tdugan333 wrote:
If your going for a Russian type tasting to be more authentic they eat pretty hearty foods with vodka. Smoked fish, platters of cheeses with breads and fruit, piroshki, cabbage, tomato onion salad, minced pork stuff like that. This is a fun little custom to do at the beginning of the meal or party whatever.
You start with making a forkful of food and then someone makes a toast and everyone clinks their glasses. Next, take a quick, short intake of breath, blow it out, bring your forkful of food to your nose and get a good whiff -- and then you are to drink the vodka immediately and quickly. When your glass hits the table, again blow air out through your mouth smell your food again, then eat it. It's fun and for some reason that first forkful of food tastes the best.
Alright Dugie, you're my virtual party planner ! We'll have to make it semi traditional though, I'm thinking about 30 people in mid December at my house in IL. or I could do fifteen at my apartment in NJ in early December. Thanks hon.
