| elFreak |
challenge stands
wiki = written by russian wanting the world to think they invented something.
tons of published articles in respected publications: frenchman invented it as a chicken cordon bleu substitute to please eastern european and russian immigrant tastes in north america.:p
hint: you won't find one
written by a russian on russian cooking:
| quote: | Dear Winston,
Well, actually you're right about the Russian food. Living here, I very
often hear
the words "Russian culinary" or "Russian food" said out loudly! You
must have noticed
from the profiles of women you go through on the net that say they like
"Russian Food".
But what is this Russian food? Frankly speaking, living in Russia for 9
good years,
I've come to the conclusion that there is no such thing called the
Russian culinary!
Imagine - how people eat chicken - take a chicken leg, put it in water
to boil add salt
little onion and garlic. Some people put a leaf of something while its
boiling. Take it out,
and eat it with cucumber and tomatoes, some vodka or beer. There are no
elaborate
preparations. And the taste- gross. I new a man who would go to the
market to select
meat and he would take the raw blood frozen raw piece of meat and taste
it right there.
The usual Russian bread is the 'brick' or the 'baton'! which is hard.
Though not as hard as
the real brick but something similar.
The dishes:
1. Borsch - the borsche is a soup made of a few vegetables and often
done with meat.
It is a Ukrainian specialty not Russian.
2.Schie - it is considered Russian. some vegetables also cooked with
meat. Has salt in it.
3. Mashed potatoes (kartoshka) - Boiled salted potato mashed and eaten
with anything.
4. Pelmeni - meat balls stuffed in flour (oval shaped). When stuffed
with potato, cabbage or cheese -
it's called another name.
5. Blini - pan cakes. Flour, some egg, milk and sugar mixed and poured
on panes.
Though Russins think this a bigtime Russian speciality
and begining of Spring
is celebrated with Blins, you can find them anywhere
else
too.
6. Russian salad - could be anything. Sour milk cream mixed with meat
or crab meat or shrimp with
green peas, cucumber, reddish and maize. In most cases you get
green peas and maize (actually
always) marinated in tins. Not fresh.
As a rule, meat is the most vital part of diet. Anything is made
of
it.
Oh yeah and I forgot to mention the meat fried with sun flower oil -
cutlets. And the ever favorite
sausages. As such these are available in any country. There is
nothing so Russian about it! You can boil
or fry anything. It doesn't become Russian that way only.
7. Chocolates and ice-creams - I you can always hear them saying these
are the best
in the world. There is an ad on tv showing woman one lady
traveling to Europe by train who is
told by another Russian chocolate eating woman that she won't get
these in Europe,
the lady upon hearing this stops the train by pulling the chain
and goes back by foot to Russia,
just because she doesn't want to miss Russian Chocolate. Though
they are trying to improve them
using imported technology, but traditionally, the taste is just
gross.
8. Biscuits - big and gross. Look and taste something like the square
paper mat you get served under
your beer mug in bars. There is a joke on this. A drunk is served
beer he gulps it down quickly and
asks for again. This happens for the fourth time. When the
bartender gives him the fifth mug, he
asks what about the biscuit? The bartender asks what biscuit? He
says - the one you give free with
every mug! So the drunk thought it was the biscuit. Also many
russians may just keep a piece of bread
or biscuit on the table, not the plate!
All these things are available in other countries too and are made the
same way or usually much better.
To be honest, there is nothing Russian about them. We can't talk about
any national recipes or cooking
skills here!
Spices - Sorry, there are no spices! Well, okay, salt and pepper. Most
local spices come from the caucasus
regions of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia etc. They are
not the best though. As such, Russians can't
really handle any spices in their food! Any spice seems
to be an equivalent of "chilly" and "hot"!
So no wonder most food is plainly salted. They on the
contrary think spices take away the real taste
of food. Potato should taste like potato. With coriander or
something in it would loose the original taste.
I've seen exceptions to this though.
When a Russian friend came to India, she was blown away with the
variety of vegetarian dishes, sweets and
ice cream. We cooked everyday a new dish for one month. Anyway, If you
want, I'll tell you about Indian
food some other time. Local things made with traditional recipes that
taste great.
As for now - you can enjoy the great "Russian Culinary"! |
i'm bored. |
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