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Ukrainian cuisine.
First thing you should know about Ukrainian cuisine is that Ukrainians are very hospitable and generous when it comes to feeding their guests. Moreover, Ukrainian ladies love and know how to cook. So, the first of our Ukraine dating tips is to be prepared to eat much and try not to refuse a second helping of anything when you are invited to dinner over to your fiancée’s home. Otherwise, she and her family (especially her mother) might think you shun their hospitality and dislike their food (and efforts put towards cooking it).
You should know that Ukrainian cuisine includes some very tasty dishes along with some more exotic ones. Among the most traditional Ukrainian dishes there are Borsch (beet soup), Vareniki (sort of Ravioli), Nalisniki (pancakes), Golubsti (cabbage rolls) and salo with garlic (Pig's fat). Some of these you may like, while others you may hate. So, another one of the Ukraine dating tips is to think out some nice explanation as to why you do not want to eat or even taste some of the food offered to you.
Make it something nice and believable. In the US or in most European countries people do not eat pig's fat. You might feel sick even thinking of eating something like that, but it is no good telling so to your fiancee's family. So, think out ahead of time some reputable reason why you deny their refreshments.
The national cuisine reflects the richness of traditions and folkways of Ukrainian people.
The most popular and well-known Ukrainian dish is surely borsch, an aromatic and appetizing cabbage-soup of some 20 ingredients. It may be cooked with beef, chicken or pork, baked beets, beans and mushrooms. Borsch is served as the main course with pampushki, soft rolls soaked in garlic.
Traditional in the Ukrainian menu are varenyky, a type of boiled dumplings with various fillings (cherries, strawberries, fried mushrooms, curd, chopped liver, etc.) and golubtsy — cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat.
Ukrainian cuisine has a variety of dairy meal as well as sweet pastry, including doughnuts, cakes and other cookies. The proud of Ukrainian people is wheat bread, sweet-smelling and light.
If you have an occasion to be at the Ukrainian home, you will be charmed by the sincere warmth of hosts and homemade food.
-“One cannot think well, love well and sleep well, if one hasn’t dined well.”
- is the basic need of human life. .
- can not survive without food.
- a great contributor to physical well-being
- a major source of pleasure, worry and stress.
- a positive force in life
- helps us cope with stressful experiences
- helps control our emotions and satisfy desires
- can play many roles
- helps strengthen family relations
- makes us feel closer to other members
- helps comfort and unite people together
- helps us feel better and even solve different problems
- is the natural medicine
- influences our health as “We are what we eat”
- healthy eating is important to good health
- Eating the right foods helps reduce your risk of nutrition – related diseases, like
heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
- should give preference to natural products
- dairy products are preferable( milk, yogurt, cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese). -- in combination with fruits they are fantastic
- they make us younger, healthier and more active.
- unite people for special events and occasions
- so-called “family suppers” or “Sunday meal”
- food tastes better when you eat it with your family
- “Worries go down better with soup.”
