Dasha Malakhova, whose culinary diary has been discussed for two years, told us about her family.
Today she also participates in other projects, she plays in the theater, raises Matyasha's son, does house and family, but the culinary theme in her life grows and spreads: a specialized website has just appeared, the book "Culinary Diary" (and on the way two), the children's cooking school is gathering momentum ... Dasha, is this love of cooking a "congenital pathology" or a thoroughly trained skill? Well, to inherent qualities it is difficult to attribute, although I have been preparing since eight years. I always repeat: I am made from childhood, and everything that happens to me goes from there. Our family has a style of good food. "Black pepper to fish is just a bad taste!" - this I heard from my mother. Both she and her grandmothers cooked superbly, absolutely fantastically covered the festive tables. And for them it was important to treat, please the guests. There are people who are comfortable and entertaining. And in our family, this taste for food is. We are both - and I, and my husband Chaba - serving people. Now many young women believe that cooking is a way of life, even bytovuha ... It all depends on how to treat it. We confuse the love of food and kitchen lawsuits.
In fact, the modern hostess can serve bread for breakfast, similar to home, good (even a little more expensive) oil, fresh greens and excellent coffee. As advises Jamie Oliver, it's time to "denude" cooking - to remove all unnecessary, everything that makes our life more difficult. And our women have a passionate, selfless desire to feed. Even I had a moment when I felt that I was also becoming such a "nursing" woman ... And now I'm not tired of repeating: "When a woman comes to her husband at night, she should not smell of cutlets." This is antisexual!
It's true, we want to admit it or not. Therefore, I believe that every woman should find her method of getting rid of the cutlet odor by the evening. Someone will, according to my advice, fry the cutlets in the oven (by the way, Chub suggested this way to me), someone - to buy ready-made cutlets in a restaurant, if the means permit. But the important thing is different: you need to reconsider your attitude to cooking. It is not necessary to prepare four kinds of omelettes for each member of the family, it is not necessary to arrange such a feast for the guests to fall down dead. Cooking should bring joy. Why not? After cooking, decorating the table - it's natural for a woman! Do you think so?
I'm convinced of this! This creation, and what is more inherent in a woman than creation? These men can afford to destroy for the sake of some goals, and our task is to create. In addition, by making friends something delicious, you can reveal your talent and get into the spotlight. And this is so necessary for a woman - that she was admired. Have you conceived the Children's Culinary School to instill a new attitude to the kitchen? No, at first it was a purely social project. He was born to me when I went to children's homes. After all, when Vitalik Kozlovsky comes to the children, he sings, right? What should I do? So I began to cook with them, to make a small holiday out of it. And finally the project matured, when I somehow got absolutely home late at night, and at the door I was met by a three-year-old Matyash. I'm falling dead, I need to cook dinner, and then - "Mom, play with me!". I think the situation is familiar to many mothers ... Of course! And then it dawned on me. I say: "Son, but can you play with me?" Here, in the kitchen. " And we began to cook dinner together. And Matyas was in full ecstasy! I do not remember, like pancakes then cooked. In all seriousness?
Of course! No syusi-pusi - we then cooked all this and ate. And this is how it should be: children thinly feel false, so their cooking should be taken seriously. Then the child feels himself a full member of the family, he is proud of his need. It is much more interesting for him to mess around with his mother in the kitchen than to sit in a crouch with her and look at the pictures in the book. Do you only girls do? Both girls and boys! If we help to grow a generation of men who will gladly cook their loved ones, we will be happy! With your husband you also have an "edible community"? Oh yeah! And I remember: we sit with Chaba in a Thai restaurant, eat rice noodles with shrimps and fresh tomatoes, he tells me how his grandmother prepares pork ribs with sauerkraut, and suddenly - click! - in me as if some kind of light is lit: "This is it!". Does Chaba know how to cook?
Of course! He grew up in a small Transcarpathian village on the very border with Hungary, but he has a terrific style in food. He fantasically knows how to treat! Chaba makes amazing tiny sandwiches - black bread, a slice of Parma ham and a slice of fresh sweet green pepper. It is wonderful! Is it important for you that the man understands you? That's no! I do not seek understanding from men! Previously, I was looking, then I was terribly disappointed when I did not find it, and I realized: they need to find some other application in their life. They are completely different! And what do you expect from a life partner? Probably ... Yes, the props! It should be for me a roof - that I was not carried away somewhere up, by the wall behind - that I felt security, and the foundation - that I could feel the ground under my feet. Does this mean that you think that it is the man who must earn money and provide for the family?
