Grains

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.

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.

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 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: