altiva Posted November 15, 2012 #1 Share Posted November 15, 2012 Hi people. Have you ever tried Ukrainian cuisine? Where did you try it? What dishes did you eat? Did you like it or not? Thank you for your answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted November 15, 2012 Author #2 Share Posted November 15, 2012 And if you have never tried it, would you like to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romrai Posted November 19, 2012 #3 Share Posted November 19, 2012 Unfortunately not on a cruise. brought up on them and still cook them myself (only because mom isn't here) my usual are. Perogies, petiheh(sp?) potato dumplings with/ cottage cheese, cheddar, onions, bacon, plums. wrapped in dough. boiled and/or fried in butter. served with butter and onions or in the case of plums, brown sugar. holobski/cabbage rolls. my favorite are with bacon and onion, (no ground beef) and rice. kobassa/garlic sausage....speaks for itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookish Angel Posted November 19, 2012 #4 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I love the potato and onion ones. Cabbage rolls are wonderful, too. I don't eat beef anymore but the vegetarian ones with just the sauce and rice are so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted November 19, 2012 Author #5 Share Posted November 19, 2012 Hi people, thank you for your replies, I appreciate them a lot! The dumpings wrapped in dough are called varenyki. There are main course varenyki (with potatoes, cabbage, meat) and the desert variety (with cherries an cottage cheese), sweet ones. The cabbage rolls are holubtsi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted January 27, 2013 Author #6 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Ukrainian cuisine is the best in the world. It consist of what people call "healthy food". At the same time, it's not tasteless cardboard-like chew. It's extremely tasty, and you can eat it with clear conscience, knowing that it's all good for you. It's not for nothing, in Ukraine, when you start eating, people say "For your health" (eat to improve your health). Ukrainian food is the world's answer for the fusion of healthy and tasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellyfronk Posted February 6, 2013 #7 Share Posted February 6, 2013 My daughter in law is Ukranian. She makes a lot of dishes with potatoes, soups (always with potatoes), pulmeni (meat dumplings/sour cream), buckwheat (but calls it Kashka, with a K), and also eats from the russian/ukranian stores and restaurants, gizzard stew, tongue, lots of different types of sausages, and smoked cheeses. My son went to the Ukraine with her last year and tried all sorts of new things. However, what is very common is that foods grown in the summer are canned for all winter use, so they would not have strawberry preserves till winter, and some vegetables that were canned. Generally, the Ukranians use all parts of the animal and parts that Americans would normally toss in the garbage are eaten regularly i.e. pig's ear, cartiledge, tongue gizzards etc. We have learned to eat some new dishes and happily give her parts that we don't normally eat too! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted February 24, 2013 Author #8 Share Posted February 24, 2013 There are many types of Ukrainian bread. There is palyanytsya, kolach, korovai. I will post it. Now, I have a photo of korovai - this is a bread, specially made for weddings. The flowers on the bread, they are called "cones" (like cones from a pine). The cones are very crunchy, and they are salty. They give them to children to eat. They are very yummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 1, 2013 Author #9 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Unfortunately not on a cruise. brought up on them and still cook them myself (only because mom isn't here) my usual are. Perogies, petiheh(sp?) potato dumplings with/ cottage cheese, cheddar, onions, bacon, plums. wrapped in dough. boiled and/or fried in butter. served with butter and onions or in the case of plums, brown sugar. holobski/cabbage rolls. my favorite are with bacon and onion, (no ground beef) and rice. kobassa/garlic sausage....speaks for itself. hi Romrai, pyrogy are pies. Like apple pie, cherry pie. One - pyrig, many - pyrogy. Then there are litle pies, called pyrizhky. And there are varenyky. They can be filled with anything - meat, potatoes, cheese, plumps, cherries, cabbage and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 1, 2013 Author #10 Share Posted March 1, 2013 My daughter in law is Ukranian. She makes a lot of dishes with potatoes, soups (always with potatoes), pulmeni (meat dumplings/sour cream), buckwheat (but calls it Kashka, with a K), and also eats from the russian/ukranian stores and restaurants, gizzard stew, tongue, lots of different types of sausages, and smoked cheeses. My son went to the Ukraine with her last year and tried all sorts of new things. However, what is very common is that foods grown in the summer are canned for all winter use, so they would not have strawberry preserves till