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Russian market shopping trip


One of the things I love about being back in San Francisco is being close to my favorite Russian grocer, New World Market,  located at 5641 Geary Boulevard in the Richmond district. It is definitely worth a visit the next time you are in San Francisco. Whenever I walk in, it always seem like I am stepping into the middle of the best party in town. It's always lively and boisterous. The smiling guys behind the deli counter hand out samples of hot, grilled housemade sausage off the tips of their knives. Platters of other house-cured cold cuts line the counter awaiting samplers. The women scooping beet salad, marinated eggplant, and pickled herring chit-chat with customers. All around me I hear the Russian, Yiddish, Korean, English, and Chinese being spoken as patrons heap borscht, napoleans, vareniki, farmer's cheese, caviar, butter, and black bread into their baskets. Who wouldn't be happy doing that?
Above you see a photo of some of my New World Market haul. Today I stopped in for stuffed cabbage (my comfort food), lamb kebabs, brined cherry tomatoes (that I ate like candy when I was pregnant), chopped chicken livers, housemade "Stolichnaya" sausage, puff pasty cookies, homemade pelmeni, brinza cheese, 3 kids of piroshki, dark rye, and Russian potato salad. Not shown is my bottle of Youri Dologoruki vodka which I stuck in the freezer to chill. (If you've never tried it, you should!) Can't wait for our deliciously Russian dinner tonight, and best of all: no cooking!

Filed Under: Business, Stores & Shopping, Ingredients, Drink Recipes, Bakeries
Tags: america, appetizers, comfort food, dinner, hors doeuvres, new world market, pelmeni, russian food, russian market, RussianFood, san francisco, stores-and-shopping, stuffed cabbage, vodka, youri dolgoruki vodka, YouriDolgorukiVodka

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