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What to cook for him on 23 February

Sixty dishes for a husband or father on 23 February with a price per serving: kholodets, liver cake, borscht with garlic buns, solyanka, pelmeni, chebureki, goulash, meatloaf, shashlik, plov, wings. Ready tables: meat, for dad, for a crowd, no oven, a 23 February breakfast.

60recipes
$0.24–$5.95per portion
10 min – 24 h 30 minto cook
92–1650kcal per portion

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Sixty dishes for a husband or father on 23 February: seventeen starters, from kholodets, liver cake and belyashi to honey-soy wings, garlic croutons, a roast beef sandwich and a pickle plate; four soups, among them solyanka, borscht with garlic buns, shurpa and kharcho; thirty-one mains, from goulash with mash, homemade pelmeni and chebureki to meatloaf with an egg inside, beef in red wine, shashlik, plov and pork neck in mustard; a 23 February breakfast, four cakes and pies, kvass and cranberry mors.

Every dish has a price per serving from average supermarket prices. Servings here are man-sized, 500–700 kcal for a main, and no dish needs anything beyond meat, dough, potatoes and an oven. Below are six ready tables with a total and cooking time.

Ready menus

Dinner for a husband after work

A pickle plate, goulash with mash, homemade pelmeni for tomorrow and a honey cake.

23 February breakfast

Eggs with bacon and fried potatoes, potato pancakes with bacon and sour cream, a roast beef sandwich to take to work.

Salads 2

Beef Tongue, Mushroom and Cornichon Salad Dinner2 h 45 min410 kcal≈ $2.29

Russian-Style Olivier with Tongue Dinner2 h 45 min417 kcal≈ $1.56

Starters 11

Liver Cake with Vegetable Layers Snack9 h456 kcal≈ $0.77

Crispy Borodinsky Bread Croutons with Garlic and Cheese Sauce Snack18 min430 kcal≈ $1.82

Honey-Soy Glazed Chicken Wings Snack55 min480 kcal≈ $0.98

Russian Meat Pirozhki (Belashi) Snack45 min520 kcal≈ $1.63

Beef Roast Sandwich with Horseradish Cream Snack1 h 10 min526 kcal≈ $5.95

Nachos with Beef Sauce and Cheese Snack30 min451 kcal≈ $1.90

A Plate of Pickles for the Table Snack10 min140 kcal≈ $1.67

Juicy Chebureki (Kazakh/Mongolian Meat Pies) Snack45 min524 kcal≈ $1.70

Pork and Beef Kholodets Snack19 h500 kcal≈ $1.79

Cold Cuts with Mustard and Cornichons Snack10 min341 kcal≈ $2.56

Smoked Sprat Sandwiches with Cucumber and Egg Snack20 min472 kcal≈ $2.08

Soup 4

Assorted Meat Solyanka Lunch1 h 15 min556 kcal≈ $3.41

Beetroot Soup with Garlic Dumplings (Borscht with Pampushky) Lunch1 h 30 min611 kcal≈ $3.00

