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.

For example, try to add to your every day menu some traditional Russian foods.
They are tasty, easy to cook and not expensive.
The most popular salad for Lent in Russia is cabbage salad. It’s ingredients are cabbage, carrots, also you can add apple. You can cook sour cabbage as an alternative.
Your Russian menu for Lent can include Russian cabbage soup and soup with mushrooms. These are amazing dishes and you will surely enjoy them.
Speaking about snackes, we cant help mentioning different picked vegetables. They are very popular in Russian during the Lent. Among of them pickled tomatoes, picked cucumbers and other dishes.
Russian ortodoxal church allows eating fish anly few days during the Lent. But if you are Roman you shoud know that it is allowed for you to eat sea products. You can enjoy calamari and different kinds of fish and caviar.

Take 1 kilogram of rye bread and cut it into pieces. Then put these pieces to electric stove and dry. Pound dried bread and fill up with 5 liters of boiling water. Wait for 6-8 hours and filter water, put in it 200 gram of sugar and 50 gram of dilute in 1 liter of water barm. Сover mix, in 12 hour fill bottle with kvass. Close bottles and let them stay in warm place for 24 hours. After that and can put bottles to the fridge and enjoy refreshing Russian kvass. Notice, kvass will have its best taste qualities in 4 days.
If you have no time to follow this recipe, use kvass concentrate to cook this beverage.
But of course, the easiest way to get kvass is to buy it. You can choose original taste free of any additional ingredients. Or try kvass containing berries or kvass with honey – it is really tasty and useful.

To cook shaslik you will need:

Fresh pork

Onions

Pepper

Lemon or glass of dry white wine

Salt and sugar

How to cook:

Take fresh pork with lard (600 grams for a person), cut it into pieces and put it into the deep dish. Cut and add onions (250 grams for 1 kilogram of meat). Then add juice of one lemon, salt, sugar, pepper. Leave this mix in place with room temperature for 4-5 hours.

Fry shashlik on open flame, using metal sticks.

Serve shashlik with lemons and fresh greenery. Spicy ketchup can be used as sauce.

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.

Potato salad Russians often name “olivie”. Of course, it is not traditional French salad which is famous all over the world. When Russians offer you olivie they mean potato salad which has boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, marinated cucumbers, fresh onion, tinned peas and meat or sausages as its components. This salad also includes mayonnaise.

Other Russian salad which also has the name of frensh dish in spite of the difference between Russian and French version of the salad – vinegret. It consists of boiled red beet and carrots, popatoes, onions, marinated cucumbers or sour cabbage. As the seasoning of the salad Russian use vinegar and vegetable oil.

Among every day meals of Russians you can find salads which unclude mainly one component as the basis. For example, it is “healthy” salad which is consists of cabbage, and red-beet salad. In spite of the simplicity of these dishes they are very useful and tasty.

Also in Russia you can try “Primorsky” salad, herring and potato salad and others.

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.
As a customary Russians drink vodka only in the evening and during different parties. But sometimes they can drink some vodka for dinner or lunch. It is good to drink 50 gramms of vodka before you start eating traditional Russian red-beet soup. This combination is warms and relaxes you.

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!

Of course, frozing meals was possible only in winter, because no refrigerators were invented then.

The most popular frozen Russians foods – pelmeni (ravioli). It is very tasty dish made of meat covered with unleavened dough.

Nowadays Russian pelmeni can be bought in every shop in this country. But a lot of hostesses continue to cook them at home, because Russians think, that the most tasty pelmeni are hand made.

Frozen pelmeni are very easy to cook. It is nessesary to put them to salted boiling water and wait them to be ready. Russians prefer to eat pelmeni with sour cream.

Another kind of frozen food that is popular in Russia is vareniki. The main difference of pelmeni and vareniki – their fillings. Vareniki have vegetables or berries inside them.

In Russian the most popular vareniki fillings are popatoes and cherry.

Pelmeni and vareniki are traditionally frozen foods.

But today, when every shop and supermarket has refrigerators, Russian companies begin to froze different foods. Among of them pies, thin pankes with filling and some other popular meals.

Russian meals has meat as its main component. I think Russia is all like big piece of meat. Extremal weather, serious people… Siberians need to have power to live almost all year long in winter, so people in Siberia eat a lot of meat. In spite of eating a lot of meat, Russian have natural healthy diet. They eat meat with vegetables and never eat a lot, as in America people do.

Man from Great Britain:

In Russia I like their dairy products. They are all very tasty and useful. But the most interesting Russian milk food is milk soup. Nowhere in the world I met this dish! I tried to cook milk soup at home but could not. But sometimes it seems to me that Russians never heard about thing we name “healthy food”. They add mayonese to every dish they eat. It is so many calories there!

Woman from France:
Meals we buy in France every day in Russia are very expensive. Good cheese, meat can be bought only in elite supermarkets. But Russia has the tastiest fish in the world. In Siberia I tried wonderful salmon – you will not find such fresh fish nowhere in the world! In France sea products are expensive and not every man can buy them.

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.