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puppylover

puppylover

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I am arranging the Company Christmas Party for this year (yeah I know its only May - but venues get booked up ridiculously early)....

Anyway, I digress, I want to theme the party as Russian, so far:

Snow machine
Massive ice sculpture with vodka Luge
Traditionally dressed Russian entertainers ie cossack dancers/waiters
Traditional Russian music during cocktails and dinner
Possibly Bellinis with cream cheese/caviar for canapes
Need a russian starter?? - suggestions??
Beef stroganoff as main ??
Need a Russian Vegetarian main course - suggestions??
Need a Russian type Dessert - Suggestions??

Can you think of anything else Morbyd that I could include in the "dressing" of the event?? Any help would be appreciated.

Ta x
 
Googled this for you:(Mind you it sounds manky- stick to the caviar and champers, perhaps!:lol: )

Russian Food:

Appetizers:
Salted cucumbers (soleniye ogurscy)– small or medium size cucumbers which were kept in the salted water with spices for several weeks, traditional

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vodka snack.
Salted cabbage (kvashennaya kapusta)– another vodka snack: the pickled cabbage is being kept in the jar for the several days.with berries, salt and spices.
Herring in sheepskin coat (seledka pod shuboy) – small pieces of the herring mixed with the boiled potato, beet, carrot and mayonnaise.
Fresh vegetables (svejie ovoshy) – the salad made of cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. Usually made with vinegar or oil.
Salmon caviar (ykra) – red or black. Traditional Russian appetizer. Black one is far more expensive. Usually served on ice. Russians prefer to eat toasts with butter and caviar.
Medley (vinegret) - pieces of herring, chopped beet, cucumber, carrot, potato and oil. One of the few vegetarian salads in national cuisine.
Boiled beef tongue (yazyk) – slices of the tongue, served with horseradish


 
MARKB said:
Googled this for you:(Mind you it sounds manky- stick to the caviar and champers, perhaps!:lol: )

Russian Food:

Appetizers:
Salted cucumbers (soleniye ogurscy)– small or medium size cucumbers which were kept in the salted water with spices for several weeks, traditional



vodka snack.
Salted cabbage (kvashennaya kapusta)– another vodka snack: the pickled cabbage is being kept in the jar for the several days.with berries, salt and spices.
Herring in sheepskin coat (seledka pod shuboy) – small pieces of the herring mixed with the boiled potato, beet, carrot and mayonnaise.
Fresh vegetables (svejie ovoshy) – the salad made of cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. Usually made with vinegar or oil.
Salmon caviar (ykra) – red or black. Traditional Russian appetizer. Black one is far more expensive. Usually served on ice. Russians prefer to eat toasts with butter and caviar.
Medley (vinegret) - pieces of herring, chopped beet, cucumber, carrot, potato and oil. One of the few vegetarian salads in national cuisine.
Boiled beef tongue (yazyk) – slices of the tongue, served with horseradish
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mmmmmmmm 8O
 
hi pups :)

I'll dive into the food first seeing as I love to eat :lol:

Firstly, Russians don't eat cream cheese with caviar. You should either go for canapes with a bit of butter and caviar or bliny (little crepe/pancake like things) with bowls of caviar and sour cream to spoon on top.

Beef stroganoff is always tasty. Usually it's served with potato (fries and or mash)

Another popular Russian starter is "julienne" which is mushrooms and sour cream baked in little metal cups.

Peroshki might make good finger food. They are small baked pastries filled with meat, cabbage or potato.

A good cold starter is pickeled hering, usually served in small portion together with pickles, a few slices of boiled potato and a few pieces of onion. It's considered a great accompaniment for vodka.

A veggie ragu with eggplant, tomato and carrot might do for a veggie dish. A good veggie side dish is stewed cabbage (cooked with some finely chopped carrot and a bit of finely-chopped onion and tomato).

Pelmeny (small meat dumplings) are always tasty but not sure how they'd fit in your menu.

Dessert is tougher. Not a lot of traditional deserts other than your reguar old cakes or ice cream. One option is vareniki, which are small dumplings (shaped like a half circle) filled with cherries. Very tasty with a dollop of sour cream.