Lamb Shurpa Lunch1 h 35 min528 kcal≈ $4.28

Kharcho Lunch1 h 20 min586 kcal≈ $3.41

Mains 37

Herring with Boiled Potatoes and Onions Dinner25 min606 kcal≈ $2.85

Buffalo Wings Dinner45 min738 kcal≈ $2.26

Air-Fryer Wings with Potatoes Dinner35 min729 kcal≈ $1.66

Khinkali with Black Pepper Dinner20 min735 kcal≈ $3.41

Beef Goulash with Mashed Potatoes Dinner2 h685 kcal≈ $3.61

Homemade Dumplings with Sour Cream Dinner1 h 35 min693 kcal≈ $1.99

Meat Loaf with a Hard-Boiled Egg Inside Dinner1 h 15 min699 kcal≈ $2.19

Pan-Seared Pork Chops with Crispy Potatoes Dinner45 min680 kcal≈ $1.59

Beef Stewed in Red Wine Dinner2 h 30 min676 kcal≈ $5.04

Classic Homemade Meatballs with Mashed Potatoes Dinner50 min699 kcal≈ $2.16

Meat-Loaded Salami, Ham & Bacon Pizza Dinner25 min665 kcal≈ $3.04

Large Beef Shawarma in Lavash Dinner35 min694 kcal≈ $3.04

Pork Neck Roasted with Mustard and Garlic Dinner1 h 55 min573 kcal≈ $1.52

Grilled Honey-Mustard Glazed Pork Ribs Dinner1 h 30 min1397 kcal≈ $4.51

BBQ Pork Ribs in the Oven Dinner2 h 30 min1650 kcal≈ $4.30

Beef Stroganoff with Mash Dinner45 min804 kcal≈ $3.87

Pork Neck Skewers in Onion Marinade Dinner1 h748 kcal≈ $2.19

Pork Shishkebab in the Oven with Onions Dinner1 h837 kcal≈ $2.88

Caucasian Lamb Shashlik with Onion and Cumin Dinner45 min606 kcal≈ $4.71

Chicken Pilaf Lunch50 min750 kcal≈ $1.08

Lamb Pilaf with Carrots and Garlic Lunch1 h 30 min839 kcal≈ $3.24

Homemade burger on a whole-grain bun Dinner25 min817 kcal≈ $3.79

Beef Pot Roast in Individual Clay Pots Dinner1 h 45 min411 kcal≈ $3.18

Pork Roll with Cheese and Tomatoes Dinner1 h 35 min516 kcal≈ $1.71

Lasagna with Ground Beef Lunch1 h 10 min946 kcal≈ $3.35

Pork with Prunes and Apples in the Oven Dinner1 h 30 min571 kcal≈ $1.55

Baked Buzhenina (Pork Neck) Dinner2 h587 kcal≈ $1.69

French-Style Pork Cutlets Dinner1 h567 kcal≈ $2.34

Russian Meat-Stuffed Blini Dinner1 h658 kcal≈ $1.72

Barbecue Chicken Drumsticks with Potatoes Dinner1 h832 kcal≈ $1.18

Caraway and Garlic Roast Pork Shoulder Dinner2 h 30 min662 kcal≈ $1.42

Pork Brisket with Braised Cabbage Dinner1 h 30 min1389 kcal≈ $2.46

Shank Braised with Vegetables Dinner3 h759 kcal≈ $3.56

Sausages with Braised Sauerkraut Dinner40 min468 kcal≈ $2.26

Rustic Potatoes Dinner50 min266 kcal≈ $0.58

Bacon and Potato Scramble with Toast Breakfast30 min720 kcal≈ $2.01

Potato Pancakes with Bacon and Sour Cream Breakfast35 min689 kcal≈ $1.65

Dessert 6

Peanut Butter Caramel Chocolate Cake Snack2 h 50 min444 kcal≈ $0.72

Apple Crisp (Caramelized Apple) Snack1 h365 kcal≈ $0.50

Honey Cake (Medovik) Snack2 h695 kcal≈ $0.94

Chocolate Kefir Cake Snack1 h 10 min423 kcal≈ $0.45

Homemade Rye Bread Kvass Snack24 h 30 min123 kcal≈ $0.24

Cranberry Morse Snack20 min93 kcal≈ $0.45

How to use it

Every recipe has a servings counter: set the number of eaters and the grams recalculate. Servings are man-sized: mains 500–700 kcal, starters 400–500, soups 500–600; for a party evening one person needs a starter, a soup or a main and a slice of cake.

Everything slow is made the day before: kholodets simmers six hours and sets overnight, the liver cake soaks eight hours, kvass ferments a day, beef in wine braises two hours. The morning is for soup and the main, the evening for starters and platters. Make pelmeni and chebureki together: that is half the holiday.

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Questions

What to cook for a husband's dinner on 23 February?

Goulash with mash, homemade pelmeni, pork chops with fried potatoes, meatloaf with an egg inside, beef in red wine or pork neck in mustard. Add a pickle plate and a honey cake. The husband's dinner menu above shows the price per person, and half of it gets finished the next day.

What to cook for dad on 23 February?

Herring with potatoes, borscht with garlic buns, homestyle cutlets with mash, caramel apple charlotte and mors: the dad menu above. Among starters fathers usually expect kholodets with mustard and liver cake; both are made the day before.

What to cook for 23 February at work or for a crowd?

Belyashi, chebureki, honey-soy wings, nachos with meat sauce, garlic croutons with cheese sauce, roast beef sandwiches, meat pizza. All of it is eaten by hand without reheating; for four, count two starters per person and one main.

What to cook for 23 February without an oven?

Garlic croutons, chebureki, belyashi, a big beef shawarma, pork chops with fried potatoes, goulash, pelmeni, solyanka, borscht and shurpa: the stove is enough. The no-oven menu above is made of them.

How much does a meat table for four cost?

The menu for four friends above shows the price per person from average supermarket prices; the priciest things on a meat table are beef, tenderloin and lamb, the cheapest are liver, chicken and dough. Pork neck, drumsticks and mince give the same table at half the price of beef.