winter, and some vegetables that were canned. Generally, the Ukranians use all parts of the animal and parts that Americans would normally toss in the garbage are eaten regularly i.e. pig's ear, cartiledge, tongue gizzards etc. We have learned to eat some new dishes and happily give her parts that we don't normally eat too! :) Great answer, Shelly, sounds like your daughter in law is ethnic Russian from Ukraine, because pelmeni are definitely Russian food. Ukrainians do love making preserves, from fruit and vegetables, and eat them in winter: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 3, 2013 Author #11 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Spring arrived. The Ukrainian traditional soup is called borsch. Foreign people frequently called the borsch - a soup with beet roots. I am always amazed, because there is no more than one spoon full of beet roots in the whole soup. Rather, I would have called it a "tomato soup". There are different kinds of borsch. There is borsch, borsch with mushrooms, borsch with a carp, borsch with pampushki. In spring, Ukrainian people make green borsch. The green borsch is made from sorrel. It has a light taste. It tastes like spring. In Ukraine, they say "spring freshness came to your table". This is a photo of a green borsch in a restaurant. The restaurant bakes the bread. Then, they take the middle of the bread out. They pour the borsch inside the bread. Then, you can eat it! You eat the bread also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 3, 2013 Author #12 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Anybody hungry yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 3, 2013 Author #13 Share Posted March 3, 2013 More Ukrainian preserves... The first person to guess what it is receives one jar! :-))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 11, 2013 Author #14 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Today is a start of Maslenytsya in Ukraine. It's the last week before the great Easter fast, when people are not supposed to eat dairy, fish and meat. Many Ukrainian restaurants will have a fast menu added to accommodate people who are fasting. Maslenytsya means "buttery". You are supposed to stuff yourself with pancakes this week. And they are supposed to be fried on real butter. Ukrainians love butter and add it to many dishes. Vareniky (dumplings) must "swim" in butter, for example. Here is a Ukrainian woman, making butter at home. You can buy real home made butter on farmer's markets. Ukrainian pancakes are called nalysnyky. It's pancakes, stuffed with rice, meat, buckwheat, berries, cheese (the cheese ones are sweet, they add sugar and raisins to them). These are the ones with cheese. You eat them with sour cream. Besides pancakes, people eat different sausages, salo (lard), meat, paltry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 11, 2013 Author #15 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Nalysnyky with raspberries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 22, 2013 Author #16 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Today is a holiday in Ukraine. It's called "Forty sainted martyrs". It's dedicated to the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebastia. Forty saint martyrs were forty Christian warriors. They served in the army under Roman emperor Licinius. They were killed because they refused to perform Roman pagan rituals. But, in fact, it's a very old Ukrainian holiday, which comes from the pre-Christian times. When Ukraine was christened,the church tried to incorporate the old pagan holidays into Christian rituals. This day, people asked the spring to come, and to come quickly. They sang special songs, and danced. They also made buns or cookies, shaped like birds. They took the pastry outside, and paraded it throughout. People believed, back then, that the spring came on the wings of the birds. So, they reasoned: if we showed the baked birds outside, the real birds would see it and they would bring the spring quicker. After the ritual, children were given these cookies to play with, and eventually, to eat. "Forty" is pronounced "sorok" in Ukrainian language. It sounds similar to the word "magpie". So, the holiday is called also "magpies". Also, "larks", "birds", "little storks". It's a holiday about the birds, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altiva Posted March 31, 2013 Author #17 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Happy Easter, people. Here are some pyskany for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number5 Posted April 1, 2013 #18 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Nalysnyky with raspberries looks very tasty ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvetwater Posted May 5, 2013 #19 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I can't add much more than already said apart from perogi being divine, esp in a good broth. Also, make sure you munch on lots of cheese and cured meats as they are of a better quality in these parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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