Those all looked so good! I think we have something similar to the beef dish in the US but I hadn't heard of any of the other things. My question for the q&a is: how long have you and your husband been married and how did you meet? 😊

Okroshka!!

Pirozki!

pasta

I really love chicken Tikka masala

yes it is regards from california

Where is the meat? Regards, Iowa US.

With celery jucie and a side of 30$ fresh berries

Oatmeal and avocado toast is an excellent meal. I guess that such an intelligent person like Vika has zero knowledge in nutrition. I eat pelmeni maybe twice a year. It is delicious indeed but it is very unhealthy to eat it often. If she ate meat at lunch she shouldn't eat more meat at dinner, especially processed one. It has to be something light. Also, they use a lot of oil. As a nutritionist consultant I could say that their eating habits are just horrible. They have really bad nutrition diet in Russia, majority of population is not heathy there and life expectancy is pretty short there as well.

@@user-ru1ki I have not placed this comment in order to discuss nutritional value, but variety in the content of youtubers recently. Also, she mentions several times that eating habits in Russia (and if i can add Eastern Europe) differs quite a lot from America.

i agree so much! what man wouldn’t be happy when he has such a beautiful family

@@saltedsoup3494 cute couple

He trusts his wife entirely. He loves her to bits. He's a Dad too. And loves his daughter

The love he has for you is so wonderful. You can tell he is so proud of you. I love it.

I noticed that too! What a beautiful family!

Haha I love your name😄

Canada

are you also advising trump? that's a ...well, is it hair?

@@carmenpeters728 LET'S GO BRANDON!

@@AlexanderMichelson time to come up with some fresh material.

J'aime voir les cultures de d'autres pays avec leur point de vue, plutot que ceux que les médias nous montre. C'est beau de voir ça.

@@A.French oui t'as raison

@@golfgrabu je partage votre opinion !

@@heatherchambers1609 merci!

Nearly all good things I know about Canada are from the extraordinarily popular 90's TV series "Due South" and all bad things are from KZfaqr Black Pigeon Speaks. Seems there's a lot really rotten in Trudeau's "peoplekind"-country...

I do also . I am an American living in Israel for 30 years . It is a totally different but interesting culture here . We have alot of immigrants from Russia and Ethiopia living here .

Me too! God bless them and their KZfaq station!✝️🙏

IT GREAT YOU STARTED YOUNG TO MINIMIZE I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF I NEVER USE ITS A WASTE OF MONEY AND I WISH I NEVER BOUGHT.

Yes

Me too, I find it so interesting how other people live in the world

Ill BoiseThank you so much! I've enjoyed your videos. They are informative and real! Please continue sharing with us. ?

I was thinking that too, I have been to Russia and they did not speak such good English

Ya, I was going to say the same thing! Great English!

Yes she speaks very good English!

It is very, very good.

@@wetheamericanpeople1637shut up

How much does food cost? How much do you pay for utilities?

@@pattyriverapabon3546 Approximately $100-$150 a month for a 2 bedroom apartment. If I am not mistaken, it depends on a city you live in and size of your apartment.

I totally agree.

Yep, truth!

of course.. it shows that in nature we are all still human..

We all have the same needs, just different strategies for meeting them.

So true!! 👏👏👏

Indeed !

We need more like these family for sure

Very refreshing. I was never into those ''look at my perfect fake, hipster life'' youtubers. There's a place for everybody in the world, but when everybody is doing the same thing at some point it just comes across as showy and fake, 'cause it's just everybody competing for who has the most perfect life, and eats the healthiest avocado toast and the most organic oatmeal. It was all the ultimate brag fest. This channel is just completely refreshing, in showing the reality of what actually constitutes most people in the world, not just that of the ''playing modest, fake humble, while actually being well to do'' Western hipsters. The only thing worse than a bragger is a fake-humble bragger. This channel brings it back to grounded reality and sanity.

I live in Bulgaria now. And I love it. Like here is so much more "real" than my previous life in the UK. People care way more about playing with their children than working overtime and buying a new SUV. I have lived here 12 years and people here are much happier people than the average in the UK, yet they are much poorer financially.

@@piccalillipit9211 good for you. Who wants to live in UK, with horrible weather, expensive life, racial and social tensions and lots of globalist agenda. Bulgaria is beautiful. They have nice beaches and healthy food. Also lots of country life and nature.

