So what is your SO cooking tonight? Or yesterday or tomorrow.
I am more interested to hear a russian menu

My hubby and I are both russian so most of the time it's russian food but sometimes other.

Yesterday was shepherd pie

Today pork chops with salad.

ur not Russian u r Ukrainian...

Yesterday it was Salad, Split Pea Soup, White Fish

Today... Lasagna

As soon as I saw a reply from you Jon, I knew that you corrected me that I wasn't Russian but Ukrainian.
You see Jon, I left Ukraine almost 19 years ago and back then it was all part of Russia and I am so used to it that's why more or less I call myself Russian

I love split pea soup, Sveta did it?

And who is making lasagna, you or Sveta?

BTW, when are you visiting NY again?

I will correct you again... 19 years ago it was not Russia it was the USSR....

When Sveta works late I cook, When she gets finished early she cooks... She finished today at 3:00

So she's cooking lasagna?

What about russian/ukrainian food? What does she usually cook?

P.S. you avoided my question about visiting NY

da.. my recipe...

So many different foods from so many different regions most I can't pronounce or spell...

NY? been there, done that...

PS you know the number... give her a call...

You never change
I should give her a call, just got to find some free time

Oh, I could die for some of Alla's cooking. However, lasagna will not be on our menu when she arrives. Это не русский. Some fish, pork, chicken or her fried potatoes would be great. Вкусно!

All will not explore other food but Russian?

Maybe at a restaurant, but not in her kitchen. And that is fine by me!

I thought that of my wife but she surprised me

Note the bias in the question - that it is the SO that is doing the cooking....

FWIW - I had salad tonight. My wife had salad tonight. I had salad last night. My wife had salad last night.
I made my own salad.
She made her own salad.
We will probably have salad tomorrow night too. If we do, I will be making my own salad.

Cheers!
td

I hate most Russian food. Right now I am eating penne pasta with bolognese sauce from a jar. I will also eat finnish flatbread with high-quality spreadable cheese.

Hate...! Wow! I never had such tasty food in my life. I longed for every birthday and holiday when we could go to her grandmother's or mom's for the spread! Очень вкусно!

Why do you hate it?
Aren't you Russian as well?
What did you eat when you lived in Russia?




Are you guys on the diet or something? or vegetarians?
What kind of salad, just greens?

I don't like dill at all, and all of the oil and fat upsets my stomach. Plus I just don't really enjoy it, and if I'm going to eat it's going to be something I like.

My family is Belarusan, but I grew up in America and on American food.

I am back in Russia now, actually, and I eat pretty much the same things I do in America. If you know where to go you can find whatever you want, except for Doritos.

If I am not mistaking, Belorussian food uses a lot of sour cream?

So does Russian. I like sour cream, but I'm also lactose intolerant.

Russians do use a lot of sour cream but not as much as belorussians, belorussians use absolutely EVERYTHING with sour cream

Doesn't matter to me either way as I partake in neither.

Last night it was Plov not Lasagna

Why change of food?

I like good plov but not everyone can make it good, the good one is the one that's made with oil and I do not digest oil at all and that's why can't eat good plov

We usually end up eating different things. (We're on different schedules... 3rd shift sucks!)

However, when we do eat together, and she cooks something, it's usually somewhat Russian in nature and she adds some salads or greens on the side for her. If we eat American food, she still grabs some pickles or cucumbers or something to "make crunchy green" stuff on the side. She simply cannot eat without having a salad on the side.

I am making progress with getting her to eat "$#!tty food." I'll sneak in some chicken wings, pizza, and the new treat is the microwaveable BBQ rib sandwiches (like the McDonald's McRib, only more ghetto!) that I take in my lunch to work. I buy an 8 pack and only get to eat about 6 of them. Where the other two go, I'll never know!

No, just lazy.

Well, mine has lettuce, tomato, cheese, carrots, radish, cucumber, kidney beans, bacon bits and Catalina dressing.

I don't know what all my wife puts in hers - I know it has lettuce, tomato, cucumber, some kind of peppers - and I dunno what else.

The "Boss" ate bugwheat and borscht, the menial worker ate jambalya w/chicken. Too spicy for the Boss.

Wow, you guys have titles and everything. Is that just for the kitchen?

Hmmm, how best to answer? Perhaps my perception of being married to a Russian woman. I just post these like this in the hope that others will enjoy or on the faint chance my wife reads my posts will correct me (with discipline please the big belt not the small one!) in a very fitting way. "that is not how we live Jeffrey" you are the boss and I am the menial worker, okay honey have some jambalaya I just made, if you are the menial worker you will enjoy, noooo tooo spicy for my sensitive Russian taste buds. Hence, no Mexican, Thai, Cajun or other spicy foods that make me drool, but there is always bugwheat, curds, borscht, Manka, and other food that tends to the bland. The best food I had in her hometown and Moscow was Armenian, although the cherry preserves were good.

Belorussians are also fond of potatoes. My Belorussian buddy that is similar in age to me (50ish) told me that when he was in the Red Army stationed in Kazakhstan in the 1970's that the Soviet soldiers from other Soviet republics called them бульба, which is the Belorussian word for potato. Apparently their love of potatoes was noticable. My wife is not Belorussian, but is a Russian that lived in Belarus for 19 years before arriving in the USA in 2004. She is also a big fan of potatoes. On my many trips to Belarus to visit my mom's relatives I also noticed that potatoes are very prominent in Belarussian cuisine. Digging potatoes in the rural countryside and the country dachas of the city folk often comes up in conversations during my travels to Belarus. The recipes for potatoes are too numerous to mention.

