/ck/ - Food & Cooking

No. It's literally sloppa shit food.

>>14474304
What have you tried? Have you tried making it at home?

>>14474267
The only one I know is the Brazilian version of stroganoff. Which one would you say is easy to make?

>>14474391
Borsch and ukha, both can be made in 20 minutes, potatoes, carrots, dill, bay leaf, onions, garlic, and fish for ukha, or beets and beef/pork for borsch. Usually make it when I get home from work, leave soup to simmer while I shower and it tastes damn good.

>>14474267
Its fucking bland as can be

Good for you OP for finding a diet like that and sticking to it. I'm going to have to try making some fish soup.

>>14474267
I like pelmeni dumplings with , smetana, honey cakes and chicken kiev.

>Italian cooking needs a cupboard of spices
And which spices, praytell, are those?

For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige.

One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!".

Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.

I even dip my fries in McChicken sauce, it's delicious! What a great restaurant.

>>14474396
I am going to skip the Borsch since I don't like beets. Ukha seems too easy to be true. I might try when it gets colder. Thanks.

>>14474267
I agree that Russian food is the best.

>>14474396
I even have my own version that mixes Borsch with Gulasch and I got a lot of Russian approval for it.
No matter how much I make it won't last long and it is fucking delicious.

Polish foods are like that too, you can't present them all fancy and shit but once you dare to taste it you don't want to stop.

>>14474428
>praytell

>>14474267
Try making kvass for yourself! It is the shit.

>>14474267
fuck yeah

>>14475581
>Polish foods are like that too, you can't present >them all fancy and shit but once you dare to >taste it you don't want to stop.

Well, that's pretty accurate, same goes for Czech and, to some point, German food.

t. polan

>>14474267
I love Eastern European food

>>14474267
I don't agree, but holy shit, OP actually made a well thought-out post about real food & cooking. Well done, OP.

>>14474267
I honestly prefer east-german cuisine. Russian is better for large feasts but east-german one is just the right combination of cheap, fast and filling foods with heavy russian and german influence.

>>14474267
Based
>>14474405
Cringe westoid whiteoid jogger wannabe

>>14474267
plov

>>14474267
Based amerimex tovarish
I hope Russian food gains popularity
Do you like Kulesh

>>14474267
It's objectively not the best, but also a lot better than most people think it is

Caucasus food is also good

>>14476249
this Russian food is too much food for a few ppl since the recipes are buffet style usually

>>14476372
Not the best taste wise, can be a little bland sometimes, but it will keep you healthy if you stick to it

>>14474267

>As a mexican American who would eat only spicy foods or fat greasy garbage

That's a shame, Mexican cuisine (when did good) is high level in terms of flavour

>Italian cooking
> A lot of spice
In a average Italian house you cannot find more than oregano, basil, parsley and salt.

I lived in Russia for a very short period of time and while russiann cuisine don't use a lot of spices it taste overall bland or not noteworthy at most.
I think the difference is not using spices and in the same time don't bring out the food umami.

In the end It Is really an underwhelming cuisine, with occasionally some good dishes

>>14476458
>will keep you healthy
Depends on if the cuisine includes those 10 ruble packs of smokes

>>14474396
fuck i gotta try these

>Japanese food
>herbs and spices
This is bait

>>14474396
Do you use a whole fish for the ukha or just fillets? Dont think I have the balls to mess with a whole fish

>>14474428
When it comes to italian cooking I was mostly reffering to herbs, but these are "authentic" recipes from italian Americans.

>>14474541
No prob its great when it's cold out, better with fresh caught fish, but store bought works fine too.

>>14475581
Sounds damn good, I need to try this.

>>14475784
I've been meaning to, no stores around me sell it, so it might be my only option.

>>14476243
Thanks man, almost half of the post on this board are about garbage fast food.

>>14476349
Never tried kulesh, but it looks freaking good, definitley something I should cook around winter.

>>14476635
Mexican food can be very good, but it does use alot of jalapenos and hot peppers, recently my stomache has been rejecting these foods, so I had to stop eating them as often.

>>14478304
Whole fish is actually pretty easy to prepare if you practice on a fillet or two before hand, traditionally you use fresh caught fish, but I just buy white fish fillets from my supermarket and it tastes pretty good

>>14478159
Maybe I shouldn't have lumped japanese in with that group but, when it comes to japanese food, the problem is that theres too many barriers to making authentic japanese food. Some things are easily available, like miso paste, soy sauce, panko, tofu, etc. But others are harder to find or outright just veeeery expensive, such as aburage, natto, konbu, shiso leaves, benishoga, real wasabi, shichimi, and bonito flakes. Not too mention the countless fish that is almost impossible to find if you dont live on the coast.

>>14474267
>As a mexican American who would eat only spicy foods or fat greasy garbage, russian food has repaired my bowel problems and I am no longer lactose intolerant.
>I eat ukha, borsch, kraut and kolbassa, salad olivier, blin, butter brod, potatoes, grilled/baked meats and usually chase it down with kefir or a glass of milk and I feel better than ever.
Congratulations, you are now an honorary white. You do not have to go back.

