When I have free time, I like to cook. Over six years of life in a multinational country, I learned how to prepare dishes from different countries. But naturally, upon arrival at my new place of residence, I knew only how to cook simple Russian dishes. When I settled in a hostel for foreign students, we often began to gather with friends in the hall and enjoy dishes from different countries at dinner, which they themselves cooked. So I had the skills of cooking "complex" Russian dishes, such as belyashi, pelmeni, vareniki ...
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Vareniki became a dish that did not leave disappointed any Chinese, Australian, British, Indian, Malayasian, Thai, Singaporean, Mexican, Vietnamese ....
Very soon dumplings became my crown dish, which most of my friends, acquaintances, clients and colleagues asked me to cook.
But one day everything changed. Just then I began to meet with Andrean. Naturally, I wanted to hit 100% Indonesian with Russian food. On that day on the table stood a jellyfish of pork legs, and herring under a fur coat, and vareniki with potatoes. Dumplings with potatoes were quickly eaten by his friend's girlfriend, but the rest of the dishes were left uneaten. Only then, after a few months, Andrean laughed at me, nothing worse than a cold and a herring under a fur coat he had never tried in his life!
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And once I cooked him pork ribs in a vanilla marinade, trying to pamper him with his second favorite dish after vareniki among foreigners. But for the company to sweet ribs, a spicy sauce. Then I was furious: "What are you! All the vanilla flavor will spoil! "Soon I realized that Andrean no meat dish prepared by me can not do without an acute sauce. He so generously dipped my cutlets, dumplings, whites, stuffed chicken legs, dishes from duck and chicken in hot sauce, which it was useless to object to. But when Andrean poured hot sauce into the hodgepodge, I almost refused to cook for him at all.
Later I read that in fans of spicy cuisine receptors are arranged so that any non-acute food for them is tasteless. I set the task to learn how to cook so that a hot sauce was not needed. Our diet was significantly supplemented with dishes with a lot of spices, sauces and chili, that even cutlets and dumplings began to have a whole fireworks of flavors. Andrean is pleased! And to be honest, I, along with him, fell in love with such dishes and now enjoy eating his home-made sharp sambal. I have long abandoned simple dishes without sharpness and spices. That's acculturation!