What else? Beets are also very popular both to Russians and Belorussians. My Russian wife and my mom's Belorussian relatives often prepare grated beets mixed with grated garlic, mayonnaise/sour cream, and garnished with grated nuts on top. Another variant the Russians make with beets is the previous recipe, but in a layered salad with a layer of minced smoked herring and a layer of pototoes. My wife's Russian friend here in Houston said that I am the only American that will eat her smoked herring/beet/potato salad. Her American husband spit it out when he tried it. My guess is that the smoked herring was too strong for him. I told her it must be genetic because I'm 100% American, but have 1/2 Belorussian blood in me. I love the smoked fish and cavier of Russian cuisine.

Of course there is red beet borscht. My wife makes the cold summer variety and the winter hot variety. My wife dumps huge spoonfuls of sour cream into her bowl, but I like mine without. My wife buys fresh beets and prepares them from scratch. No canned beets.

Mushrooms are also very prominent in Russian/Belorussian cuisine. My Siberian wife and Belarussian relatives often talk about hunting for mushrooms in the forest. There are various recipes I have eaten for mushrooms.

Many of the American guests we have to dinner at our house take an instant liking to грзчка (buckwheat). My first aquaintance with buckwheat was on a visit in the early 1990's to the rural village my grandparents were born in. My mom's cousin walked out into a wheat field and pulled up a handfull of ripe wheat stalks. She rubbed the tops between her hands to separate the wheat kernels from the chafe and boiled it like rice. It has been a favorite for me since then. In fact, my wife prepared grechka and chicken for dinner tonight. Yum-Yum!

To be honest, my grandparents immigrated to the USA in their early 20's and lived in the USA 3/4 of their life. It wasn't until I visited their (my) relatives in Belarus and Russia that I was reintroduced to the cuisine of my ancestors from my mom's side of our family. My only memory of Belorussian dishes my mom and grandmother made in the USA frequently was голубцы (cabbage rolls). They made it with ground meat, rice, and various ingrediences wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in a tomato sauce. My mom and granny used ground beef, but my Belorussian relatives and Russian wife use ground pork.

I have noticed that beef is rarely used in Belorussian/Russian recipes. Pork and chicken dominate.

I've gained about 20 pounds during my 4 1/2 year marriage to my wife. She prepare her meals from scratch with very few processed ingrediences. We rarely dine out in restaurants.

I'm sure I missed mentioning lots of my many observations I have made among my Russian and Belorussian friends, relatives, and acquaintances' recipes. Not to mention lots of other the tasty food products from there that Americans are missing out on from Russia.

I forgot to mention vodka. There is always vodka in formal dinners with special guests. There must be at least 3 toasts minimum, but many celebrations include rounds and rounds of food and toasts. Amazingly the rich foods in between the toasts mitigate the effects of straight shots of vodka.

My rural relatives make their own moonshine vodka that is called самогон (samogon). That stuff is deadly. It will burn the hair out of your nostriles and bring tears to your eyes in addition to getting an average American sh*tfaced drunk in only one shot. My advice...stick to the store bought stuff.

Belarusans consume the most potatoes per capita out of any nation in the world.

Grechka is my least favorite food ever. But I do love samogon. My friend makes it and it is very smooth.

My future mother-in-law makes the best! I actually prefer it to vodka, very smooth and flavourful.

I personally never had straight vodka or samogon, i hate alcohol....if I ever order a drink, it's something sweet and i keep asking them for a virgin drink I guess not ALL Russians drink.......I don't

verenki (sp?) on Saturday....

VARENIKI with what? what was inside? Love that stuff

I am making stew with vegetables in a small pot today Grandma's receipe!

smashed taters and onions

what is taters?
from what i know, onions can come with either meat or potatoes in vareniki!
how long did it take her to make it as i'm sure she made it from scratch.

OMG... Ok Anna... I will be type real slow for you so stay with me, OK ... taters = potatoes

Yes from scratch... From start to finish about 1 hr. preparation time, 10 minutes to cook...

We met up with some Russian folks from the area yesterday and had shashliki over the fire.

And then the beer and vodka..... what a crazy night!

Never heard the word taters




We went out with my parents on Saturday too for shashliki and yesterday was my parent's anniversary, so my dad was making a lot of BBQ and my hubby helped him. Summer time we have shashliki almost every weekend.

Ever here of comedian Ron White (aka tater tot or tater salad)?





An excellent social meal.... one of my favorites as well... We did it Memorial Day weekend

Next time you and Sveta will come to NY ( ) I will take you to this awesome Russian place that makes the best shashliki, it'll be my treat

I'll remember that right after you and Vova visit the great frozen northland

Ron White Rules!

For a Texan, he ain't too bad!

Can we continue please

please share your breakfast/lunch/dinner ?

yesterday was fish for dinner
today beef stew.

breakfast is always leftovers from the previous night.

that's a heavy breakfast!!!

i wonder if those that are married to russians if their SO craves smoked fish, herrings and etc?

OMG YES!!!

Come to NY and I will take you to good places to take Sveta to and satisfy her cravings

We have Kiev Foods & Minsk Market to name just a couple shops here... I know it doesn't compare to Brooklyn but.....