>>14476635
>russian cuisine don't use a lot of spices it taste overall bland or not noteworthy at most. I think the difference is not using spices and in the same time don't bring out the food umami.

bad take

>>14475781
Anon, you can’t just go posting photos of my likeness without consent like that

Russian anon. ALOT of dishes are really not that good. I found central asian dishes that made their way into russian culture the best, honestly.
Shashlik, plov, lagman (my favorite). The only good russian one are borsch, pelemeni and manti. Russian p4p sucks to be honest.

>>14478989
Thank god, because I hate mexico

>It is simple, almost every recipe is only 5 to 6 ingredients
so its the eastern version of mexican food then

>>14474267
You should try Georgian cuisine tho.

How do you cook ukha in just 20 min?

>>14474267
Ukha, olivier, salmon coulibiac and pelmeni are amazing.

>>14474267
>kolbassa, blin, butter brod
Literally every country on the planet has their variations of sausage, pancakes and sandwiches you dumb fuck.

ESL food is awful. that entire region is disgusting

>>14478428
It is awesome and that soup broke several ppl's diet.

As meats I use some beef but also pig belly with skin for the flavor.

Obviously you start seasoning the beets to your liking,

Plant stuff in this are also onions, 2 bellpeppers, 2 carrots, a good chunk of ginger 2 cloves of garlic, bay leaf and some juniper berries and a few potatoes.

Seasoning: Salt pepper mild mustard and brown sugar

You can make a veggie broth yourself or use powder.

First goes the beets and a few carrots with all the meat until it is browned a bit, drown it in a the better half of a liter of dry redwine and add the cubed potatoes.

Let that cook for about 2 hours and then add the remaining veggies and let that cook for another hour.

And use Paprika powder.


You can serve it with sour cream.

It might sound a bit weird but believe me, everyone who ate that soup loved it.

>>14476093
Absolutely.

A lot of times our dishes are underrated while there is some extremly good stuff.

In northern Germany there is a thing called ''Matjes Brötchen'' and it is just salted pickled hering on a bun with some letuce and onions on top.
Sounds simple but it tastes awesome.

Russian food sucks.

>>14474267
Polish food is superior. pic related

>>14480378
Calm down dude, these are also foods that I learned from russians so I put it in that group. Chorizo and brautwurst is different from kolbassa, and bologna is different from doctor sausage, the type of butter/cheese/ bread, may share similarities but they're prepared differently or have diffeent ingredients.

Pancakes are different from blin or crepes, russian mayo uses sunflower seed oil, black rye bread is different from regular rye. Even russian farmers cheese/ sour cream has a different texture from the american variation.

>>14480354
You put all the ingredients in a pot and let it cook for 20 minutes. It tastes better after a day or two, but I like it the same when I just make it.

Russian food is what's left after your family has been raped and your father is sent to the gulag. So, some rotten potato, a beet, tears.

>>14481090
looks great if anyone has a recipe they rec.

>>14479972
Honestly almost any recipe can be made in a few ingredients but ut depends on where you get your recipes from. The problem for me is needing certain spices or herbs that arent readily available or are used for only one dish and then goes to waste since I have nothing else to use them on.

>>14481090

Polish food is what is left after you're raped by both Germans and Russians at the same time. Warsaw goulash. Fighting a dog for a carrot green.

>>14480777
Sounds good thanks for the recipe, the only thing I dont have are juniper berries, but other than that I can already imagine the taste, I'll havr to make it sometime.

>>14481187
epic

>>14481210
you could just at a shotglas of gin then, cheap one works fine.

>>14481192
Haven't used the cookbook, but ate at Kachka when I was in Portland. Excellent drinks, loved herring in a fur coat, etc
Their cookbook is Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

>>14474541
Beets aren't necessary for borsch. My family makes it with tomato juice instead for colour and by the end it has an orange almost colour to it.

>>14476413
yeeee boy. hachipuri is the shit.

>>14480783
Actually saying "to some point German" I meant that German cousine is imo better and more recognised than Polish and Czech ones.

>>14474267
Russian here, I mostly eat frozen empanadas from the microwave.

>>14478989
That makes me one too! Thank god as well, since i hate cuban "cuisine"
Lard, pork and sugar, that is cuban "cuisine" northeastern euro food is god tier imo

>>14474267
Hey OP,

If you fancy something sweet (fruity), I highly recommend strawberry vareniki/pierogi.
https://www.valyastasteofhome.com/pierogies-with-strawberries-vareniki/
Eat those with creme freche and you'll be in heaven.

>>14483001
oh and btw, i recommend adding a bit of sugar to the strawberries once they are on the dough. makes them juicier and sweeter and you can mellow out the sweetness with the creme freche if its too much.

>>14474267
Russian food is fantastic, but you don't magically get the genes to produce lactate (the enzyme that breaks down lactose) just from eating a different cuisine

>>14483041
He may be thinking of Kefir is basically milk and similar cultured drinks.

I get the shits if I drink too much milk, but kefir/buttermilk etc. don't do anything to me.

>>14483041
>>14483060
Maybe not cured, but Im able to consume a tall glass of milk without farting and cramping, so the kefir helps me with that

>>14474428
>pray tell
Get a grip lad