From Mother Russia with Love: Kulich and Paskha
Because Russian Orthodox Easter falls on the same day this year (2010) as the Western Easter, it seems appropriate to …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
From Mother Russia with Love: The Domostroi
Cabbage soup and gruel are our food. (Shchi da kasha, pishche nashe.) ~~Russian peasant proverb Trying to ferret out tidbits …
Idylls of Cuisine, #56
[A photograph, or two, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie
The kulebyaka should be appetizing, shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin. ~~ Anton Chekov, “The Siren” Fish dishes …
From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent
One of her greatest pleasures in summer was the very Russian sport of hodit’ po gribi (looking for mushrooms). Fried …
From Mother Russia with Love: A Monster of a Stove and Tolokno
You can’t cook porridge with a fool. ~~ Russian Proverb ~~ An example of Russian Lenten food, tolokno or oat …
From Mother Russia with Love: Great Lent, the Beginning
Many years ago, a high school history teacher of mine asked our class to write down everything we knew about …
Idylls of Cuisine, #55
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 2
Continuing our Lenten foray through fish cookery in Asia …
Traditional, “Authentic” St. Patrick’s Day Food
He’s a desperate big, little Erin go brah; He will pardon our follies and promise us joy, By the mass, …
