Everyone loves a good salad, and this Sour Cream Cucumber Salad will not disappoint! Mum always made this salad using fresh cucumbers picked from the garden. This recipe is of Polish origin called Mizeria, which literally translates to misery. It’s a delicious but basic poor man’s salad with using only sour cream and cucumbers. Some…
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Fried Eggplant
Fried Eggplant Slices (Жареные баклажаны) is a simple and rustic dish from my childhood. We had a large backyard garden and we had rows of vegetables growing, including eggplants. It was usually in the late summer that mom would make the different eggplant recipes. How Do You Eat Eggplant? Some people don’t know how to…
Fermented Tomatoes
Russian Fermented Tomatoes literally translate to ‘Salted Tomatoes’ in Russian, as they are make in a salt brine. The Russian way of pickling doesn’t traditionally involve vinegar, but some recipes add vinegar too now, especially if you are going to be canning them for the winter. My tomato recipe is called Fermented Tomatoes (Квашеные помидоры), but…
Tuna Rice Salad
Salads like a Russian Tuna Rice Salad (рыбный салат) are very different from the salads we eat in our western culture. They tend to be very hearty, heavy, meaty and filled with mayonnaise. Western salads are very green, leafy, and light in comparison. Many Russian salads have meat or fish in them, with beetroot, carrots and…
