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This Russian dish came from Poland.

Ingredients:

2 lb cabbage
1-2 lb sour cabbage
1 lb boneless pork
½ lb veal
½ lb smoked sausage
2 tbsp margarine
2 bay leaves
3 tbsp dried porcini
1 large shallot onion
2 tbsp prune preserves
½ cup Madeira vine

Method:

Ingredients:

1 lb peeled potatoes
3 eggs
1 peeled shallot onion
1 medium peeled carrot
3 tsp vegetable oil
½ lb mushrooms
½ lb ground pork, or ground beef, or mix of ground pork and ground beef
Breadcrumbs

Method:

Boil potatoes until ready, then drain and grate.
Cool until it is warm, add eggs, and blend.
Fry ground carrots and onions until carrots are mild.
Fry ground meat until the color changes, mixing thoroughly.

Ingredients:

Whole pike more than 4 lb weight
1 carrot
2-3 tbsp pork fat
1 large shallot onion
2 egg yolks
Salt, pepper, dried dill greens
A pinch of grated nutmeg
1 lb white bread
1 lb whipping cream
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp mayonnaise

For broth:
Celery root, dill, bay leaves, washed onion shells

Method:

It is a famous dish, but it requires a lot of work, more than stuffed chicken.

Ingredients:

1 lb buckwheat kasha
0.5 lb grated cheese
2 eggs
0.5 lb bread crumbs
3 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:
To make buckwheat kasha, cook 2 measure cups of buckwheat and 4 measure cups of water in a rice-cooker or in a saucepan under a lid for 25 minutes. Cool until warm.
Mix kasha, cheese, eggs, salt, and pepper (optional).
Make round pancakes from the dough. Turn them in breadcrumbs to cover both sides, fry on a skillet with vegetable oil.

Ingredients:

For dough:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp cocoa
1 cup sour cream
1 egg
0.5 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp melted margarine or butter

Method:

Mix all ingredients, and make the dough.
Cover baking shape with baking paper, pour dough in the shape, place into an oven pre-heated to 375-390º F, bake for about 30-40 minutes depending on the oven.

For crème:

3 tbsp sugar

Ingredients for 2:

1 lb fish fillets without skin and bones
2 eggs
½ cup beer
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt
Breadcrumbs

Method:

Make dough from the breadcrumbs, beer, eggs, and salt.
Pre-heat a fryer or a deep skillet with 4 or more tbsp vegetable oil.
Cut fillets to medium-size pieces, dip every piece in dough a couple times.
Fry for about 4 minutes in a fryer, or 4 minutes per side in a skillet.
Drain on paper towels, and serve with your favorite garnish and dip.

Ingredients:

4 lb zucchini
3 eggs
1 cup pancake flour
0.5 tsp baking soda
Garlic, salt, pepper on taste
0.5 bunch Italian parsley
0.5 bunch dill
0.5 lb mayonnaise

Method:

Peel and grate zucchini and garlic, add flour, salt, pepper, and baking soda, and make dough.
Cook like usual blinis (look at blinis recipe). Cut dill and parsley.
Put the first blin on a flat plate, smear with mayonnaise, and sprinkle with greens, and then cover with a next blin.

Ingredients:

1 banana
1-2 tbsp chocolate

For meringues:
1 egg white
1/3 cup sugar

For cream:
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp sweet concentrated milk
1 tbsp any fruit preserves without seeds

Method:

To make meringues, whip cold egg white, and add sugar tablespoonful at a time; continue whipping, until thick consistency. Probably, to make a really thick mix, you will need to add 2-3 more tbsp sugar, or few drops of vinegar.

Okroshka is an extremely popular cold soup for hot summer days.
Its base is "kvass" – a national Russian non-alcoholic drink.
Every housewife has her own recipe of kvass, and there are some patented kvass recipes.

Ingredients:

0.5 lb boiled beef, or 0.5 lb boiled veal, or 0.5 lb ham
0.5 lb boiled and peeled potatoes
1.5 l kvass (about 0.5 G)
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 tsp mustard (optional)
1 tsp sugar
2 medium cucumbers
1 bunch green onion
1 bunch dill
Horseradish, salt on taste

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.