Just another idea for that backyard grill. I'm gonna go get the ingredients and start preparation now for this evening. I'll be using boneless beef tips rather than straight mutton, though.
I've been told to accompany shashlik with white rice, butter, lemon juice, salt, pepper and parsley. Also uncooked cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices (with a light dill cream sauce) can refresh the palate in between juicy meat bites. I'll get pics up once it's created.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
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Sounds pretty nice. You have to remember though that Russian agricultural prducts are uniformly shite.
I suggest you go for authenticity and rather than going to the store for your beef/mutton, you go collect some roadkill.
I once invited a lovely-to-gorgeous girl to the house for steaks. She thought sure she would die from eating a ribeye medium rare.
Probabky in good old St Pete, she would've.
Yes, when reading the Torah or Quran with an anthropological lens, we see religious dogma trying to protect people by proscribing certain diets: don't eat pig, or shell fish, for example (I guess a higher likelihood of food-born illness in Mediterranean sun, as opposed to beef). And I wonder if the Soviet proletariat had a time procuring decent beef throughout the 20th century: it was simply advisable to cook the shit out of it — cooking dogma that still lingers in the minds of our contemporary Russian babes, like you say.
In contrast, Mongolian agricultural products, when I visited, were damn good. Even though Moscow continuously tried to bring Marxist order to the Steppes of Mongolia, the life of a shepherd/nomad diet carried on. Like the Russian babe, though, Mongolians still cook the shit out of beef. The reason I'm using this recipe has to do with a skype session I had with Mongolia last night (not the whole country; just with a friend). He said there's a great Shashik BBQ a couple blocks down from his Ulaanbataar apt., I think run by a really short Uzbek.
Is this made with berbec meat? The it's a real BBQ.
I had the Roman version of bbq the other day here. OMG...
Lamb would be good, but I'm not close enough to AA's old Montana stomping grounds. And it's difficult to convince Montana sheep-fuckers that they should sell a NoDaker one of their wooly girlfriends for the bbq. Just kidding Montana, holy shit take it easy. But seriously, North Dakota has found an excellent market in producing and selling velcro gloves to Montana shepherds... Kidding, kidding again.
See link in some posts above for photos.
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