Chef Zhenya
@chefzhenya
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the soup daddy of twitter, 20 years in the kitchen - chef, CEO & shareholder based in Kyiv, MFA charity founder & volunteer, worked/lived/studied in Boston & LA
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‼️ urgent ‼️
Calling on all
#NAFO
#NAFOfellas
out there! Me and
@MagicFoodArmy
need your support right now for an important mission.
We’re expanding and to do that we need two more refrigerator chambers (and if possible a 30kWt generator as an extra).
To achieve that goal i
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Last post for today. One of our units is leaving for assignment. I’m experimenting with food that can last a up to one week, can be easily transported in large quantities, is easily prepared, tastes good and has balance. First try: half a chicken, taters, beans, broccoli, sprouts
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Friday lunch for the front lines. Ready to eat pork chop, boiled taters and butter, roasted mushrooms, glazed carrots and broccoli.
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Exactly 1 year ago I woke up and told all my employees that we will open all our restaurants on schedule. There was no point in panicking, this was the best cours of action and I assured everyone that I’m not leaving Kyiv even if this turns into partisan war.
We still fight back
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Friday night. Boys just came back from work. We call it “work” because it is their job to defend our country. A service to our people much like any cooks service to nourish them. Many of you asked what’s their favorite? Well - mostly they ask for BBQ and burgers. And we deliver)
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Reinforcements arrived right on time. Today we rotate with my cooks from Kyiv. Back home for two weeks to setup our HQ for international volunteers. We don’t rest until 100% of our country is liberated and we return all our citizens who were imprisoned and sent away by moskovits
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1/ Soup centric? SOUP CENTRIC?!! You wanna see real soup centric ?! Oh yeah?! I’LL SHOW YOU HOW SERIOUS WE ARE ABOUT SOUP! :)
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Tonight i leave you with this. This is what 90% of our field kitchens look like. Powered with FIREWOOD. I am not joking. If there is one thing i plan to do in the next five years is get make sure all this junk is never used by future generations of Ukrainian warriors and chefs.
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I must cook a feast for this guy.
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Your inner peace on twitter can be easily achieved by option available to everyone.
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70 250 dead moskovit soldiers. Have a drink to this, it is Saturday. Have two ;)
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My daughter Frejya turns 8 today. I’ll never forgive invaders 4 having to ask my military friends to send an armd convoy in the middle of the night to evacuate her with her brother and her mom because ruzzian helicopters were being destroyed 2km away from their home. She safe now
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Meet our new minister of education who is currently serving in the military. Very cool and extremely smart guy who published over 250 academic papers. Also we probably gonna experience a new wave of beard trends :)
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>THE BORSCH MAKING THREAD<
I this thread I am going to post everything you need to know to make borsch at home. What is even more important - I will explain details about every ingredient of the soup. It will take 48 hours. After I’m done you’ll be able to creat your own recipe!
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We are coming to take whats ours, to free our land and people:
May my arm be strong
to cut down my enemies
May my eye be clear
to cut down my enemies
May my weapon be accurate
to cut down my enemies
Let my will be STEEL
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The return of breakfasts at the base: eggs sunny side up, proper polish sausage with herbs, bread, gouda, feta, butter 82,5% unsalted, cottage cheese with granola, fruit & nuts from previous tweet.
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Really proud of this one: mashed taters with a dollop of parsley-garlic-parmesan-butter, broccoli&green beans, my take on gumbo made extra thick with shrimp, calamari, mussels, tilapia, chicken and Vienna sausage.
Guys never had gumbo before so they called it « that protein
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As temperatures drop the power outages increase in frequency and time. Luckily we can adapt and serve breakfast to go for boys leaving on missions: fruit salad, cottage cheese, carpathian yogurt, peanuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, granola and a piece of cherry pie. Light > dark
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Oh great! Air alert sirens in Kyiv. If i die today you have to know it was because i was editing a borsh making video for all of you. I can’t stop now and not finish them so this is my sacrifice)
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10k thank you will be my video recipe for borsch with step by step instructions and measures ;)
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Busy today. Calculated how much our unit consumes in food products and it was something line 6,5$/day per soldier for 3 meals and snacks. How much is it in other countries militaries?
Also we’re sending these gas stoves with ovens to the cooks I know in the armed forces and Azov
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Cooking food when you know 6 nuclear reactors right next to you are being handled by incompetent homicidal morons is like twice as FUN…
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My message to ALL VOLUNTEERS who want to come to the FRONT LINES:
1. No matter what you heard about the FRONT LINE work, no mater what kind of “front line kitchens” you have been volunteering in, WITH ME you will be AT THE FRONT FUCKING LINE! With everything that comes along:
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As I am approaching 7k followers i want to ask all to retweet my msg. I'm looking for a motivated person to become part of my charity fund team. I truly believe that international volunteers will play a kew role in rebuilding Ukraine and I need a manager willing to relocate here.