@@fayefarahmand3375 I don‘t wanna be negative but isn‘t bulgaria racist as fuck

They are family goals.

@@piccalillipit9211 - I moved from NY to Alaska 30 years ago and we LOVE it. I love the cold weather and long beautiful white winters. I like the dark too. I feel all cozy inside my warm home. I cannot stand hustle and bustle of city life. We have family there, but, we have no desire to move back ever.

@Saul Doy if you want to further destroy your stereotype about Russian men, look up „The Ulengovs“ 😉 A happy young family in a remote village in south east Russia

Agreed he radiates happiness

@@mathildewesendonck7225 thanks

And then there's my dad who never cooked anything.

I cook all the meals for my family I cooked a huge Thanksgiving dinner and today I took the Turkey stock I made, the remaining turkey, onions, celery, carrots, and potatoes and a few spices and salt and pepper and made a big pot of turkey vegetable soup.

Sharon G Isn't it a breath of fresh air to see this beautiful family just be so normal and wholesome I love this too!

So many moms in israel cook with their baby on their hip, we joke and say "all the things i learn to do with one hand" :) It's beautiful!

At my household kids weren't allowed to he kitchen since my aunt accidentally dropped a pot of boiling soup on my cousin.

@@taritangeo4948 oh my God, that would do it. Kids pull down kettles on themselves, it is dangerous ☘

In the U.S. if someone cooked like that with their baby at the hip ppl would imetiately start bitching about how close the baby is to a stove.

Yes, it's very nice to see your little family, very sweet 😊

I can’t eat American wheat or gluten. I would love to try buckwheat.

Good to know! My roommate/friend just discovered he can no longer have gluten, so I will try buckwheat. Also, I'm American but my relatives were from Ukraine.

As an Estonian I love buckwheat! ❤️ Its common ingredient in our households.

Agree with you! But brown buckwheat is much better than green one. I’ve bought green buckwheat ones and I couldn’t eat it at all🙈

@@VictoriaTerekhina i thought the green kind was one of those “health foods” that people eat specifically for weight loss, rather than it being actual food 😆

So impressed with your English and your videos. Very well done and interesting. Hello from America.

Speak for yourself.

Lois Kinder, I wouldn’t call it food. I am afraid you don’t know the meaning of real food or a taste of real vegetables for that matter. Crap man, the damn fruits don’t even have a smell.

@@Igorsov Actually I buy fresh organic fruits and vegetables and eat 5 FIVE a day total. I cook from scratch, do not eat beef, veal, lamb, exotic meats and do eat a little chicken and fish.

@@loiskinder6133 Organic food is better, but still not the same if you were lucky to try the real stuff. 5 times a day? 🤦‍♂️ Surprised you have time to cook or eat 5 times a day, you must be jobless? There is no time in the U.S. to cook these days. I hope your stomach is not a size of a yoga ball...You must be a different American because all Americans I know, eat 3 times a day just like the rest of the world. Where do I buy milk that tastes like milk? I buy HEB milk and even the Promised Land milk, but it’s still not the real milk...

At least has some Russian areas out in the avenues. I lived on 42 Second. Thanks for the reminder.

Пельменииии❤️❤️❤️

oh yes, I dated a Russian over 20 years ago, and I must have tea with sweets. I don't understand why people don't get it. And, try to get American servers to serve hot tea at the same time as dessert, lol.

I'm not Russian, but I do the same inbetween chores.

Seems very similar to English tea drinking - I would have a cup of tea with some kind of biscuit like a couple of Bourbons or Custard Creams :D

Thank you!🥰😍

Exactly what I was thinking...

people aren't vegan because it is in . they are vegan for 3 reasons . it tortures and then kills animals like your pets cat and dogs . it ruins the planet and it destroys your health. educate yourself. watch factory farm videos start there. sad people are so ignorant.

@@bluebee2594 why so rude? Ive been there, done that. We live in different parts of the world, different cultures and supplies, dont need to be the same. P.S. Being judgemental and hateful is more harmful than any meat. Lots of love

@@addiopomidory agreed!

Welcome to Russia! We have delicious products, safe and beautiful! And due to the national diversity, the cuisine is very diverse, from frozen fish and venison in the north to Caucasian cuisine in the south.

