All About Russian Food

Eastern world likes to have barbecue. Russian people have there own dish for outdoors parties. Its name is shashlik. Shashlik is meat marinated in special way and fried on bonfire. Mix of onion, spices, lemon juice or vine makes meat soft and very tasty.

To cook shaslik you will need:

Fresh pork

Onions

Pepper

Lemon or glass of dry white wine

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People of every nation have their favorite dishes, which they cook for festive dinners and as every day meals. Russians are not exception. Among variety of favorite dishes of Russians salads take their place as good snacks.

Russians eat salads in addition to main dish or can use them as main dish.

The most popular salads in Russia are potato salad, vinegret, red-beet salad, “healthy” salad.
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Russians have culture of drinking vodka which is connected with using different types of snacks. Not every snacks is good for vodka. Russians prefer to have some vodka with pickled herring, marinated cucumber, red caviar.

It is traditional titbits at the table where vodka is served.
Russian eat all this products for a taste. It means that after drinking vodka first of all they eat snacks and then continue their dinner by eating main dishes such as popatoes, meat, fish and differents salads. [Read more →]

Easter is one of the most impotant holidays of Russian ortodox church. Many days before Eastertide ortodox believers keep the fast. They don’t eat meat, milk products, eggs, don’t drink alcohol and don’t even use salt and oil cooking their meals.

But when Eastertide comes, Russian usually have rich dinners with a lot of delicious foods.
There are some special traditional meals that are to be eaten at Eastertide.
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Russian woman are supposed to be among those who has the slimmest figure in the world. At the same time fitness is not so popular in Russia. It is hardly a half of Russian women population who do exercises everyday. What is their secret then?

A lot of Russian women use Kremlin diet to keep their bodies fit and slim. At USSR times this diet was a secret - it was used only by political heads of the state, Olympic athletes, Russian movie stars.
Since times when secrets of diet were opened, a lot of Russian people with overweight lot lbs. with Kremlin diet. [Read more →]