I've personally only seen the vodka luge done in London but I'm sure it'll fit in nicely nevertheless. Do you have to hand out any gifts? Matroshka dolls always fit the bill. :lol:

I'm not sure about your budget but there's a few major Russian music acts that mostly live in the UK, like Alsu or Mumiy Troll. I'm not sure how willing they'd be to preform for a non-Russian audience though... (Although Alsu had one English-language album after she came in runner-up in Eurovision a few years ago)

Random musings... if I think of anything else I'll come back to you :D
 
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Hahaha: "Mmmm, you must try the salted cabbage and cow's tongue, it's divine" 8O

I bet Pups will give these a miss, I don't think they're be welcome at her posh bashes!:lol:
 
MARKB said:

Salted cabbage (kvashennaya kapusta)– another vodka snack: the pickled cabbage is being kept in the jar for the several days.with berries, salt and spices.
Herring in sheepskin coat (seledka pod shuboy) – small pieces of the herring mixed with the boiled potato, beet, carrot and mayonnaise.
Fresh vegetables (svejie ovoshy) – the salad made of cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. Usually made with vinegar or oil.
Salmon caviar (ykra) – red or black. Traditional Russian appetizer. Black one is far more expensive. Usually served on ice. Russians prefer to eat toasts with butter and caviar.
Medley (vinegret) - pieces of herring, chopped beet, cucumber, carrot, potato and oil. One of the few vegetarian salads in national cuisine.
Boiled beef tongue (yazyk) – slices of the tongue, served with horseradish
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Oi... forgot about the salads.

Kvashenaya kapusta is a favorite of the missus. It's better than it sounds in this description... similar but less rancid than sauerkraut, sometimes with cranberries thrown in.

I hate vinegret (cold potato.. yuck) and seledka pod shuboi (too much mayonnaise) but those are traditional salads. It's basically chopped up little bits of all the ingredients

Salmon caviar (ikra, not ykra) is only red.
Black caviar is from sturgeon... could be harder to find nowadays as I think the UN just banned exports except from Iran.

The missus pointed out that I misspelled pirozhki (not peroshki). and she insists that sour cream with caviar is not as widespread as I think it is (but it's damn tasty nonethless ;))
 
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riiiiiiiight.

An interesting array of dishes there - thanks for the help guys really appreciate that...

I have to say - some of those dont sound too appetising but will have a word with the chef of the venue and see what he thinks......
 
One option, by the way, is to expand it a bit. A lot of people here eat more of a pan-Soviet diet with some various Ukrainian, Georgian, Central Asian foods and even Korean salads thrown into the mix.

Georgian-style shish kebab (called shashlyk) is awesome. Georgians also have lots of great veggetarian salads like lobio (red beans and nut paste) and pkhali (finely chopped spinach and nut paste).

Ukrainian borsch is a good soup option (though in the West I've found people over-accentuate the beet component... make sure your chefs get it right). My favorite soup from this region is harcho, an Azerbaijani lamb soup.
 
Morbyd said:
Ukrainian borsch is a good soup option (though in the West I've found people over-accentuate the beet component... make sure your chefs get it right). My favorite soup from this region is harcho, an Azerbaijani lamb soup.
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Best Ukrainian delicacy is sliced pickles dipped in honey followed by a shot of peritsovka (golirla with chillis in it). Gets you hammered also hehe.
 
Pups, one of the guys I DJ for does theme nights in a big way all over the country for big corporations. He's just recently done an Oscars night and I know that one of his nights he does is a James bond Theme night. May be worth giving him a call, or keeping him in mind for future events.

PM me if you wanna contact him.
 
DJ Soulman said:
Pups, one of the guys I DJ for does theme nights in a big way all over the country for big corporations. He's just recently done an Oscars night and I know that one of his nights he does is a James bond Theme night. May be worth giving him a call, or keeping him in mind for future events.

PM me if you wanna contact him.
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Thanks babes but I have an event management company that I use for help already..... but cheers though

(done the oscars, bond, monte carlo or bust, wild west, 20's, hollywood, honestly - its so hard to keep thinking of new "themes"...... they bloody love their themed parties this company.......)
 
puppylover said:
Thanks babes but I have an event management company that I use for help already..... but cheers though

(done the oscars, bond, monte carlo or bust, wild west, 20's, hollywood, honestly - its so hard to keep thinking of new "themes"...... they bloody love their themed parties this company.......)
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Have a 'The Office' theme party :lol:
 
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