Salad Dniester and Bottle of White Wine at Dacha

 Salad Dniester, photo from last summer

Tossed together real quick

So here it is - Dniester salad from Ukraine, but tasty and cheap

chopped (shredded) white cabbage, perhaps lightly crushed
canned green peas
chopped semi-smoked sausage, like Krakow sausage, or boiled-smoked sausage
salt, pepper to taste
dressing - mayonnaise, 

toss

voila 

Official description from Wikipedia

Dniester is a salad made from shredded white cabbage, salted and lightly crushed, sliced ​​semi-smoked sausage, canned peas and mayonnaise.

According to legend, the Dniester salad was invented in the 1960s by the chef of the Chernivtsi restaurant Dnister, located on Olha Kobylyanska ul , No. 7. Dniester became the restaurant's signature salad, as well as a popular recipe for home cooking due to its taste, ease of preparation, and inexpensive ingredients. Later, the salad allegedly won a prize at the All-Union Culinary Competition in Moscow.

In addition to the main ingredients, the salad is prepared with the addition of onions, herbs, sugar, and decorated with boiled eggs on top.

 

 

 

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Lunched on some Chebureki

You will no doubt be pleased to know that a week or so ago - mid-February 2024 I think it was - I lunched in old Soviet style on some Chebureki though had wanted to have three plates of house Pelmenis - cooked, in broth, and fried - but they were off the menu for some reason, so had to settle for the Chebureki.

The place was the SSSR Chebureki house on the Arbat in Moscow.

This is not too special; usually I could do much better as regards eating out but, for the absence of the Pelmenis on the menu, ordered three Chebureki but was not particularly impressed as I know of a place or two where they are much better.

 

Also, had a dressed herring salad, aka "herring under a fur coat", "furred herring", a very small portion, I am afraid, and nothing too remarkable though like this dish as it's one of my favorites.

Washed down with a 0.5l of kvass.

But there was live music so got things going by ordering a song sung to self for 300 rubles only.

Soviet-themed interior.

Adjacent vistas.

Eternal peace and quiet will soon be brought to Ewerope and then to the United Estates and will reign supreme thereafter. Rest assured I am doing my little part in this great endeavor.

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Sunday's Walk May 14, 2023

Here is Sunday's walk about town, nothing particular to do, just gazing around, warm and sunny, about twentyish Celsius. 

Tulips are out in force, it's their time of year.

Red Army theater.

Vista on Moscow's Grand Mosque

Building.

Grand Mosque

First lunch

Fruit salad and coffee

Lots of coconut shavings.

Finished it, there was no soup de jour though.

Chestnut in bloom too.

Back to the theater.

Canteen Lunch

In My Restaurants series where I investigate, and report on, the joys of eating out here in Russia, here is a report of another lunch that was had at a kind of "workers' canteen" in a small town near Moscow.

What I had was a plate of cabbage soup, a ham salad with cheese, tomato juice, a "compote" drink and for the main dish, beef tongue with sour cream sauce and a side of some macaroni.

And here we have meatballs, cabbage salad, the rest is the same.

Very nutritiously satisfying and tasty, although the tongue could be warmer.

Beef tongue is a meat sub-product which is not to everyone's taste however its meat is very healthy on account of vitamins and minerals as well as healthy oils contained in it. 

Definitely much healthier than red meat.

Interiors.

300 rubles per person.

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