Ukrainian food for Christmas. Ideas please.

[oilandwater]

Hi,
We have a guest lunching with us on Boxing day who is from the Ukraine and I want make her something special. I have read about honey bread, but is there anything else I could make. We will be eating a traditional roast beef dinner, but I thought something extra from her Country would be nice.
Any ideas very gratefully received.
Thank you in advance.

[Mobile Chicane]

Whatever you make it will never be as good as her mother's!

Try here: http://www.foodukraine.com/

Edited by Mobile Chicane on Monday 5th December 20:33

[oilandwater]

Mobile Chicane said:

Whatever you make it will never be as good as her mother's!

Try here: http://www.russianfoods.com/recipes/view/default.a...

Hrmm, never thought about that. Thank you, I will look for something simple to cook.

[Mobile Chicane]

I edited it as I found a more specific link (although I haven't tried any of the recipes from it).

Russian food was in my bookmark list. Try the pickles.

[oilandwater]

ooh thank you.

Cant find the pickles.

[Chicharito]

Carp with potato salad and sauerkraut, allegedly.

Sounds lovely.

[Mobile Chicane]

Here's another good one, with step-by-step instructions.

Pelmeni are eaten all over Eastern Europe and are straightforward (if a bit fiddly) to make.

I'd add some chopped wild mushrooms in the filling for extra oomph. Serve with sour cream and a dusting of paprika or snipped chives on top.

[oilandwater]

Mobile Chicane said:

Here's another good one, with step-by-step instructions.

Pelmeni are eaten all over Eastern Europe and are straightforward (if a bit fiddly) to make.

I'd add some chopped wild mushrooms in the filling for extra oomph. Serve with sour cream and a dusting of paprika or snipped chives on top.

Yes I could manage that I'm sure. Thank you.

[Hoover.]

Fussy bunch them lot....... good luck

[Hoover.]

Fussy bunch them lot....... good luck

[Slyjoe]

I think they eat Swan.
HTH

[Mobile Chicane]

Slyjoe said:

I think they eat Swan.
HTH

Har har.

Can you not make your (frankly racist) comments somewhere else?

[Chicharito]

Mobile Chicane said:

Har har.

Can you not make your (frankly racist) comments somewhere else?

Point of order.

Ukrainians aren't a race - they belong to the same race as the rest of us white Europeans.

[Mobile Chicane]

Chicharito said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Har har.

Can you not make your (frankly racist) comments somewhere else?

Point of order.

Ukrainians aren't a race - they belong to the same race as the rest of us white Europeans.

The sentiment's the same, despite the inadequacies of the English language.

[Chicharito]

Mobile Chicane said:

The sentiment's the same, despite the inadequacies of the English language.

Xenophobic may have been a better word. Although, it was a vaguely amusing, throw-away comment, so hardly worthy of criticism.

[Slyjoe]

Mobile Chicane said:

Har har.

Can you not make your (frankly racist) comments somewhere else?

Uptight tt - it wasn't meant to be racist at all - just a mildly amusing quip, that took you one second to read, 20 to be offened on someone elses behalf, and another twenty to mash the keyboard in disgust.

I assume you work for the "Just in case anyone's offended" department at the council.

Anyway Eastern Europeans do eat stuff we consider odd >> http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4552471.Fishery_b...

and swans - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-5603545...

Also - I don't have any friends who have eaten a swan - however in this thread >> http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Mobile Chicane said:

I know someone (a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge) who has eaten swan.

Apparently it's not that nice: tough and 'fishy' tasting.

Care to explain?

I'm not xenophobic either really - it was as I said a PH quip.........

Edited by Slyjoe on Monday 5th December 23:49

[Mobile Chicane]

Chicharito said:

Mobile Chicane said:

The sentiment's the same, despite the inadequacies of the English language.

Xenophobic may have been a better word. Although, it was a vaguely amusing, throw-away comment, so hardly worthy of criticism.

Sorry bro. Reading on my BlackBerry, I thought you were the same person who'd made the slur.

I wholeheartedly apologise.

[Slyjoe]

MC - what do you have against Scousers, are you suggesting that anyone from Liverpool is a thief attracted to shiny things?

Mobile Chicane said:

Pferdestarke said:

Magpies on the other hand...

Horrid creatures. The Scousers of the bird world...

To the OP, sorry for the thread hijack, but someone on the internet is wrong.
Still it gave it a bit more bumpage.

[Mobile Chicane]

Slyjoe said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Har har.

Can you not make your (frankly racist) comments somewhere else?

Uptight tt - it wasn't meant to be racist at all - just a mildly amusing quip, that took you one second to read, 20 to be offened on someone elses behalf, and another twenty to mash the keyboard in disgust.

I assume you work for the "Just in case anyone's offended" department at the council.

Anyway Eastern Europeans do eat stuff we consider odd >> http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4552471.Fishery_b...

and swans - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-5603545...

Also - I don't have any friends who have eaten a swan - however in this thread >> http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Mobile Chicane said:

I know someone (a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge) who has eaten swan.

Apparently it's not that nice: tough and 'fishy' tasting.

Care to explain?

I'm not xenophobic either really - it was as I said a PH quip.........

Edited by Slyjoe on Monday 5th December 23:49

:grouphug:

Mute swans are 'owned' by the Crown, and only certain people (such as the fellows of St John's College) are 'allowed' to eat them.

[Slyjoe]

Mobile Chicane said:

Mute swans are 'owned' by the Crown, and only certain people (such as the fellows of St John's College) are 'allowed' to eat them.

I really didn't know that thank you.
PH is actually the best seat of learning in the UK.