Russian food equivilants

[chivo]

all of the posts offer up great ideas and experience to help with the transition, but never forget...if all else fails, just make sure you have plenty of mayonnaise to soak everything in  . good luck.

chivo

http://www.exile.ru/2006-April-21/feature_story.html

[KenC]

ohh, and WHATEVER YOU DO, hold off on intrducing her to Sushi for as long as humanly possible!  You will have an "addict" on your hands in no time...

Jet,
Boy, ain't that the truth!!!  Lena eats sushi for lunch probably 4 to 5 times a week.  It has to be lunch because I can only take it occasionally.  When her mom is in town, they are both there almost every day.  Wassup with RW and sushi any way?  They simply CRAVE the stuff.  Lena claims it even improves her mood.  I don't think I have ever met a RW that didn't like sushi.
KenC

[KenC]

all of the posts offer up great ideas and experience to help with the transition, but never forget...if all else fails, just make sure you have plenty of mayonnaise to soak everything in  . good luck.

chivo

http://www.exile.ru/2006-April-21/feature_story.html

My wife initially liked a lot of mayo, but then quickly switched to ranch dressing.  She seemed to dip anything and everything into ranch dressing for a while.  Now she is more Americanized and uses a light balsamic dressing on her salads.

I don't know if this is unique to my wife, but has anyone else experienced their RW eating a breakfast consisting of nuts, cheese, a few slices of bread all dipped in honey?

Oh, yeah, aikorob, you better stock up on HONEY!  And let us not overlook a good variety of tea.
KenC

[jb]

Ken,

Lena's not unique in her breakfast habits.  My wife uses honey as a sweetner replacement in just about all her hot drinks.  She was mostly a tea drinker til she met me, now she's living a more normal life and starts her morning with coffee,, with honey or brown sugar. 

WRT sushi, oh boy~! I'm a salt water fisherman, and some would even say I'm a pretty good one, I rarely go out and get skunked.  Whenever I bring home fresh caught fish, especially spec sea trout, or yellowfin, I can depend on some part of it being converted to sushi immediately.  I even have to guard my live baitwell whenever there is live shrimp in it.  She asked that question about what is the difference between the shrimp I buy for bait and what we buy in the supermarket for the table. When I told her there was no difference except the license of the shrimper, one expensive license for commerical shrimping and the other, cheaper license, for bait shops, but that they both trawled in the same water for shrimp.  When she heard that she began to view my live bait shrimp as sushi on the hoof.   

[KenC]

jb,
That is TFF!!!  (You having to guard your bait from your wife)  Kind of the reverse of the old joke that eating sushi is like eating bait.  These girls really do become connoisseurs of fish of all types once they come here.  I know it is a huge deal for Lena to place her order with a "new" sushi chef.  Her usual sushi master knows her preferences and doesn't need the explanations.  It isn't only the specific type of fish, but also the location of where the fish meat comes from.  Belly meat vs. back meat etc.  And I won't even get into the thickness of the cut!

We always have at least 5 lbs of shrimp on hand at all times.  This is necessary for those late night snacks that happen long after I have gone to sleep.  But it isn't limited to just shrimp at our house.  Crab, lobster, clams, mussels, oysters and fish of ever increasing variety is all within Lena's diet preferences.  Although she has severely cut back on the mollusks after taking an ocean study class at the university.  (All I can get out of her is that I don't want to know what they eat!)  She still will order some oyster "shooter" at our favorite fish house here in San Diego.  A raw oyster and vodka in a shot glass is just too much for her to pass up!
KenC

[aikorob]

I was very surprised when N. said she didn't like ANY seafood--but I wonder if some of that is a pollution awarness concern of hers.

N eats no red meat, just chicken and rabbit--but I did get her to promise that she will at least TRY venison. My cousin-in-law is a coonass; and she has promised to pull out all of the stops whan N arrives here.