Fruits

Winter Salad

Ingredients:

½ lb boiled meat
2/3 lb boiled potatoes
3 medium pickled cucumbers
1 hard-boiled egg
Mayonnaise on taste
1 medium boiled beet
1 medium boiled carrot
2 tbsp pickled fruits or berries
2 tbsp meat jelly

Method:

Cut the meat, potatoes, and cucumbers into same-size cuts.
Grate the egg.
Mix the meat, potatoes, egg, and cucumbers with the mayo.
Put the mix in the middle of a large flat plate.

“White Birch” Salad

Ingredients:

1 cup boiled chicken breast cut into medium cubes
1 green apple, peeled and thinly grated
3 boiled egg whites thinly grated
1 shallot onion, peeled, cut into half-rings, and fried for 2 minutes with vegetable oil
¼ lb grated cheese
Mayonnaise and greens on taste

Method:

Put a layer of fried onions in a salad bowl, sprinkle with mayo.
Put a boiled chicken meat layer over it, sprinkle with mayo.
Put the next layer of grated egg whites, cover with mayo.

Rainbow Salad

Ingredients:

Any green salad bag
1 English cucumber
1 red sweet pepper
1 orange sweet pepper
1 yellow sweet pepper
0.5 lb cherry tomatoes
1 large blue (violet) onion
¼ lb crumbled or cubed Feta

For dressing:

Dill, Italian parsley, onions greens
Baked sesame seeds
Baked sunflower seeds
4 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp grated garlic

Method:

Favorite Carrot Roll Recipe of Khruschev’s wife

Note:

Nikita Khruschev was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Ingredients:

5 medium carrots
3-4 tbsp whipping cream
2 tbsp wheat
1 egg
7 tbsp tvorog (or cream cheese)
Apple slices, or dried plums, or dried apricots, or raisins – on taste
1 egg yolk
1-2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp butter

Crab Salad with Caviar

Ingredients:

0.75 lb crabmeat, or crabmeat imitation
1 large green apple (Granny Smith preferably)
1 sweet red pepper
Caviar – 1 can (1/8 lb)
"1000 islands" dressing on taste

Method:

Peel and grate the apple, and the pepper.
Cut crabmeat, or imitation, into very small cuts.
Mix crabmeat, apple, pepper, caviar, and sauce on taste.
Decorate with seafood.
You can serve this dish as a salad, in a salad bowl, or as an appetizer, in tartlets, or Panna Cotta.

Herring in sour cream

Ingredients:

1 large salted herring
Small shallot onion
1 medium apple
0.4 lb sour cream
1-2 tbsp lemon juice
Salt and sugar on taste
Dill greens for decoration

Method:

Soak the herring in water for 12 hours, drain, and soak the herring in milk for 12 hours.
Clean, remove all bones, and cut into medium pieces.
Cut onions into medium slices; grate peeled the apple, then mix the apple, onions, and sour cream.

Bigos

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:

Meringues with bananas

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.

Tvorog Ponchicks – Russian doughnuts

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:

Fish in Madeira sauce

Ingredients:

4 fish fillets (preferably trout) pieces by 0.5 lb (or 8 by 0.25 lb)
1 lemon
0.5 tsp grated pepper
1 cup Madeira
1 tsp butter

For sauce:

1 tbsp butter
3 tbsp wheat flour
0.5 cup cream
Garlic on taste
0.5 cup dill cuts

Method:

Mix Madeira, lemon juice, and pepper together.
Put fish fillets in this mix, roll, and let stand for 1 hour.
Pre-heat an oven to 380º F.

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