That Gingerbread loaf looks yummy😋😋😋 I am from Philippines, I love the American gingerbreads😍😋Any ginger flavored pastry is irresistible💞💓

@@thelmabelda5447 here’s a recipe for the cookies Pryaniki recipe 1 cup sugar 4-5 T honey 100 g (just under one stick) butter 1/4 cup water 3 cups flour (approx) 3/4 t. Baking soda 1-3 t. Mixed spices, ground. Can include cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ground ginger, black pepper, allspice, anise (This mixture was called сухие духи (dry perfume) in the old days, a nod to the preciousness of spices obtained in trade with India and the East, and it varied from region to region and from time to time based on availability.) Use your favorites or what is available to you, less for a gently spiced cookie, more for a stronger spice flavor. Optional sugar glazing 1/2 cup confectioners sugar (powdered) 2 T lemon or orange juice Combine all ingredients except flour and soda in thick bottomed pot and heat to thoroughly dissolve the sugar and melt the butter. Once the sugar is dissolved, remove from heat and slowly stir in half of the flour. Allow to come to room temp - either place by a cold window or make a pan ice bath in a bowl that you can place your pot in. Once cooled, mix in two egg yolks (reserve whites). Preheat the oven to 360 F. To the remaining flour, stir in 3/4 tsp baking soda and mix well. Slowly add this flour mixture to the dough. Once the dough is too thick to stir with a spoon, turn out onto a floured surface and with floured hands, gently knead the dough until it is smooth and only slightly tacky, roughly the consistency of playdough. Divide the dough into two portions. Cover the reserved portion with damp towel or cling wrap to keep from drying out. Roll the other half out on floured surface to about 1/2 inch thickness. Use cookie cutter or juice glass to cut rounds or shapes from the dough. Place on baking sheet (parchment or baking pad can be helpful to keep from sticking, but not critical) and bake in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. Optional filling Use fruit paste (quince is delicious), mashed dried fruits and nuts (prunes or apricot alone or with walnuts, raisins - it may help to steam or soak the dried fruit to make it soft enough to mash), thickened jam, jam mixed with ground nuts - the key is to form a fairly dry paste and not use a runny jam that will leak out of your honey cakes. The remaining portion can either be refrigerated for up to a week or rolled out now and baked. For filled cookies, roll slightly thinner dough and cut two shapes to form the cookie. Recommended - one slightly larger rectangle and one slightly smaller one. Place filling in the center of the larger rectangle and place the smaller rectangle on top. Fold the bottoms edges up and over the top layer and press with a fork to seal.

There are Russian and Ukrainian (same food basically) stores and restaurants in Los Angeles and New York, that you could try. Uzbek cuisine is great also, and something most russians eat, not just Muslims.

They are on camera

I just found you today and thoroughly enjoyed your video. You’re so natural and lovely and your family is adorable. Hope to see more of your videos.

Yes yes please do that I really love to see hows life in other countries are 🥰

I would love to see a video about Russian grocery stores, when we travel overseas we always go to grocery stores as we find the products interesting.

I'm interested 🌼😊🌼

I totally get that happiness! As a Slovak who grew up in Italy, although I obviously love eating Italian food, a big part of me is totally super fond of the "naughty" Eastern European food of my roots 😋

Raw garlic on the side ! My childhood haha

prometabolic breakfast

Uck

I'm born and raised in the USA, and everyone thinks I'm weird for eating cloves of garlic raw. I have some Slavic blood in me, so I'm going to go with that explanation from here on out.

My Russian mum does them and they’re delicious. She makes them wider though.

What kind of cheese did they use in the recipe? I jus cant understand what she was saying there

@@yirqanderson8995 cottage cheese

@@yirqanderson8995 I’m in us and it’s called “farmers cheese” not cottage cheese.

Thank you a lot!☺️🌼

Spasiba for your channel!! I've worked in Maritime Security for many years and some of my colleagues have been Russian and I have visited Russia and experienced Russian hospitality many times. Your daughter is sooo cute and definitely puts a more family setting to your channel.

I want to try their meals as well. We don't have a Russian market where I live so I'll have to see what I can find.

