Do you ever eat breakfast for supper? It's one of the favorite dinners at my house. Typically we eat eggs or I make a quiche and we have fruit and sauteed mushrooms and I make biscuits for the kids and husband. But if I wanted to mix it up a little I could make waffles or pancakes...or even blini if I wanted to give a little cultural flair to the meal.

I could also try my hand at Olady. Olady are another kind of Russian pancake - thicker and smaller than blini and with a base of kefir or sour cream. Here is a recipe for the "other Russian pancake" from the Russian Foods website:

Ingredients:

4 c buttermilk or kefir.
20 tb flour.
3 tb sugar.
3 ea eggs.
2 ts baking soda.
1 ts salt.

Directions:

Mix eggs with buttermilk (kefir or sour milk). Add soda, sugar, salt and flour and mix thoroughly. The batter must be dense but liquid, if it is not, add more flour. Drain the batter so that there are no flour lumps in it. Pour a little vegetable oil into a pan. Heat the pan. Pour 5-6 little rounds of batter on the pan. Cook until light brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Servings: 5-6.

Oladyi can be served with butter, sour cream, sugar or jam.