Draniki

Traditional dishes from Belarus remain popular. And this is the most popular one,  I think . 

 So, DRANIKI

Ingredients: 6 potatoes,1 egg, 2 table spoons flour, 1 onion, salt, pepper, oil

 
Peel, wash and grate the potatoes.Peel and chop the onion. Mix potatoes and onion.
Add the egg, flour and salt, and stir well until it become combined.

 Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and add potato mixture with a table spoon in the form of small flat cakes. Fry draniki on one side for about 2–3 minutes until it has a golden brown crust. Then turn the draniki over and fry for a further 1–2 minutes.

Serve with  sour cream.

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SOUPS

It is v ery important dishes. We eat it every day, usually at dinner.Soups can be cold ( cholodnik, okroshka – they are very popular in summer) and hot (borshch, shchi). Most Slavs soups are based on a next key ingredients: beets, cabbage, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, and stock of meat or bone, and are usually topped with a dollop of sour cream.

CHOLODNIK WITH SORREL
1.5 l water, 300 g sorrel, 2 cucumbers, 120 g green onion, 2 eggs, 3 tblsps sour cream, salt.
Sort the sorrel, shred, boil in salted water and cool. Add fresh cucumbers cut up fine, hard-boiled eggs, green onion rubbed together with salt. Before serving season with sour cream and sprinkle with minced dill.

My favorite home recipes

I live in Belarus and I like Belarusian cuisine very much. It has many original dishes go back to early times for example: draniki, babka, holodnik, zatirka, machanka. But today a lot of our people cooks they favorite dishes from Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Lithuanians, Letts cuisines at home and I think that it is right to say about Slavs Cuisine.So there you will find many of my favorite home recipes from Slavs Cuisine. I hope you like it.

I love berry season!!!!!

Do you like berries? I love them! I am very pleased that the beginning of berry season!!!!

Belarus is rich in berries. In the woods a lot of blueberries, strawberries, raspberries. A little later came cranberries and cranberry.

In private gardens already finished strawberry fruit, but ripe raspberry, currant and cherry.

I love berries, and is unlikely to be able to tell which of them is the favorite. We eats them with sugar and milk, with ice cream, make cocktails, compotes cook. And that's not all.

Look what I brought today. Nyam-Nyam.

Chamber music

Do you like music? No.. Do you like chamber music?
There is a unique acoustics in The Sophia Cathedral.The oldest Czech firm “Riger Kloss» designed and established an organ and the concert hall of chamber music was open there in 1983.
So, velcome ! The concert of organ music takes place every weekend there. You will so lucky if visit Polotsk in November -many composers, musicants and soloists from different countries arrive in Polotsk and take part in the great festival called “The Bells of Sophia“.

You can see there

Ancient Laying

Coins from Kozyanki hidden treasure

Miniatures

A Model of Sophia cathedral ( 11 century)

Beautiful interior
and many other things....