Buckwheat Kasha with Mushrooms russiancuisine Tue, 12/21/2021 - 11:50 Ingredients: 50 g (1 ¾ oz) dried mushrooms ¼ gal water 1.25 lb buckwheat 2 large onions ¾ lb fresh mushrooms Method: Grind the dried mushrooms into flour, bring 1 l water to boil, and put the ground dried mushrooms into the water.Stir well, and add buckwheat.Boil with small heating until the kasha is ready (grains are very soft).At the same time, grind the fresh mushrooms and onions, and stir-fry them with vegetable oil.Stir the buckwheat kasha and onion-mushrooms mix well, let sit for 5 minutes, and serve.Note:This dish ..read more

Potato-Squash Pancakes russiancuisine Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:41 Ingredients: 1 squash 6 potatoes 4 tbsp flour 1 onion 5 tbsp vegetable oil Salt and pepper on taste 1 egg – optional Method: Wash the squash and potatoes, then peel, and wash once more. Peel the onion, and grind it, or cut into small cubes. Grind the potatoes and squash together, mix all of the ingredients but the vegetable oil. Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil on a skillet, place the dough onto the skillet with a tablespoon, and cook for about 2-3 minutes per side with medium heating. Then, cover with a lid, turn heating to low, a ..read more

Smoked Chicken Salad nobilitycuisine Fri, 12/24/2021 - 20:12 Ingredients: 1 can green peas (or 1 lb frozen) 3 hardboiled eggs 1-2 smoked chicken breasts 1 bunch green onions Mayo and Soy sauce on taste Method: Boil the peas if necessary, and then cool them. Grate eggs. De-skin and de-bone, and cut the chicken breasts into medium cubes. Cut the onions into small pieces. Mix all ingredients, let sit for 10 minutes, and serve. Blog tags Salads Blog type Poultry Eggs Vegetables ..read more

Vegetable Mix Baked with Milk nobilitycuisine Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:45 Ingredients: 1 lb cauliflower 1 lb potatoes 0.5 lb turnip 0.5 lb string beans 0.5 lb carrots 1.5 cup milk (or almond milk, or soy milk) 3 tbsp margarine or butter Salt on taste Method: Cut the cauliflower into small parts. Peel the potatoes, turnip, and carrots, then wash, drain, and cut into medium cubes. Mix all vegetables together, sprinkle with salt, and stir. Cut the margarine (or butter) into cubes. Place the mix in a deep oven-safe dish, pour the milk over the vegetables, and add butter or margarine. Pre-heat ..read more

Pasta Nests with Carrots nobilitycuisine Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:39 Ingredients: 1 pack (1 lb) spaghetti 1 tsp vegetable oil 5 stalks parsley 2 onions 4 carrots 6 tbsp vegetable oil, or margarine 1 lemon juice Salt on taste Method: Peel the onions, and cut into very small cubes. Peel the carrots, and slice into thin slices, and then into very thin strips. Wash the parsley, drain, and cut very thinly. Stir-fry the onions until they turn transparent, then add carrots, and stir-fry together until the carrots become soft. Boil the spaghetti in salt water as per instructions, then drain. Sti ..read more

Millennium Old Russian Cuisine russiancuisine Tue, 09/28/2021 - 17:37 Is it really millennium old? Actually, nobody really knows. There are written documents covering about a thousand years of Russian history. Before that Western historical science has a sort of vacuum of facts describing what was going on there. For most Western historians it was a place populated by barbarians who were not worth any attention. Something like a big white spot on a map with an inscription, "Here the dragons live." The facts about the territory of Russia before the X century are vague and sometimes even more m ..read more

Treat Your Family Like Nobility The XVIII-XIX Centuries Cuisine of Old European Aristocratic Families nobilitycuisine Tue, 09/28/2021 - 17:30 What do the Queen of British Empire, Count de Talleyrand who negotiated keeping France as one country after Napoleon's defeat, and Russian aristocrat Count Alexander Stroganoff have in common? Their chef, the cook. The cuisine of aristocratic families across Europe was truly international. Whenever rich gourmets of XVIII or XIX century (or their cooks) invented something new and delicate, it spread across Europe like wildfire. Unless, of course, the coo ..read more

About this site eldar Sun, 09/26/2021 - 20:10 This site exists since 2002 and contained hundreds of recipes. Unfortunately, our original hosting provider broke us in 2020 and, what's worse, lost the site database with all recipes. So, we are working right now on restoring it manually from our archive.  ..read more