Fish soup
Anastasia Web Svetlana from Gomel will surely do a first-class job making this traditional Belorussian meal for you.

Ingredients:
1 onion, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 stalk celery, with leaves, chopped
4-5 cups water twist of lemon peel salt and white pepper bay leaf
1 to 1 and 1/2 lbs of fish trimmings, heads, and bones, even shrimp shells optional: up to a cup of white wine

1,1 lb white fish fillets, sliced into 6 serving pieces
6 thin slices of lime
1 tb finely cut fresh dill leaves
Slowly bring all ingredients to a boil in a large saucepan, skimming when necessary. Partially cover, and cook at a medium heat for 20-30 minutes.
Bring stock to a boil in a large saucepan. Lower in the fish fillets and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 3-4 minutes--until the fish is just opaque. Carefully lift the fish out and put into flat soup bowls. Pour hot stock on top, squeeze a little lime juice into each bowl, float a thin lime slice on top, and sprinkle with dill. Serve at once.

Pork stew

Machanka is a very traditional Belorussian dish of meat stewed in broth. It is eaten with pancakes.

How about a plate of delicious Belorussian machanka? Nothing can warm your heart and stomach better than this traditional pork stew meal.
Ask Anastasia Web Svetlana to make it for you!

Ingredients:
1,1 lb pork
1 cupful meat stock or water
2 tb melted fat
1 onion
1 cupful sour cream sauce
spices
salt

Fry pork chunks each containing a bit of rib and brown them until crisp. Put them in a saucepan, add meat stock or water, bay leaves, salt, cover with a lid and stew until it is half done. Use the pan juices to prepare sour cream sauce with onion. To make the sour cream sauce saut? the flour (1 tb), blend it with hot stock, strain, add salt and sour cream and boil over slow heat for 5 to 10 minutes. When done add browned onions and mix thoroughly.
Cover the prepared meat with sauce, add spices and put into oven for some time. Serve the machanka with pancakes.

Cranberry jelly

Traditional Belorussian beverages are myadukha, berezavik, kvas, beer, kisiel and many others.
In the good old times when Soviet people had no idea about Coca-cola, they drank refreshing and delicious home-made kisiel.

Anastasia Web Svetlana from Gomel can give you the picture of what it tasted like.

Ingredients:
3.5 - 4.2 oz cranberry
3-4 tb sugar
2-3 tb potato flour

Sort the cranberries, wash them in hot water and mash finely with a spoon or pestle. Add some water and press through a sieve. Cover the berry pulp with 4-5 times the quantity of water; bring to a boil and strain. Cool part of the juice and dissolve potato flour in it. Prepare syrup from the other part of the juice by adding sugar and bringing to a boil. Then pour in the dissolved potato flour, bring to a boil again, cool and add the juice. Pour out the prepared kisiel, sprinkle with sugar and cool.