Russian Cuisine

[Gator]

If making your first trip to the FSU, this is a quick photo journey of Russian cuisine.  If the RW you meet invites you to her flat to prepare a local dish, consider yourself blessed.


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[Jumper]

I had pirozhki today .
(boiled egg/dill/potatoe)

 

[ML]

Ochka was invited to an 'all women' party last Saturday hosted by a Chinese woman in the PhD program.

[There were women there from China, USA, Turkey, Iran,  India, Cyprus, Romania, and Brazil.]

She said, "Should I take a cake?"

I said, "No, you should take something Ukrainian."

So she made up a huge batch of piroshki, and only took about a fourth of it to the party.  The rest remained with us (me mainly).

I don't get excited about the piroshki with meat or potato inside; so she made up three dessert varieties:

Triangles with apple inside,
Oval with cherries inside,
Round with raisins and her homemade soft white cheese inside.

Yummy, yummy with whipped cream.

[Anotherkiwi]

Blini are top of the list for me!  I found a wonderful bakery/cafe in St Petersburg (on the east side of Nevsky Prospekt, about ten minutes' walk south of Moskovsky Railway Station) that made marvellous ones with all sorts of fillings - and they were rather larger than the ones in the attached photo.  This place also had the best value croissants that I've had anywhere in the world - and they tasted delicious.

[Anotherkiwi]

Ochka was invited to an 'all women' party last Saturday hosted by a Chinese woman in the PhD program.

[There were women there from China, USA, Turkey, Iran,  India, Cyprus, Romania, and Brazil.]

She said, "Should I take a cake?"

I said, "No, you should take something Ukrainian."

So she made up a huge batch of piroshki, and only took about a fourth of it to the party.  The rest remained with us (me mainly).

I don't get excited about the piroshki with meat or potato inside; so she made up three dessert varieties:

Triangles with apple inside,
Oval with cherries inside,
Round with raisins and her homemade soft white cheese inside.

Yummy, yummy with whipped cream.

I'll pass on the cherries, but the others sound wonderful.  What was the reaction at the party?

[ML]

I'll pass on the cherries, but the others sound wonderful.  What was the reaction at the party?

Apparently there was an over abundance of food, and she is not sure that anyone even ate her piroshki before she left.

No one said anything on later days either.  But Ochka wasn't hurt by it as she knows her cooking is great . . . because I regularly tell her.

[Jumper]

ML-
ahh yes , my wife  made dessert ones as well, apple inside.
very tasty, I just dint happen to bring those for lunch.

[Anotherkiwi]

...But Ochka wasn't hurt by it as she knows her cooking is great . . . because I regularly tell her.

That's all that matters, then! 

[ML]

Blini are top of the list for me! 

One of my favorites also, and Ochka makes them at least once a week.

Several women made them for me in FSU.  I liked them with the soft white cheese inside.

But here, we save the soft white cheese Ochka makes for Sirnike.

We experimented some, and came up with Kraft 'Honey Nut' Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Put that on the flat blin, then toss on some chopped walnuts and finish off with honey.  Then roll up . . . and go to heaven.

[Anotherkiwi]

One of my favorites also, and Ochka makes them at least once a week.

Several women made them for me in FSU.  I liked them with the soft white cheese inside.

But here, we save the soft white cheese Ochka makes for Sirnike.

We experimented some, and came up with Kraft 'Honey Nut' Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Put that on the flat blin, then toss on some chopped walnuts and finish off with honey.  Then roll up . . . and go to heaven.

That would be right...if I tried eating that combination heaven (or the other place  ) would be the likeliest place for me to end up!