Are you a Anna Karenina groupie or suffered through (or enjoyed) War and Peace? Then you will enjoy recipes that celebrate Tolstoy's Russian birthplace. Make one tonight for dinner or honor the influential writer all week with a variety of Eastern European favorites.It's a cuisine not always on my radar so I know I'll have fun making Borscht (hmmm...with or without meat?), rediscovering Stroganoff (The Whole Meal's chicken version is below), or trying my hand at Pirozykh, individual-sized baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings.
Recipe for Borscht
Recipe for The Whole Meal's Chicken Stroganoff
Recipe for Beef Stroganoff
Recipe for Pirozykhi
and worth looking at just for the beautiful photos and if you want a Russian-themed dinner party :)
Can't get enough of the broody Russian? More tidbits on Tolstoy:
I found an article on one of Tolstoys's little known but interesting works, A Calendar of Wisdom, an anthology of quotes he collected over 15 years. Check it out here.
Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You is often regarded as a key text for modern Christian anarchism. Christian anarchists believe there is only one authority to God embodied in the teaching of Jesus and reject that human governments have ultimate authority over human societies. Most are pacifists. Tolstoy's work and his idea of nonviolent resistance was impactful on both Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
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