For us, this is a topical issue now ... The fact is that due to objective reasons, Chaba is now working less, accordingly, his earnings have become less ... He tolerates it with difficulty, but for me this is not a problem. I always said and I say: the one who gets it at the moment should make money. But in the family, everyone should be successful! And the money is nothing to do with it. Once my friend said to me: "Malakhov, well, you understand - you will be successful in any endeavor!" And indeed it is! Your success depends on your inner feelings. All my achievements for me are like drops of cherry jam: they fall into a cup, and the water turns pink. And what is still important for mutual understanding? You know, in my opinion, in many cases, we, women, in our personal lives are hampered by our fussiness. We always hurry things, we want something from men, we push them to something ... How often I almost cried: oh, if I did not say anything then, or if I did not do it then ... I remember , Chaba and I have already met seriously. So seriously that I was eight months pregnant and started to get a little nervous, ask him: "Darling, are you actually going to talk to my father?" So to say, ask my hand for him? "
And Chaba answers me: "When I'm ready, I will do it." Oh, how angry I was! Then he waited until I calmed down, and said: "I'm now busy making a ring for you with a jeweler." So I myself spoiled the surprise, which he prepared for me ... And then I realized: we women need to be able to wait. Wait until the men are ripe for action, and do not fret, do not fuss. Dasha, you are not only a culinary guru, but also an actress. How do you manage to find a balance between the "high" art of the theater and the "low" issues of the kitchen? For example, it's hard for me to imagine how to fry the little ones in the morning, and to play Ophelia in the evening .... Maybe I'll surprise you, but all Ophelia's fried bits. All! This I authoritatively declare to you as a child of the theater, who grew up behind the scenes! My mother, for example, could perfectly combine everything, why it can not work out for me? Maybe because I played Desdemona in 15 years, I do not have such a pathetic attitude to my role in the theater? I am the daughter of my parents, the minister of the theater. How ... Like the one, for example, an electrician who has everything in his family - grandfather, father, brothers - electricians. I do not have the goal of twisting as many bulbs as possible or making them the largest in the world - it's enough for me that my "light bulbs" burn well. It seems that you can not blame you for excessive patheticity ...
And you just noticed it? In my wardrobe, "pop" things, bought under the mood, and expensive, from well-known designers hang quite quietly next to each other. Right now they sew me a fur coat from some absolutely unique Baikal fox. But this dress I bought in Buenos Aires, and it is in terms of our money about a hundred hryvnia. The main thing is that the thing should bring joy. And in life the same way. How many times have I and Chabae planned to rest "as expected"! We stay in a five-star hotel in the center of Budapest, relax, go for a walk, in a word, everything is ceremoniously noble. Going home, we promise each other: "No shopping!" We pass the fair, I ask to stop "for a minute" and - that's all! An hour later the whole car is packed with cans of paprika, spices, souvenirs, gifts for friends ... Chaba laughs: "We are gypsies!" But we are happy, and what can be more important than this?
How do you all manage?
Previously, I was incredibly disorganized, and only my husband taught me to distinguish important from unimportant and not to bother with unimportant. And what is important for you in life?
I do not strive for overdelivery - I like to live with taste every day. I have a feeling: soon in my life there will be changes. There will be new projects, books, more children ... There are many interesting things in life, it goes the way it should go, and do not rush it.
We cook with Dasha Malakhova, whose culinary diary is discussed throughout Ukraine.
Matyash and our beloved "colored" ravioli will need: half a glass of carrot and beetroot fresh, packing of frozen spinach, salmon fillet, onion, flour, salt, pepper, dill. We pour fresh on bowls, in the third we spread the crushed spinach. Add the flour to each of them and knead the dough. Fillet of salmon is ground in a blender along with onion and dill, salt and pepper. Roll out the dough, cut out the circles, lay out the mince, sculpt the dumplings and cook in salted water. In the finished dumplings we add butter and a little pepper.
How to develop your style in clothes
When I was studying and working in England, I noticed that they are humorous there and are not afraid to be themselves. Returning from England, I was the first in Kiev to wear leggings, colored sneakers, all sorts of cool hats-gloves-gloves. And set the trend!
How to cook with pleasure for Dasha
Find two or three favorite dishes and master them perfectly. And then ... just include imagination - every time make any changes. It will turn out both diversely and tirelessly.
How to be slim
The most important thing is a feeling of comfort in your own body. I was pushed to lose weight by the fact that I somehow became heavy, there were problems with digestion. We with the dietician have developed the program "start of a metabolism": vegetables in priority, it is a little fiber, it is a little carbohydrates. Result: after 2 months - minus 7 kg! But the guarantee of harmony is a system of healthy nutrition.