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I walk out for a smoke at the end of my shift, light up a mini cigar and pour an old colins glass of Turkey 101 bourbon on a single piece of ice. Take a drag and listen to artillery and MLRS launches that break the silence and penetrate the pitch black darkness of the horizon.
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For centuries Ruzzia has been using UKRAINIAN warriors to fight their wars. NO MORE. The biggest AND THE LAST mistake ruzzia did was trying to invade our country in the 21st century. Information manipulation is beyond their reach in the modern age. They are weak and they are
Wonderful! Ukrainian activists have hacked into security cameras across Russia and broadcast a speech by President Zelenskyy
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I’m tired of tweeting about ruzzias atrocities. Truth be told, i didn’t even wake up during the attack tonight. I stopped waking up even in Zaporizhzhya when rockets fall near our base 30km from the tranches… instead i just double my efforts and keep working. Good meals for all
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Ось так виглядає фіналізована версія розробленої страви. Це майбутнє ЗСУ.
Приготування -> Шокове Охолодження -> Порціонуванн при +2С -> Зберігання та Логістика при +2С -> Все що треба бойовій групі це холодос і мікрохвильовка
Проектуємо цех який зможе хуярить 10 000 таких
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One last look at my home town before I go back to the front. I received some fcuked up news. If true, when I resurface here I’ll have to ask for donations again … i’m so fcukin’ tired of this shit
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Magic food army
- we cook food
- we buy and deliver MREs
- we run supplies to the front lines
- we plan for future AFTER the war
- we welcome international volunteers
- we make nutrition better every day
- we are growing
- we will win
Thank you for your support
DM for paypal
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I made hummus, cous cous and battered fried fish for dinner. Most food was very unusual for my guys but they trust me and try it anyway… funny how going into battle where you don’t really know if you live or die is less scary for them than trying new food )
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Some boys arrived unannounced this morning. Had to come up with something ont the fly.
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Another volunteer arrived!
@FischkoppNorth
arrived from the mountains of Germany to stay with us for next 3 months! Give her a follow and check her in action on our patreon
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First night on the new kitchen. Power’s out but it doesn’t stop our feast!
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Hit 8k followers
+262$ for the generator 4738$ to go
thats like 0.60$ from everyone
Tired
Also I hate making photo prof with soldiers
Can u tell?)
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No matter how many tanks we destroyed, enemies killed, territories liberated, medals for bravery received - when we sit at the table the third toast always goes out for those we have lost, the sadness of every day we fight which would be unbearable had we not have a purpose.
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Breakfast at the base: tea, grapes, cheddar on toast, fries, sausages, ketchup, eggs and the most popular cookie among our fighters) it’s called “ushko” meaning the ear, made with lots of butter. This is the first cookie we usually run out of haha)
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Breakfast at the base. Cereal with plant based milk, pears, tangerines, banana, cookies, the bread I baked earlier, butter, sausage, cookies and OJ.
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Kind of proud of this one. Now i need to mass produce it bu thousands…
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1/3 As you may have noticed I consider myself a master soup maker and here are two bowls I considered my masterpieces. One is a noodle soup the other noodles that happen to be in a soup. Both are completely different but oh so delicious. Here is a feast for your eyes my centrists
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My favourite quote of todays soup centric extravaganza: "Soup is for poor people. I know cooks aren’t the smartest people but holy shit."
We got over 100k views in 9 hours. Love all your soup recipes - bring me more you poor poor people of twitter. Love and hugs. обняв припідняв
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Breakfast on the base: cottage cheese, fruit salad with walnuts&almonds, cookies, eggs, cold pork roast, gouda, bread&butter, coffee
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Air alert sirens in Kyiv.
Friday lunch for the front lines in Zaporizhzhya will be on schedule.
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I am speechless
#Fellas
i have no speech) also thank you
@MriyaReport
@MriyaAid
and all
#NAFO
#NAFOfellas
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Fcuk i forgot how many people I feed in Kyiv) no rest for the wicked
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This is some SERIOUSLY good pork sent to us by farmers in Lviv thanks to the initiative of
@ne0247833
fine dining grade product. I could’t believe it when i tried it… i’m going to cook so many things right now :)
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Very important picture. 2014 I’m cooking on Maidan of Indépendance during of revolution of dignity. Watch “winter on fire” movie if you have not
@MriyaReport
@MriyaAid
#nafo
#fellas
you have to know who the
#nafochef
is. I have been here since the start and I’m not going away
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I did promise you a picture of my Ramen so here’s something better. When you come volunteering you will be spending 2weeks on base / 2weeks in kyiv. living and food is covered by our charity so you’ll be able to eat my ramen 3 times a day and basically living on top of my shop)
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Today Russians attacked my neighborhood in Kyiv (among others). This wasn’t the first time. There is a story to be told here that I think you might enjoy.