Pelmeni*

I hope you liked pelmeni. One of my favorite dishes, but the taste depends greatly on the quality of filling. One can eat them with various small additions. I like pelmeni with vinegar, tomato sauce and black pepper (all at the same time). You can also try buckwheat with milk, it's a popular dish too. You just pour milk into cooked buckwheat, kind of like you do with cereal. But it's usually eaten warm or hot, and salty rather than sweet. Take care!

Гречка is our everything))) This is the most Russian food)

@@marlenedurbala6238 Most things are made with the same ingredients you will find in most supermarkets , there are a few that are kind of unique to Russia and other slavic countries but not many , just differnt ways of cooking them and cooking some things in a way that seems a bit alien , like frying carrots for borsch

😂 Thank you!

He sure do! 🤔

Omg yes he does. If you saw james Bond smile all the time

You're right 👍

The cutes couple i have seen in a while. In my language we would say that they are very simpaticni ❣

Who are you to dictate what other people need?

That sounds delicious!

You can buy all kinds of groats, not only buckwheat, not only in a Russian shops, but also for over 100 years in every Polish shop, whether Ukrainian or Jewish one. Different types of groats are an important element of Slavic cuisine (like pasta in Italy). European Jews, who emigrated to the USA mainly from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, took the groats from the Slavs to their cuisine (and also, for example, pickled (salty) cucumbers, many types of forest mushrooms or gingerbread). So if you want, you can buy groats in America quite easily.

Nice input , love to hear about exchange …

Okay this sounds freaking delicious and I may need to make a pilgrimage to WV now!!

Buckwheat is traditionally used for porridge in Ukraine , not wheat oats like in England , i have tried it and will eat it but prefer wheat oats porridge , just what you are used to i guess

Thank you!🥰💛

In Italy too

Those are not really russian. They are german who came from Russia. Aussiedler in ur language.

@@AO-jm5ep vielen Dank für die Erklärung :)

Funny how I was recommended the same video before I landed on this channel!

Too damn long to make for a really fast eating... If I had a russian market near my new home I would definetly buy the frozen pelmenish. For now I dont cook it anymore 🥴🥴🥴

Not many Italians make their own tortellini either.. people are pragmatic

I know some people and my own family included that makes our own dumplings but it's family tradition and a huge family affair. Everyone, even the small children, help in the process. We make hundreds at a time and freeze it!

@@kirasgirl yes! But on the daily or just with myself? I'll buy frozen. Lol

In Kazakhstan my family always makes homemade pelmeni (dumplings) and then freeze them. I personally don't like pelmeni from store.

It shouldn’t be that surprising, Russians have 9 years of mandatory English learning in school.

@@Mindyourlanguagedear In US everyone takes Spanish but most still can’t speak it

@@EWCIAGROBEL it’s not a mandatory subject from grade 2 though...

@@EWCIAGROBEL not everyone

@@hairdresser1300 omg yes not everyone , but it’s the most popular second language in schools - semantics 🙄😒. Point is that just because someone takes a second language for years doesn’t mean they can speak it fluently

Hello how are you doing 👋👋👋👋

I’ve known one American guy who came to Russia and when he saw buckwheat served as a lunch in our summer camp he assumed that it’s “some food for birds”😂

Buckwheat is life 😍 greetings from Poland

We eat buckwheat pancakes in the US.

Buckwheat is life, indeed. Greetings from Czechia

We LOVE kasha!

haha similar apartments here in Slovakia :) I can see plenty of similarities :) Love this video😊

@@andreahejnusova1452 And similar apartaments in Poland 😃

Yay for pierogi

We eat pierogi in USA but only because my husbands family is Polish descent. We love all pierogi, mushroom, cheese, sauerkraut and mushroom and plum.

@@littlewayslittlethingsjenn5386 mushroom and plum like together? Never heard of that! 🤔

Cześć! Pierogi z kapustą i grzybami najlepsze!❤️

No mushroom and sauerkraut! And plum. Separate!

Hi

Thank you! She’s the cutest💛

Hello how are you doing 👋👋👋😀😀

I had a Russian meal in London (I live in Scotland and our international cuisine options are kinda lacking except for pizza, Japanese and curry), it was some of the best food I’ve ever eaten - delicious! The staff were all really polite too.

Italians are such foodies 😋

Also, I am American but my ancestors are from Ukraine.

Thank you🥰

Hello how are you doing 👋👋👋👋😀

Aaaww that’s so cute!😍

Idahoan here. Cute family to be sure!