blini, i love you

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talk about how good blini are

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.teremok.com.ru/pix/geo_01s.jpg

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

What's 'blini'?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.teremok.com.ru/pix/header_slivki.gif

pancakes!!! for 50p!!!!! omg!!!!

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

WOW! Can I find one in Exeter?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

er....if you go to exeter, then go to southampton airport and fly to moscow. or st petersburg. the moscow ones are better tho. they do ones with chocolate.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

ambrose has failed to mentionthe most excellent blini alexander nevsky featuring pickled herring dill and sour cream and the excellent salmon blinis.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

did you email them?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

what, about a franchise? no i am too lame.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hell yes, better than media tele-hassling. You could have a phenononem on your hands.

oh and i belie it wat Blin stari nevski

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahah! good job description. i am going to use that in future..:
"good afternoon, my name is ambr0se wh1te, im calling from %*$&£%(£), and i'm just trying to tele-hassle you into giving me your email address..."

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a difference betw. blini and blintzes? I'm from Russian stock so I shd know this.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to get the term "telebegging" into the recently rebuilt fundraising database at the university where I work, but they didn't use it. I suggested an alternative official term of "telegouging" but they didn't like that either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Honestly, I thought this thread said "Albini, I love you" and I was a bit worried.

Blini, judging by that picture, look more rolled up and filled than blintzes, if you know what I mean? Blintzes are a bit more like manicotti, more filled-up-tube-like whereas that picture above is of a very folded thing.

Yeah, did I mention the FOod Network is clamoring for my food description skills?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

In my somewhat limited experience, blintzes are always served rolled with a delicious filling. Blini are a bit smaller and served in a stack, as accompaniment to fishy delights, in a roll-your-own situation. Blini are typically made with buckwheat too, while blintzes can be of normal wheat flour.

Blini is the plural of blin, by the way, unless I am mistaken.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

that looks like a blintz up there. blini are flat and round and slightly thicker and eaten w/ sour cream and caviar. right?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

That's caviar?!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think a crucial distinction is that blintzes are cooked after they are filled, while blini are not.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda thought that pic looked like a blintz rather than what I remembered blini to look like. Which is why I asked...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sanpetersburgo.com/imagenesgas/blini.jpg

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You too can win and touch Paul's Blini!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That top picture looks absolutely nothing like it contains caviar at all.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

it's big red caviar!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like cranberries. Which really is an odd topping for a blintz now that I think about it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a pathetic caviar blini. the ones in petersburg were like the one up top, all rolled up, lots of filling ok so its lumpfish caviar but what the hell.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Manhattan's financial district has a restaurant called Blini Hut, which is apparently publicly traded. I've been there once, years ago... it seems quite authentic. Anyone FAB?

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

we could club together and buy that company and turn it into Teremok.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

never seen tortuga caviar?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

blintz ?

never saw that in russia. must be some other slavic thingy.
blin in russia either meant just well, pretty much a crepe (as opposed to a pancake) with, like, whatever you want (as long as its ed-sanctioned stodgy north euro fare) inside, or like someone said a stack of fat yeasty ones with gunk poured on top. buckwheat? i guess thats the traditionb but i dont know whether anyone bothers anymore.
i had to eat 15 of these shits a day.

ally is otm. the baove picture is a blin with cranberries and cream.
heres one with caviar:

http://www.teremok.com.ru/pix/header_ikra.gif

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

lets have one with herring, smetana and dill in it for old time's sake.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost certainly, the blintz is a Polish invention, as popular with the native Poles as with Jews of European descent. The word clearly is Slavic, as in “blini,” the buckwheat pancake that Russians serve with melted butter and, when they’re flush, with caviar. The Hungarian word for pancake, “palascinta,” has a similar root sound.

An Internet story claims that the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella spared their Jewish blintz chef from the Inquisition, but this anecdote seems absurd. The Inquisition affected the “Sephardim,” derived from “Sefarad,” Hebrew for "Spanish." At that moment in history, Jews had not yet dispersed into Eastern Europe. Therefore, a Sephardic Jew, in that era of no communication and little travel, would not have known a Slavic recipe.

Another report tells of a young Russian Jew recruited into Stalin’s secret police. When someone attempted to poison Stalin’s food, Stalin had all six of his chefs executed, and appointed this Jewish boy as his replacement chef. The boy knew only two recipes, for latkas and for blintzes, and he claims that Stalin became very fond of those blintzes. He later escaped from Russia, and subsequently told his story. (See: www.jpost.com/com/Archive/27.Jul.1998/Features/Article-20.html)

Some blintz recipes follow, including the original cheese blintz recipe attributed to New York City’s Stage Delicatessen, as well as a blintz “Soufflé.” This Souffle is less labor intensive than individual blintzes. It also does not require frying, therefore eliminating the fat used for that technique, and the ensuing calories.

http://www.jewish-holiday.com/blintzblitz.html

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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