Taste of Eastern Europe - Salted Pork

French have lardone, Italians - Lardo, well Russian, Ukrainians and Belorussians - Salo. It's cured salted pork

Usually eaten with bread of your choice , some mustard (or just plain)

Cod with shrimp

1 big file of cod

1/4 stick of celery

1 bell pepper

1/4 of onion

10-15 shrimps

oil for frying

Salt, pepper to taste

Dice the pepper, celery onion and fry in the pan, remove, we will add all of it later

Put the cod in the pan , when 1st side is done, turn the fish and add the shrimp and the fries vegetables. Remove the Cod , mix well the vegetables and shrimp. When shrimp is cooked, pour the shrimp - vegetable mixture over the cod

Serve.  

Рецепт

1 большое филе трески

1/4 палки сельдерея

1/4 головки лука

1 болгарский перец

10-15 креветок

Растительное масло для жарки

Соль, чёрный перец

Нарезаки мелко сельдерей  и перец и легко прижариваем в сковороде, вынимаем ( добавим обратно в конце)

Нарезаем филе на 3-4 кусочка и жарим, как только зажарится одно сторона, переворачиваем и добовляем креветки и зажареный перец с сельдереем.

Когда креветки готовы, то блюдо готово.

Blackened buffalo steak

‎Buffalo ‎meat‬ is unbelievably lean and tasty, but because it is lean, it makes it tricky to cook. I prefer to cook it with Cajun ( creole ) ‪spice‬ mixes. Cover it with olive oil, sprinkle the spices and cook on hot grill until spices darken. 

It's called ‪ ‎blackened‬ style, when outside is a little bit burned on purpose, but the inside is nearly cooked. In this case it works. The burned spice mixture is actually very aromatic good luck

Fusion of American and Soviet iconic foods. I call this Cold War Hot dog :-)

Its a hot dog or bratwurst  on a bun or a baguette with mustard, topped with Russian or Ukrainian Salad called Vinigret (  Russian style pickled cabbage slaw , with potatoes, pickles, onion, red bean and beets)

Fast cajun pasta sauce

1 pound of ground beef

1 small onion (chopped)

1 bell pepper (chopped)

1 stick of celery  (chopped)

1-2 cloves of garlic

2-3 leafs of thyme

vegetable oil

pinch of cayenne pepper

salt and black pepper

1/2 cup of water or chicken broth



Fry the bell pepper, onion and celery, add chopped garlic and the beef ground, cook until slightly brown, add water (broth) salt, black  pepper, cayenne. Cook until desired thickness add the fresh thyme leafs in the end


Serve over pasta of your choice.

Enjoy!

Base for tripe stew or soup

1 kg (about 2 pounds) of  beef honeycomb tripe
1 1/2 pound beef with bone ( can  be substituted with 1 pound of beef bones)
2 sticks of celery
1 large onion
2 carrots
laurel leaf
black pepper peppercorns

2 cooking pans needed
1 for the tripe
1 for the beef with vegetables


Put beef with celery, peeled onion, carrot in cold water.
Cook it as a regular beef soup, with laurel leafs and peppercorns

Put cleaned tripe into a pan, cover with water and boil until undesired odor is gone..

Then trow away the water, take the tripe and put it together with the beef.

Cook until done. It is about 5 hours, sometimes even more. Remove the beef with the bone when its done. The timing is up to you. 1.5 or 2 hrs.  

After tripe is done, remove it from the broth, Remove the cooked vegetables, Strain the broth.

Tripe, beef pieces and the broth are the base for your next dish.

In couple of days, I will write about basic Polish Flijaki soup (stew)

Vegetarian Borsch

Really easy:


Beets

Bell peppers

Cabbage

onion

carrot

potatoes

salt

pepper

laurel leaf

water


a little bit of oil



Cut the vegetables to small pieces


Put them all, except the cabbage and potatoes  in a pan, add the oil salt and a litle bit of water

Stew  until almost soft

Add hot water, add cabbage and potatoes. boil until done.

Add seasoning in the end

Serve with sour cream

Red King Crab

Simplicity

Steam
Melted Butter
Lemon

Enjoy

Fast beer plate : Baked Frankfurters with cheese and pan fried shrimp

The amount per wight of frankfurters and cheese is about 3:1

Slice the frankfurters and put the cheese there. Put in the pre- heated  oven 375.F

While the frankfurters are baking, clean the shrimp and fry it in olive or vegetable oil with a herb mix of your choice ( I prefer Cajun or Creole)

When both are done, just put on the plate together and serve

Lemon pepper chicken wings

Like chicken with lemon?
Then, here is one great dish for you.

It's easy to prepare

Dust your chicken wings with Lemon Pepper seasoning and salt

Sprinkle with vegetable or canola oil 

Put in preheated to 375 F oven.

Cook until brown. I cooked them until crispy

Enjoy!

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