Good night, guys. Well, it's night in Japan now, but I cannot sleep as I am thinking. What am I thinking about? A problem, guys. We agreed to have a New Year party in different national styles, so everybody has to bring a couple of national dishes. I broke my mind deciding what to cook. I asked my mother how to make 'pirozhki' and 'sel'd pod shuboi' and hope to impress my friends. Well, as you can guess, this post aims to ask you about usual dishes you prepare for the New Year party or on other special occasions, as well as about your favourite dish.
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Hello, dear the Cleverest. I have always known that you are a gourmet.
Well, when I cook for the New Year party, I usually don't bother about some sophisticated dishes - I don't care. It's just another day.
But my mom cooks a lot, as if it was that last holiday ever. So, she necessarily prepares jellied meat, about three salades, pickles, chicken, a cake. Then we have to eat it up for at least three days.-:))
Once I had the same problem - I had to bring Russian dishes for a party. That was tricky because out of certain circumstances I had to cook only vegetarian...Can you think about any really russian speciality vegetarian dish? The only thing I could come up with were pancakes... But pancakes exist in different variations in many cultures, so I couldn`t really surprise anybody..
Ajana, it's not a big problem. You can make Borsch without meat inside or Green Borstch. Also you can use buckwheat as a dressing for the fish dish.
The good idea could be - eggplant rolls with carrot-garlic filling.
I wanted to cook Borstch to surprise my friends in Japan, but you can't buy beetroot there (say, the Cleverest). I don't know about Canada, really.
Vegetarians can also be different - there are some that just don't eat meat, and some that don't eat meat, fish, milk and eggs. If to take into consideration only the first part, I think that 'seld pod shuboi' will be ok. I also had a idea about 'vareniki' with some potato or curds filling. (Though maybe it's more ukranian, but after all, what is Ukrain if not historacal Russia (at least part of it)? Kievskaya Rus'?)
Anton, thank you for suggestions. Espetially the idea about eggplant - that would be a purely vegetarian dish. But the thing is, when Im thinking about some purely cultural dish, I find it hard to find a really unique one. Because even "vareniki" variation exists, for example, in Chinese and Italian cuisine. As for the types of vegetarians. There are those who dont eat even eggs. So my pancakes were ignored by most of the people. That`s hard for me to imagine, but they can taste eggs even in the dough! As for me, I wouldn`t find the difference between, lets say a cake made with eggs and a purely vegetarian one..
Hello, Ajana, It's been a long time since I visited the blog... My mom makes lenten pancakes of flour and water (I am not kidding) - no eggs, just oil to cook them - they are SO delicious! Well, now I can tell the difference between pancakes with or without eggs. And frankly speaking I like the second variant more!
Speaking about Russian dishes...Today I went to a restaurant and we decided to order a plate with pickles of different kinds - gherkins, garlic, ramson, carrots. And it was too salty and not tasty at all. I thought that if a foreigner had tried it he might have been quite disappointed about a part of russian cuisine!
Hello E.YU! Could you please give me the recipe of those pancakes?
Mom says she takes warm water (about 2 glasses, depends on how many pancakes you want), adds 10 gr of dry yeast, sugar - 3 soupspoonful, salt (a pinch), then adds flour to make dough of the density of sour-cream. Puts it into some warm place for about half an hour. After that, stirs it and adds a soupspoon of oil and a teaspoon of slaked houshold soda. Then again puts it to a warm place for the dough to go up (for about 30 min). Then fries pancakes. Bon appetit!
I must add that I tried to cook the same but cannot say that I succeeded much. I got think and small pancakes, though they were rather pleasant to eat.-^))
Thank you, E.Yu! I will try to make it soon, and then tell you how it is)))
My favorite dish on this day!!!NEW YEAR!!!))) is as usual)) Salad "Olivje" it is really connected with the day 31st of december in my mind))))...hhmmm....i think that we all have the same dishes on our new year tables...don't you think so?)
I agree with Real_Blond that 'olibje' is always on the table in most russian families. We also usually have 'studen' (meat jelly) and 'pelmeni' (meat dumplings) when I celebrate New Year in Russia.
This year I prepared 'sel'd pod shuboi' ('pirozhki' were too difficult for me to make) and my japanese friends liked my salad very much as they had never tried it before.
Speking about the dishes for me New Year is associated with salads and sandwiches with red caviar))
People are always look forward to different celebretions in order to full up till next week...but before and after that saying "I keep the diet!"
You may say I`m crazy because my favourite dish is fry potatoes with sour cream))))And my girl friend loves sausages with sugar...this is really crazy 0_O
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