All you need are eggs and onion peel. Put them both in boiling water and boil for an hour or so till you see that eggs became brown. Many of Russian hostesses use this way of cooking Easter eggs nowadays, but also they use bright Easter stickers to make eggs looking more festive. On Easter people give to each other such eggs as a present. Easter egg can be stored for a whole years till the next Easter as decoration. If you are interested in Russian traditions, but dont want to cook eggs like Russian do, just buy decorative Easter egg and enjoy happy holiday of Easter.

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.

In the morning Russians usually eat eggs of red colour. Russian women cook them the day before Eastertide. They make eggs red using onion peel for it. Red colour of eggs symbolizes Christ’s blood.

Second traditional Easter dish in Russia is paskha. It is made of curds.
There is hardy can be found Russian hostess that does not cook Easter cake for this day.
Traditions suppose that at Eastertide people gave coloured eggs as a present to each other , visit their relatives and have fun.
Of course, Easter is holiday of all cristians. Catholics, protestants have there own traditions of Eastertide celebration. But all the cristians cook eggs for this day. So you can try to cook them in Russian traditional way.
The simpliest recipe is:
Put onion peels into the water and boil till water get red.
Then add eggs and boil them in red water for 10 minutes. Eggs for Eastertide are ready!

A lot of Russian people associate Soviet Union with excellent quality of products its factories produced. Soviet period of Russian history is characterized with no imported product in the shops and markets. Those day Russia had its own high developed industry. Food industry of Soviet Russia produced different meals of high quality. The most tasty foods became bestsellers – and Soviet brands continue to exist at modern Russian food market. Among of them Russian famous chocolate Alyonka, that “Krasnyi Oktyabr” (Red October) factory produces from Soviet times till nowadays.

Alyonka – one of Russian most popular milk chocolate bars. It is chocolate of high quality, that consists of natural cocoa products. Alyonka has very good taste of real Russian chocolate. On its label is little blue-eyed girl on the wrapper.

Soviet champagne – is the most popular champagne brand in Russia. Now the right of using this brand on the label of champagne is bought by eight largest alcohol-factories of Russia. These factories control the technology of producing Soviet champagne to save it taste like it was in the times of Soviet Union.

Among of famous Russian vodka brands the most popular in Soviet times was “Stolichnaya”. And it saves its popularity in modern Russia.

Soviet brands still popular in Russia – and more popular then exported ones. How to explain it? – Russian people remember of the best quality of those foods. People who lived in Soviet Union choose Soviet brands because of great nostalgia about Imperia that does not exist any more. Imperia does not exist, but its brands are alive nowadays and everybody who want to feel the taste of Soviet Russia can try its foods.

Russian national meal is the result of Russian people generation’s attempts to find optimal balance between different kinds of products with the aim to be healthy in Russian changeable and hard climate. To understand Russian meals specific in a logic way it is necessary to know that nature of Russia is alive and rich in summer and dead in winter. Due to it one the main dishes of Russian meals is its marinades and conservated products assortment. Delicious mushrooms and cucumbers, tomatoes and cabbages – all these meals you will find in menu of Russian restaurant in any country of the wourld. But for Russian people it is not unusual restaurant meals. For ancient Russian countryman vegetable conservation was the only way to live during long cold winter.

Speaking about Russian meal tradition it is impossible not to tell about large assortment of soups. Soup culture in Russian village began from simple “pohlebka” – soup made from any components the hostess could find at home. Also Russian tradition saves the way of cooking traditional cabbage soup which name in Russian sounds as “schi”. “Uha” – one more kind of soup in Russia. It is the soup of fishmen who cooked this dish in open air from the heads of the fish they had catched. Cookers in rich Rissian houses knew a lot of ways to prepare delicious soup with different kinds of expensive fish. Summer in Russia was the time of cold soups that saved all vitamins in its components.

Russian meals can not be imagined without different kinds of cereals. Their large assortment in Russian houses can be simply explained – and the explanation is in the climate of Russia. Seeds that were used for cooking cereals are simple to store during cold months of the year, so they were popular in Russia.

As for main dishes – meat always took its great part in Russian meals culture. Pork, beef, chicken – Russian village gave these sorts of meat for all the country.
Meat in Russia was compared with cereals, vegetables. History made some changes in traditional way of cooking in Russia. In the times on Peter the First Russia learned what potatoes are. And now potatoes play great role in Russian meals.

Russian strong beverages! All over the wourld people are surprised by strange ability of Russians to drink a lot of vodka. Vodka in Russia was one more way to keep warm during winter. It was the beverage of strong man. Women preferred the beverage which consists of vodka and honey, mixed in special way – “medovuha”. Also people prepared home-made strong beverage – “samogon”. This tradition is alive nowadays.

Non-alcogolic drinks in Russia – beverages made from berries and fruits – are still popular and a lot of hostess conservate them for winter.

At the end I would like to tell you about great role of bread in Russian meal tradition. Bread is unparticular part of every Russian dinner. And Russians, as it was hundreds years ago, still say: “Bread – everything‘s head”.