Windows to Russia

A popular Russian/Georgian/Ukraine food that most likely started in Georgia. The Chebureki consist of a thin layer of dough and a ground meat filling, then deep-fried in a skillet of real butter. I call them a meat filled turnover as they are made the same, except the filling is meat and sometimes cheese, instead of […]

I Decry Minibuses in Russia… I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and thinking about one of my articles from many years ago.  The article was having issues and it was time to revamp it.It is a subject that makes my blood boil as I drive around Moscow. This article is about the real […]

Big Mac price: I have found it interesting and I have also found it very important. The price of a Big Mac in Russia is much less than what you will pay in America. Now why is that? The burger is exactly the same. I mean exactly the same and having been a regional manager […]

The Russian Krendl Bread is a bread that is not exactly easy to make and that puts off the doers, so the eaters never get this bread very often. Russians serve this at the holidays and during the other religious times. It is rich and delicious… Lets make a Russian Krendl and I think that […]

I wrote this post and then hesitated a few days. I decided to post it anyway! The reason I hesitated was because years ago, Ukraine blocked my website, when I wrote about interesting happenings there. It took me two years (many e-mails and a lot of work) to get my site unblocked in Ukraine and […]

Interesting facts about the monastery: 1. The monastery was begun around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Boris Godunov… 2. In 1613, it was announced that Mikhail Romanov, who had been in this monastery at that time, would be the new Russian tsar… 3. The Ipatiev Monastery […]

This recipe is one of my favorites. It is not one that I can make in Russia very easily, because we do not have Russian style dressing in Russia. You know that famous Russian, Catalina dressing that is yummy on salads. I was always amazed that we have a Russian dressing and Russians are like, […]

I have reached a saturation point on the ridiculous rhetoric coming from the west about the Winter Olympics in Russia. For years it has been hardly tolerable, but now it has reached a level of stupidity that even the west should be embarrassed about. The anti-Olympic propaganda is totally out of control… As Sveta says, […]