1. Russian Food

2. Russian Common Foods Hvorost, fried pastries

3. Blini Similar to pancakes Served with jam, cheese, onions, or chocolate

4. Kholodets

5. Antonovka Apples

6. UNIQUE FOODS UNIQUE FOODS

7. Borscht Beet soup full of meat and vegetables Usually topped with sour cream

8. Pelmeni Pastry Dumplings with Meat Balls Can be served alone...... or can be served with butter, sour cream, or soup broth.

9. Pirozhki Pastries with meat, cheese, potatoes, and cabbage.

10. Caviar

11. MEALTIME CUSTOMS

12. Kashka

13. Obed (Lunch) Most important meal of the day Begins with salad

14. Uzhin (Dinner) The smallest meal of the day Consists of small Zakuskas (Appetizers) Zakuskas consists usually of fresh fruit and vegetables and/or bread. Hot tea or Vodka is served.

15. Famous Dishes Chai Sharlotka (apple cake)

16. Cooking Equipment Pech Stove Russian Wooden Carved Spoons Shashlik – Shish Kebabs Measuring Matroyshkas

17. This pig is usually made on special occasions like holidays and birthday parties. They take the whole head of a pig and then stuff it with sweet meats and then make nice treats on the side.

18. Count Paul Stroganoff

19. Origin of Beef Stroganoff Beef stroganoff is a dish consisting of strips of lean beef sautéed and served in a sour-cream sauce with onions and mushrooms. The recipe, which is of Russian origin, has been known since the eighteenth century, but its name appears to come from County Paul Stroganoff, a nineteenth-century Russian diplomat. Legend has it that when he was stationed in deepest Siberia, his chef discovered that the beef was frozen so solid that it could only be coped with by cutting it into very thin.