bagira,
i cannot say for myself that i have a russian lady cooking for me . at least not yet. being an american man and speaking for most american men that i know and work with, most men that i know can or will claim to be a good chef in the kitchen. this is due to the fact that american men or for the most part must learn to cook because their usually fat lazy wives refuse to do anything in the kitchen . if it requires any effort or skill to please their man or to make their child a healthy meal, it is an inconvenience to them. in fact the only thing that most american women know how to make is reservations at a restaurant.
being my mother is from the city of rome , italy and 84 years old. i have learned from the best. i can use every spice and seasoning under the sun . i like chicken cacciotore, or how about chicken kiev?
I do enjoy cooking very much. It is the cleaning that sucks! I have not had any authentic russian cooking at least not at home. I think chicken is best fired or smoked. I am very fond of Barbeque so salt, pepper, garlic, oregeno, brown sugar, tyme, sage, rosemary and of course hickory smoke! Different peppers for different heat levels. Very good with some ginger and pineable juice as well!
Brown sugar,balsamic vinegar,crushed onion and garlic,and a smattering of tomato. Liquid smoke is optional. Let meat become "carmelized" by letting soak overnight--then pop it into the smoker-or use half and half with water,and slow cook in a crock pot all day long. When I was a kid--in the `Redcorn` family--we would put pork in this solution,and let it slow cook on a wood stove all day long. It is the only way I can tolerate fatty meat.
I started out learning how to cook breakfast because my selfish ex-wife would not cook for the kids. I now am a single working dad and I cook most meals. My boys learned that I treated them like Greek gods with many burnt offerings but now it is ok. I cook chicken in a lot of ways with many spices (they cover my mistakes). I always test the first bowl out with the dogs (if they will not eat it neither will the boys)!
My Grill, salt and a good ribeye is all that is needed to feed my son and I healthy at home. :) Having McD's down the street also helps alot (yes I know, not health). My cooking skills have improved a bit since raising my son on my own for just about 7 years now..but I think we both still opt for the local dinner on most nights. I actually have a spice rack with just about every spice under the sun dontated by an x girlfriend many moons ago that the Italian seasoning and the pizza spice are the only opened spice.(I've got a little Italian in me and can make some good home made sgetti sauce. I also agree with Shaggy. The cleaning up after really sucks and that brings us back to plan #1 The local dinner
Me too nurc. Ribeye is Gods most perfect food. I like to use montreal steak seasoning and hickory fire. I started to love them when I started the low carb think. Now I eat ribeye 5 days a week at least one meal.
To those of you more experienced with "continental manners" (aka european style manners) the FSU might not seem unusual.
Be prepared though to find that all Ruusians hold their firks in the wrong hand (in my Americna biased opinion).
Further - learn about "First Course" (soup) and "Second Course" (the main course). Learn that "salad" almost never has lettuce in it but is instead a small parfait type bowl of vegetables with hard boiled egg or something smothered in mayonaise.
You will discover borche at every meal and discover that while each country holds its own as the ideal - they vary tremendously from country to country with the only similarities I've found being a.) they all have beets b.) they all have a dollop of sourcream c.) you cannot get reasonably similar "soups" ANYWHERE in the US that I have ever been.
In Moldova and Ukraine it was typical to have "cilantra" (probably spelled wrong) as commonly as borche.
All in all I like Russian food - or the variety common to wherever I happened to be - once I got used to it.
Shag, if you never have tried it this way ( I hadn't until recently) you should..very easy and the best damn steak I've ever had. Rub oil ( I use a flavored olive oil) over the steak on both sides.. take some coarse kosher salt and salt them good and pepper.. let them sit in the fridge for 30 minutes at the most then put them on the grill. I'll never marinate again!!!
Yes that does sound good. I think some gormet salt is a key ingrediant in the seasoning I use as well as the pepper. Few other things but I agree it sounds good. I dont use anything else as far as a marinade. I rarely put any kind of sauce on those.
Jet I absolutely hate beets please tell me the flavor is not strong in the soup!
Jetman,
About the borche, it is something of a bragging right over there. It is like Italians saying they have the best sauce. Every borche i had, had beets and it is quite delicious. But the ladies i ate with say they could do better than the first class restaurant we were at . That i liked to hear. In all, the first class places i ate at and the many i did were impeccable in their cuisine and service, they were barnone to make us happy. I have never had that kind of attention and service and quality food in america.
chiken for a 15 minuts
take a bottle fo milk ( bottle with a wide neck )
pour a floor of a bottle of water, pepper & salt water.
now prepered a chiken.
rub the chiken with salt and pepper, to smear with mayonnaise.dress the chiken on a bottle and to put in an oven. after 15 min it's been redy
bon appetite
2, wery good taste chiken with limon inside.when it's redy , put aut the limon.Before putting the whole lemon in the hen, pierce it some times a plug
Shaggy:
rest easy,
the beets do not overpower the soup at all,always very tasty,and always very well made too.
jmoluv:
how true........every woman from the FSU considers her borscht to be the best,and my experience of this dish has done nothing to convince me otherwise!!......:)).
(just be diplomatic in your praise),....LOL.
I don't mind the smell but I have never liked the taste one bit. I will do what I have to do though...lol. I have surprised myself a few times maybe I will like it...well maybe.
I happen to like beets - but generally the taste of the beets in borscht is not that strong. Another great soup though - Io think its Ukrainian - is selantra (maybe its "celantro"). It seemed to be very common - and when I mentioned that i liked it perhaps even better than borscht - it suddenly began appearing at every meal and at every restaurant. She kept ordering it for me. Eventually I had had enough.