Food for thought. Blog 1 🍗

Hey ya'll. To get my blog rolling I wanted to first talk about my favorite topic in the entire world; food. Yes, mouth watering, tasteful, scrumptious food. Anywhere from an Italian dish full of linguine and cajun shrimp to a more traditional Indian cuisine. For me food isn't just food, it's a culture. Every culture has it's own recipe. Without food their wouldn't be human, animals, or man kind. So to me food isn't just your regular cup of noodle soup, it's a home cooked meal you smell when you first enter your house hold. I wanted to share with you guys my culture for food first. I come from a Russian background so that mean's bliny, caviar, shashlic, golobsy, and pelmeni on a daily. These five traditional Russian dishes are very delicious despite their foreign names. The first food I will be talking about would be the bliny. Bliny is an extremely simple dish. it's basically just thin crispy pancakes. In my tradition, we usually just soak them in honey which gives them a sweet tender taste. Usually I go over board and sprinkle them with light cinnamon, which I totally recommend for everyone to try. My next dish is caviar. Caviar is also simple which is considered more to be a side dish. Caviar is basically just fish eggs. We use caviar for pretty much anything including on top of toast. Golobsy is more complex to cook. It's made out of cabbage as well as leaves wrapped around any fillings that you can choose from. My family fills golobsy with beef  and vegetables, however, you can choose any ingredient of your own choice. It's a little bit hard to make, but it's so worth the struggle! Shashlic is the most common dish in the Russian culture. It's not only a Russian food, but many middle eastern countries do enjoy eating this dish. In america it's called chicken on a stick, but in Russia we call it shashlic. Lastly, my favorite dish of all, pelmeni. They are the best dumplings you'll ever get your hands on. Pelmeni is dough with meat inside. What makes our dumplings different is the sour cream we mix the pelmeni with. So again, these five Russian cuisines are definitely something to look into and cook with your families! On my next blog I will be focusing on other different cultural foods as well as my love for fashion and why I chose my future career. My purpose of my blogs are to not only share with you my interests, but to also give you guys a taste of Gabby's world. Thanks for reading!