/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8177568
What the fuck is a Russian blini? And why isn't it called a Russian pancake?

>>8177577
Cuz its a russian pancake
Think of it as a french pancake but russian.

It's fucking dough, big whoop

>>8177580
Oh, I see. So like a big mac from burger king? Got it. :)

>>8177582
No more like a McChicken, the best fast food sandwich.

>>8177582
Honestly though, it's a just a crepe.

>>8177588
I'm sorry I mentioned it. Post delicious Eastern European cuisine.

>>8177593
Yeah, I gathered.

>>8177596
Not really eastern cuisine but my grandmama used to make this every day.

>>8177605
Is that the guts of a fruit, or fish eggs?

>>8177608
Fish eggs.
Bread with butter and caviar is a pretty popular dish at celebration of the New Year.

Borsht.
Usually it is cooked from beetroot, but you can male one from rumex or urtica (they are gathered in the spring when they are fresh and soft).
If beetroot, it can be cooked with pig fat.
Rumex borsht is served with a boiled egg.
Both borshts are served with sour cream.

>eastern europe
>food

>>8177626
Sounds really good.
>>8177637
>beetroot
Aussies love our beetroot.
You Russians seem to have the best and the most beautiful women on the planet. I'm fucking moving to Russia!

>>8177644
>the best and
*the best food, and

>>8177644
Stay in Moscow or St. Petersburg if you do, the rest of the country is a hellhole

Rye bread.
Since it's cold here, rye bread aka black bread was cheaper and more available and wheat bread aka white bread was rarer and more expensive (not much but still).
It may be sour, and surely it's not as sweet as wheat bread.
It's good with butter, also it's eaten with pig fat and cucumber.

syrnik

You'll be surprised but bread grew deep into Russian culture.
Don't be surprised if you'll see someone eating noodles or pierogi with bread.
No dinner without bread.

>>8177695
I love sour bread!

>>8177706
Syrniks and oladies are pretty similar to pancakes.
The differences are: you use quark to cook syrniks instead of milk and you use milk or sour milk with some soda to cook oladies.

>>8177568
KOT

Draniki and kolduny are basically potato pancakes and potato pancakes with meat.
Oh, and when cooking kolduny, you should dry out your grated potato.

>>8177637
I made borsch a few nights ago and it was fantastic

If you don't like dill, don't eat Eastern European food.

Dill is seriously in everything.

Also cabbage.

>>8180307
>If you don't like dill
are there really such barbarians posting among us

>>8180307
I like dill in shit, makes everything taste like a nice gherkin.

also one of my grandparents is eastern european, so I've been eating tons of dill flavoured food since I was a kid.

>>8177568
Those aren't the real questions you should be asking. Have you ever had Spanish sushi, or Japanese hamburgers, or Viennese mole?

Russain food is pretty shitty. Grew up with a russian mother.

The food I like the best from russian cuisine is okroschka. It's a cold soup with potatoes, sausage, kefir/yoghurt and fresh veggies and herbs. It's a great summer dish.

>>8177644
Fuck off we're full

>>8177568
>bliny
>russia
It was just russian jews.

>>8177626
As I was saying, jews.

>>8177580
>>8177581
>>8177593
You are supposed to make bliny in the oven, and with yeasted batter - crepes with unyeasted and on the pan. The result is totally different. You can make bliny on the pan too, so in the end it is a type of pancake. Also, you eat bliny with caviar or fish, like salmon. And sour cream. They should be smoked too.

>>8177577
Why french pancakes are called crepes? Why indian pancakes are called chapati or dosa? Why mexican pancakes are called tortillas? Why danish pancakes are called appleskives? Why chinese pancakes are called dabings? Why japanese pancakes are called okonomiyaki? Why greek pancakes are called tiganites?

>>8180316
he he he... *slowly backs away from computer*

Unfortunately, I can't stand the taste of dill.
For whatever reason I find it overpowering.
I have the same problem with fennel/anise flavors.

>>8180466
>For whatever reason I find it overpowering.
you know, I completely get that. i'm the same way with anise too and my pet peeve is parsley, because people put it on almost everything over here (Bulgaria).

>italian pizza
>japanese sushi
>russian blini

you type like gay retard shut up pls!

