A good post to read at 23:20 by a person desperately fighting with late meals:)))) Now I'll have to grab all my will not to go hunting to the kitchen:) What I can say for sure - Russians eat breakfast out much more seldom than Americans. Even on week-ends. Most Russians have breakfast at home. The menu differs a lot, depending on age, sex, working style, day of the week and who knows what else. Still, very popular are: various sandwiches (to be precise, typical Russian version of a sandwich is one-sided: bread and anything on it), omelette, fried eggs, sausages, corn flakes or muesli with milk, pancakes (on week-ends mostly), cottage cheese, or just tea or coffee with some pastry. French toasts do all right, though we don'call them so. Typical Russian breakfast dish is "kasha" (I'm not sure if porridge is the right translation), it's especially popular for children. It can be cooked of any cereal (oats, rice, wheat and some others I bet you never dreamt were edible:)) My favorite breakfast food is syrniki (small pankakes made of cottage cheese) with sour cream and black currant jam (homemade, btw). My Mom is an expert in cooking this, so we all look forward to Sundays when we have breakfast at my parents'). When we stay at home for the weekend, my husband usually cooks his authentic omelette (with cheese and ham, mmm:)), which is served with buttered toasts. And coffee afterwards, of course. As for having meals out, it depends hugely on the size of the city. In Moscow it's quite common, while in some small towns can be almost unheard of. You know, in soviet times going to a cafe was a real GOING OUT. In big and middle-sized cities it's now very common to have lunch in a cafe (business-lunch we call it, the price is 6-10 USD for a meal of 2-3 dishes, and it's served only till 15 or 16.00)
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Date: 2014-06-04 05:46 pm (UTC)What I can say for sure - Russians eat breakfast out much more seldom than Americans. Even on week-ends. Most Russians have breakfast at home. The menu differs a lot, depending on age, sex, working style, day of the week and who knows what else. Still, very popular are: various sandwiches (to be precise, typical Russian version of a sandwich is one-sided: bread and anything on it), omelette, fried eggs, sausages, corn flakes or muesli with milk, pancakes (on week-ends mostly), cottage cheese, or just tea or coffee with some pastry. French toasts do all right, though we don'call them so. Typical Russian breakfast dish is "kasha" (I'm not sure if porridge is the right translation), it's especially popular for children. It can be cooked of any cereal (oats, rice, wheat and some others I bet you never dreamt were edible:))
My favorite breakfast food is syrniki (small pankakes made of cottage cheese) with sour cream and black currant jam (homemade, btw). My Mom is an expert in cooking this, so we all look forward to Sundays when we have breakfast at my parents'). When we stay at home for the weekend, my husband usually cooks his authentic omelette (with cheese and ham, mmm:)), which is served with buttered toasts. And coffee afterwards, of course.
As for having meals out, it depends hugely on the size of the city. In Moscow it's quite common, while in some small towns can be almost unheard of. You know, in soviet times going to a cafe was a real GOING OUT. In big and middle-sized cities it's now very common to have lunch in a cafe (business-lunch we call it, the price is 6-10 USD for a meal of 2-3 dishes, and it's served only till 15 or 16.00)