does that put the FSU for pure maple syrup production and consumption?

On the import market.....

You can find it there but it's like $10 for a small can.

They mostly seemed to use jams and jellies for topping/filling.

[Sculpto]

No one i know in Russia had any clue what maple syrup is.  Nor have I ever seen it offered on any food in a cafe or pectopah.

Ladies.. any thoughts on one of my favorites?  I literally can not be happy without maple syrup.  BTW.. did you all know that grade B in general tastes better than grade A and has more minerals?

[SANDRO43]

Maple syrup, and also peanut butter, are largely unknown in Europe .

[Ranetka]

so.. lol... really funny stuff!

I found a cafe that only served Pelmini.. well they had vernikyi also.. and some variant from Georgia that I really wanted to try with mutton but took 45 minutes to prepare so I passed..

The Pelmini were awesome.. really delicious.. but what I don't understand is.. with such a really wonderful staple food.. why isn't there a decent sauce to go with it?  The cream just didn't cut it at all..

And.. are these Pelmini houses a common sort of place?  It had a very nice atmosphere.

The answer is: Tradition :-)
Traditionally pelmeni is eaten with sour cream or butter+black pepper or vinegar. Vinegar is Siberian thing I think, when I lived in Saint-Peterburg no-one would beleive you can eat pelmeni with vinegar. Also horseradish or chrenader (tomato plus horseradish) or with pelmeni stock. Or catchup. Or mayonesse.
Tradition. All my English friends eat fish and chips with salt and vinegar, no other sauce is ever used. No-one could tell me why. Tradition.

[SANDRO43]

The answer is: Tradition :-)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw[/youtube]

[Sculpto]

Maple syrup, and also peanut butter, are largely unknown in Europe .

I am not a giant fan of peanut butter.. almond or cashew or walnut butter or especially macadamia butter is much nicer.    Though I suspect they are pretty much unknown in Europe also..

Maple syrup on the other hand.. the only sweet flavor I like more is old fashioned vanilla.  There is an ice cream place not far from my house that makes vanilla saffron that is really out of this world.

[Ranetka]

No one i know in Russia had any clue what maple syrup is.  Nor have I ever seen it offered on any food in a cafe or pectopah.

Ladies.. any thoughts on one of my favorites?  I literally can not be happy without maple syrup.  BTW.. did you all know that grade B in general tastes better than grade A and has more minerals?

You shall suffer then :-) Bring some with you next time you go to Russia. Seriously.

Russia still has shortages of marple syrup, it's all communists fault. Marple syrup was considered a decadent capitalist luxury, everyone in pocession of marple syrup would go to Gulag for ten years. Just be careful, if Putin agents see marple syrup they will arest you and throw you in prison cell together with dissident journalists...Marple syrup demonstrations are not allowed. Free press does not exist in Russia therefore this conspiracy is not unvielled yet. Unsuspecting Russian people do not know what basic human right is to have a marple syrup. They are afraid to answer you questions about marple syrup because of Putin opression regime.

 :evil:

Just bring some with you next time.

[Sculpto]

lol @ tradition.. well that explains everything!    in my neck of the woods we like to turn traditions upside down... so.. I propose goat meat pelmini with pesto infused with dill..

[Sculpto]

You shall suffer then :-) Bring some with you next time you go to Russia. Seriously.

Russia still has shortages of marple syrup, it's all communists fault. Marple syrup was considered a decadent capitalist luxury, everyone in pocession of marple syrup would go to Gulag for ten years. Just be careful, if Putin agents see marple syrup they will arest you and throw you in prison cell together with dissident journalists...Marple syrup demonstrations are not allowed. Free press does not exist in Russia therefore this conspiracy is not unvielled yet. Unsuspecting Russian people do not know what basic human right is to have a marple syrup. They are afraid to answer you questions about marple syrup because of Putin opression regime.

 :evil:

Just bring some with you next time.

I brought it with me this time.  And let me tell you.. finding a smaller than 3 ounce container was no small effort.. and then of course it was way too hot to cook the promised blini and apparently the kitchen was not equipped some some crucial element for proper blini cooking.

btw.. I didn't register again and no one said squat at immigration.  I asked the agent.. "what would happen if I lost my tourist card?" and she just smiled.. she was cute.. nice smile.. looked hot in that uniform..

[ECOCKS]

You shall suffer then :-) Bring some with you next time you go to Russia. Seriously.

Russia still has shortages of marple syrup, it's all communists fault. Marple syrup was considered a decadent capitalist luxury, everyone in pocession of marple syrup would go to Gulag for ten years. Just be careful, if Putin agents see marple syrup they will arest you and throw you in prison cell together with dissident journalists...Marple syrup demonstrations are not allowed. Free press does not exist in Russia therefore this conspiracy is not unvielled yet. Unsuspecting Russian people do not know what basic human right is to have a marple syrup. They are afraid to answer you questions about marple syrup because of Putin opression regime.

 :evil:

Just bring some with you next time.

I suspected as much. This confirms my impression of Russia's leaders and their oppression of good, decent, maple-syrup-loving people. You need a visit from Sarah Palin in order to rattle the cages over there and get them to understand there are limits to how much human beings will tolerate.

[SANDRO43]

Russia still has shortages of marple syrup

No wonder, strictly British .

[Rubicon]

Maple syrup demonstrations not allowed!  LOL!