>>8180476
The first two are legit since they are popular international dishes that are not made exclusively by italians and japanese. No one but russians make blini so this one is redundant.

B L I N I

I don't know about the rest of Eastern Europe, but Russian cuisine is pure crap. Protip: there's a reason you don't see Russian restaurants everywhere the same way you see Italian, Indian, Chinese, Thai etc.

>>8180557
That's because they have only poorfag shit and can only cook with what they can produce in russia which is only the most basic stuff since they have harsh winters and summers. At least that's how their cuisine developed. All of russia was always poor so that's why they only have peasent food and maybe some caviar for the richer folk.

>>8180564
Making peasant food with better quality ingredients is literally the foundation of modern Italian and French cooking

Pelmeni is good

>>8180564
and the government/religion controlled what people ate during certain periods

>>8180567
Compare what french and italian peasants produced and what russian peasents produced.

Russian cuisine is largely based on cows for their milk and pigs and the most basic dough ingredients. Their bread is made so it can be kept long and not to be fresh and on point. Their pickled stuff is just the ingredient with lots of salt and maybe some garlic and a few herbs. Tastes like fucking shit. Food is generally just fatty and ideal to let someone survive in winter. The food there is just to survive and not for pleasure, they have vodka for that.

Even only 20 years back when I visited this shithole everyone was poor as fuck. They import barely anything and mainly eat what they always ate. Nowadays it could be better but I honestly doubt it.

>>8180595
This pretty much. Russian food is just fat and potatoes, simply cooked.

>>8180595
>>8180615
Exactly this, as anyone who's been to Russia would know.

When you see someone idealising Russian food (like the OP of this thread) you know they're an American who's never even tried it.

>>8180421
This bloke.
Yer awright, cobbah

>>8180652
>idealising

>>8180595
I wonder what 19th century Russian food was like. Before the country went poor due to revolutions, WWI, WWII and communism.

>>8180652
No one is fucking idealising anything you queer, it's a thread about eastern yuro cuisine and presenting it, so stop shitting the thread and post relevant content

pic related, one of the best dishes on earth
t. pole

>>8180421
>we're full

of Central Asians

>>8180795
CookingInRussia's books cover the history of food in russia. For the longest time, food was simply fuel for the body and not something to enjoy.

BLIN

Olivier salad, or what Russians usually mean by Olivier salad, is a popular New Year dish made in huge bowls since it's very popular when celebrating New Year.
It's recipe is extremly easy: boiled potato, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, sausages, pickles, a jar of peas and mix it all with mayo. You can try that on your own.

>>8180923
Our friend and thread mascot, kot jazz, may have an example.

>>8180923
I do this without carrots and miracle whip instead of mayo. I also love the rootbeet variant with sauerkraut

>>8181825
>miracle whip

>>8181940
What's wrong with it?

lettu is superior to blini

>>8181981
What's your favorite dish?

>>8177720
C U T E
U U
T T
E E

>>8177581
>crepe
>dough

No.

>>8180923
>boiled potato, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, sausages, pickles, a jar of peas and mix it all with mayo

Sounds like the sort of thing Jack would make.

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>>8177568
CYKA BLIN!!

Then again New Year Russian salad.
This is "Herring under fur coat"
It's a multi-layer salad, the bottom layer is small pieces of herring.
Higher layers:
- grated onion
- grated boiled potato
- grated boiled carrot
- grated boiled eggs
- grated boiled beetroot.

Every layer above the onion layer you grease with mayo, as much as you want.
Some put grated apples between eggs and beetroot, that's up to you.

>>8183466
Was it ever confirmed that the cat actuall eats blini? His favorite combination, sour cream with jam, doesn't seem that good for a cat.

>>8183536
Blini eat chikin

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>>8177568
>>8183537
So which one is the truth? Does blini cat love chicken the most or is the blini?
>>8183539
Is this even real? What if he was actually making this face while looking at blini and it was just an edit all along?

>>8183546
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>>8181947
/ck/ & r/foodies told him it was yucky

>>8183666

where can I adopt blini kot?

>>8180595
And that's why y'all obese and disguisting and Russians are mostly slim. Get fucked. Russian food is delicious, you're just a filthy pleb who can't appreciate it.

>>8184442
Fuck off, I'm russian and grew up with the food.