Town and Food (and a little Mira)

I had every intention of doing a whole blog post on food, but I find that I have WAAAAY too many photos of the food for one post. So, I’ll put a few food tidbits in every post.


While we were still in Kiev, we were told about this wonderful Ukrainian buffet across the street from TGIFriday’s. It is really cheap and everything was REALLY good! Here, you can see meatballs in sauce, bortsch, and pierogies filled with potatoes. Only these aren’t called pierogies here, I’ll show you what they call pierogies later on- they are NOTHING like ours that we buy frozen in the USA.

In and around Priluki:

The local post office where we can get internet. We use our laptops, but it is possible to pay by the minute to use their computers. (just in case those of you soon to travel wondered)

Our Hotel- Hotel Priluki

You can see that there is a door next to the main door. That is the hotel’s restaurant and the main party spot in town. The food is really cheap. We ate there once. Rich refuses to eat there again because he noticed this lovely fly paper hanging above the food and because we noticed that the food sat on the counter all day. You order what you want and they serve it from that dish on the counter. If it doesn’t all get eaten, it stays out overnight for people to order the next day.

Across from our hotel is a big square with a statue of what we think is Lenin.

Behind the square is my favorite place- the street market!!! It’s a flea market/bazaar. you can find everything here. Farmers selling their produce, grocery items, clothing, housewares, toiletries, school supplies, etc. Notice the dog laying on the ground. Dogs are all over the place here. There is no pet control, no leash laws (I think most of them are wild anyway)… They haven’t bothered us, except with their barking at night.

Ukrainian people love their glitz. Check out this whole market stall full of shiny belt buckles- Rhinestone City, here we come!

At the back of the marketplace is a nice little buffet restaurant. The food is really good. And it’s nice to point to what you want and know what you are getting.

Tongue (gotta try something different), potato stew, salad. Ukrainians LOVE their salads. You must have one with EVERY meal as a first course. Usually it is shredded cabbage, with cucumber and tomato in vinegar and oil. Sometimes mayonnaise is added.

Rich loves these mushroom crepes and meatballs.

I enjoy these dessert crepes (taste like cheesecake). Rice is so good with a thin red gravy and fried meat patty. The meat is interesting- we can’t figure out what it is. It’s like an italian meatball made with a ground white meat and then flattened out and rolled in some breading and fried. Very yummy!!! And fattening.

This potato soup was SOOO yummy!

Everyone told me how good bortsch was. I know I just spelled it wrong. Anyway, I tried it at a couple of different places- nothing special and actually kinda bland. Until….our street market buffet had it!!!! It was SOOOO good, I can’t wait until they serve it again. I need to figure out how to get the recipe from them.

Here are some meat-filled dumplings. And of course, anything resembling a crepe or dumpling is served with sour cream. And so is soup. And so is salad. And sometimes pizza. And…you get the idea. These people love their sour cream and mayo.

Well, that’s a start to life and food in Priluki.

I’ll close with a few pictures of the newest Wells darling.


Daddy and Mira

Playing with Mira

Sitting with Mira

Mommy and Mira

Walking with Mira

Reading to Mira

Singing to Mira