The father of famous gourmet count Stroganoff (did you try beef a la Stroganoff?) was a Russian ambassador in several countries including Portugal, and a famous gourmet too. He collected recipes in countries he worked from, and returning to Russia, he studied chief cook, as they represented these new dishes as an evaluation of nobilities. Finding and trying out new gourmet recipes was one of the nobilities' leisure in 17th - 19th centuries.
One of the main ingredients of Portugal cuisine was a salt cod "backalau", and 365 recipes of its production exist.

Ingredients for 1:

0.5 lb fish fillet
0.5 lb small young potatoes
1 tbsp white wine
1 tbsp fish broth
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
Parsley green, salt on your taste

Method:

Boil fish fillet in salt water for 10 minutes.
Boil potatoes until ready.
Place the fish and potatoes on a serving plate.
Melt 0.5 tbsp butter, add parsley greens, lemon juice, white wine, fish broth, and mix well.

This is one of the classic Russian dishes – "Liver in sour cream"

Ingredients for 4:

1 lb liver (pork, veal, beef)
1 lb sour cream
3 tbsp vegetable oil
3 tbsp flour
Salt, ground pepper – on your taste

Method:

Wash liver; remove all membranes
Slice into wide thin cuts.
Mix flour, salt, and pepper, and crumb slices in this mix.
Pre-heat a skillet with vegetable oil with high heating.
Put liver slices on the skillet, and fry until a light crust forms.

Ingredients for 4:

1 lb young zucchini
1 cup grated cheese (any)
1 garlic clove
4 tbsp Italian parsley greens
2 tbsp olive oil
Salad leaves to cover serving dish (or for every portion)
Black pepper on taste
4 dried rye bread slices

Method:

Wash and dry zucchini, slice into medium rings.
Cook them with olive oil for 2 minutes per side, and then pour grated cheese, grated garlic, cut parsley greens, and ground black pepper over each zucchini slice.

Ingredients for 4 servings:

0.5 lb small (button) mushrooms
2 tbsp olive oil
0.5 cup white wine
1 tbsp cut coriander greens
1.5 tbsp tomato paste
1 tsp potato starch
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp capers
Salt, pepper, lemon juice on taste

Method:

Mix water, vine, oil, tomato paste, and coriander in a small sauce pan.
Bring mix to boil.
Add mushrooms, and boil for 7 – 10 minutes.
Take mushrooms out the saucepan; put them on a serving dish.

Ingredients:

1 red sweet pepper
1 yellow sweet pepper
1 green sweet pepper
½ lb tvorog (or Ricotta cheese, or farmers cheese with small curd)
½ lb melted cheese (Philadelphia, or other)
3 cloves garlic
Salt, ground pepper, dill greens, parsley greens, coriander greens on taste

Method:

Wash pepper, remove stalks and seeds, and drain on a paper towel.
Mix tvorog, cheese, grated garlic, cut greens (as small as possible), salt, and pepper.
Place it in 3 dishes.

Ingredients:

For blintzes:
50 g flour
2 eggs
0.75 cup milk

For soufflé:
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
2 egg yolks and 3 egg whites
0.75 lb hot smoked salmon
1.25 cup milk
1.25 cup whipping cream
0.25 lb ground "Gruyere" cheese
1 shallot onion
2 tbsp ground parmesan cheese
1 bay leaf

Method:

Mix ingredients for blintzes, blend them, and cook blintzes on a small or medium skillet.

Ingredients:

1 lb tvorog (or Ricotta cheese)
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1.5 – 2 cup flour
0.5 tsp baking soda
0.5 tsp salt
Dried apricots, raisins on taste
Vegetable oil for frying

Method:

Mix tvorog, eggs, salt, 1 cup flour, sugar, and baking soda.
Pour flour on a flat dish.
Put tvorog mix teaspoonful at a time on the flour, put 3 raisins and small cuts of dried apricots in the middle of the tvorog pieces, and roll into a ball.

Note:

Ingredients for 2:

1 lb zucchini

For dough:

Ingredients for 2:

4 zucchini
4 tbsp rice
0.5 lb ground meat
1 shallot onion
2 cups vegetable broth
2 tbsp parsley greens
Salt, dill, and ground pepper on your taste

Method:

Wash zucchini, cut in 2 halves.
Remove the centers of the halves.
Put halves in boiling vegetable broth, and boil for 4-5 minutes (do not over boil!)
Boil rice in salted water for about 15 minutes.
Peel onion, and cut it into small cubes.
Cut dill and parsley greens.