Posts Tagged ‘russian food’

A strange occurrence happened this year - Russian Easter has fallen on the same day as Easter everywhere else. This is the first time it has happened since I have been associated with Russians (about 10 years).
Today we are headed to a Russian Easter gathering at a local park. There will be lots of food [...]

What will you do this year? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Personally I gave those up decades ago. Yes I have desires I wish to fulfill, but no resolutions. One of my desires is to get better at writing. I will be honing my skills over the next few months in order to get [...]

This weekend we were invited to one of my wife’s Russian friend’s house for shashlik - kababs on the grill for us Americans. We drove for about an hour and finally arrived to hang out.
The woman was making salads when we arrived.  And the dog, we’ll change the names in order to protect the innocent. [...]

We’ve brought in another new year, and this one came in with a big bang. We threw a party at our house yesterday. We’re both paying for it today. A little too much vodka, beer, wine and champagne mixed together. Russians sure can party. We socialized, played charades, sung karaoke and drank. Unfortunately, I found [...]

Traditional Russian zakuski and vodka. Zakuski is a collection of different items that you eat when you are drinking vodka. It can be salted fish, tomatoes (I like pickled ones), cucumbers (with dill), chicken, mushrooms or maybe salads. But don’t expect to be able to sip your vodka while eating. The rule is to drink [...]