Dinner Bell - What Are You Eating Today?

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, no I haven't tried Salo. But when I was in Moscow I loved the little dumplings that you got in the local cafes and bars, they were delicious. Do you have a recipe for them. I also went into a Georgian Restaurant in Moscow and the food was brilliant as well. I ate this lamb casserole that was truly amazing, it just melted in the mouth.
Scott:hello:

 

[Linda]

Scott, Salo is a salted pork fat which makes Russians high :rolleyes:
Last time I visited MOscow in 2005, my friend/s friend from the village killed a pig, so I bought a kilo of Salo, and my dad and me ate it with Russian black bread every day... I gained 7 pounds!:wink: During the same trip, I was volunteering in the local animal shelter, and one of the cat attendants, a lady in her 70s, invited me to stay in her house overnight. For a dinner she offered a Borsch. To say it was delicious means to say nothing... (Where is a smile with a huge spoon?) She had 16 cats lining in her apartment, so while I was eating, she was talking to the cats:
-Look, my kitties. This poor hungry thing is an American. Americans are always hungry, since they don't eat good food. They only eat burgers...
:clap:
The dumplings your are talking about are called Pelmeni. I've never seen anyone who does not like it!

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, how do you make Pelmeni, I'd love to try and make them myself.
Scott:hello:

 

[Linda]

Well, I became pretty laisy here, so I buy the dough instead of making it myself :) usually the dough includes flour and water and should be thick enough to make a firm sheet when you work it with Skalka (a stick to roll the dough and a weapon against the disobedient husband :) ). When the dough is ready, prepare the stuffing. I take ground beef mixed with gorund pork (2/1ratio). Then add a little bread soaked in milk. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Put a sheet of dough on the firm surface. Take a glass or a cup. Using the edge of the glass of a sup, cut the round pieces form the dough. On each piece, put the stuffing, and stick the edges of the dough together (this is a hard part: they often fall apart). When the Pelmeni are ready, you can eaither cook them immediatelly, or store in the freezer, with some four on them.
To cook: but pelmeni to the boiling water. They sould go to the bottom. Stir from time to time carefully. When they are floating, let them about 5 minutes, and then take out, put on the plate, and enjoy. We use ground black pepper with it, but some people prefer to dip it in vinegar, or aet with Mayo.
Have a good appetite!

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Linda, can you make sweet pelmeni as well. With apples in them or berries.
Scott

 

[Linda]

Scott, sweet pelmeni are called "Vareniki"! :wink:
Yes, of course, I can make them. You just add sugar to the dough, and prepare stuffing as follows:
A pound of cottage cheese, a half-cup of flour, a cup of sugar, and an egg mix well
Or
Sour cherries, without seeds, mixed with sugar to your taste
Then, follow the procedure as with regular Pelmeni.
Another recepi is called Laisy Vareniki. You simple mix cottage cheese, flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, and raisin to get firm dough as sweet as you like it. Then you make small balls of it, throw in in boilind water, wait for them to float, and take out.
Have a good appetite!

 

[Gradon]

I didn't eat so well today. Had a banana around noon, then ate McDonald's around 5, then ate appertizers at a friend's house tonight. :dont-know

 

[Terry]

Whatever it is it will be too much too fattening, yatta, yatta

 

[Marlene]

After I go to the grocery store (which means I have to actually get out of my PJ's, shower, get dressed, etc. LOL) dinner tonight is going to be cream of chicken and wild rice soup with French baguettes on the side. Simple and good...just the way I like it.

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Well tonight I had a large Bacon Double Cheese Burger, it was brill. Haven't had one for ages.
Scott

 

[Portabella]

Today we are having broiled fish and Cottage fries. However, I am hungry now, so I am going to have some asparagus fries to hold me out. Yum.

 

[Linda]

Not a fan of junk food, but ate a large pizza just now...