I grew up in a factory working class community. My grandmother, born in 1930s, worked on a factory close-by for 40 years. In
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Rotation tomorrow. We go out with a delicious meal as our final meal for this rotation. My cooks will be here tomorrow. I need some sleep. Bourbon, sing me a lullaby)
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You turned into a worthless tabloid
@nytimes
I’m withdrawing my subscription. If there’s anyone in charge who cares about this institutional media and wants to save whatever shreds of trust global society still has for it - think about what you’re doing. Reposting unverified
@nytimes
Just rename into New York Lies already and perhaps you should choose Cyrillic instead of latin, you are basicaly a russian mouthpiece at this point anyway.
I’ve been reading this paper for 20+ years but no more. You are garbage
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First breakfast served… the place is still in shambles. Stoves aren’t hooked up. Luckily i have a single gas burner that can be hooked straight to a propane tank. A powerful tool for dire circumstances.
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4000 people are watching me cook. Talk to me. What do you want to see? What can I show you? Are you just following me for no good reason ?!) 'cmon let's make this party fun for everyone!
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As we are preparing to take on another battalion I reaffirmed my desire to rewatch MASH with
@alanalda
I used to watch it when I was a kid and never in my life i thought i’d live through this shit. This will be first out of 7 battalions we begin to supply. Getting knives sharp…
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When our boys are leaving on a mission it’s only BAD NEWS for the invaders. We continue experimenting and improving meals in the fields. This is the setup we find is the best for mobile units.
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3/ a fully formed battalion consumes 200kg of soup EVERY DAY. A brigade of five battalions 1000kg of soup every day. Which means 365 000 kg of soup is consumed by just 1 brigade every year. Right now we have approximately 175 fully formed brigades - do the math! Soup soup soup!
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Great food is born of fineness, hard work and repetition. It’s good to taste something we have been improving for almost 7 years.
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Done. Still a lot of videos to edit for the thread but I think you’ll enjoy the end result when I’m done. Time to go to work. Tomorrow we’re going back south.
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This is everything I’m fighting against. This is a cruel joke of a new years meal from a field kitchen in the armed forces… pisses me off
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In 2010 i was sitting in US NAVY recruiters office in Long Beach, California trying to enlist in cryptology. Having scored highest in all aptitude tests my program never came up and after three years of waiting i returned home to help in the revolution.
Almost 15 years later in
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Most important day of the year. After two and a half years of fighting I feel like I’m beginning to get back in my pre war shape. Three day operation my ass. This is the third independence day of Ukraine during its’ full scale war for Independence and make no mistake we will BE
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Lunch at the base: borsch, dark bread with pork lardo and raw onions, pork schnitzel with mushroom sauce, taters, fresh veggies & pickles, some cold spiced tea with condensed milk.
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Ok2/ No Ukrainian soldier, perhaps no Ukrainian. can imagine lunch without soup. That’s what yo moma and you grandma cooked and many generations before them. This is lunch we served from a food truck on a military base. Soup is 1/3 to 1/2 of any lunch!
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You know what, I don’t see absolute no downside to making a lot of pork roast. It keeps for a very long time. it’s good in sandwiches, pasta, pizza, salads, basically anything. It’s delicious. D E L I C I O U S.
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I vote this the best sushi in Kyiv. It just superior to what Goodwine, le Silpo, Mafia family expansive restaurants and even Hilton (which does have the best price/value steak in the city). Rice so good. Fish - Delicious
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Just went shopping, got everything to film the recipe for ya’all. BONUS - a few small recipes along the way. I’ll cook chicken separately to use the meat for the soup and the carcass to make the broth, we’ll pickle the leftover beets and you’ll learn the Ukrainian way to eat it.
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My
#personoftheyear2022
is Валерій «Індєєц». He died. Lets not forget how much pre war denial there was before the invasion and who was doing the denying. Brave men stoped ruzzians as they marched at Kyiv, many of them are dead now. The dead heroes is why we are still here. =>
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We built a good life here. Since 2014 we were working hard. Ain’t noone is taking it from us. We defend it or we die trying!
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This pork shin is so good you could only eat the fat and the skin. D E L I C I O U S. We brine them for 48 hours, then slow boil in beer. Pull, mix and serve.
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Got some pics from the battalion we’re trying to improve. They are located 40km from the grey zone outside of front lone kitchen operational perimeter. This is what the starting point is for us… here they don’t have the luxury of eating the food i deliver… oy wei I need a drink
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A day in the life. Part 1.
Ruzzians landed a few S300s close enough for us to wake up from explosions at 1am. I couldn’t sleep till 4:30 and spent time on my phone answering messages and emails until i passed out. alarm woke me up at 6:00 to send out a full fridge packed with
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Finally! This is a good way to end a long and exhausting day… need to get some sleep before we go south in the morning. We’re going through 3 farms picking up 1400kg of veggies. After 2 weeks of cooking at the base. More pics for you ;)
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When the night is over and all the boys are tucked in their beds… the kitchen doesn’t stop. We cook for the days to come, prep and anticipate… the supply chain is bigger than the military. We try to have fun and maintain a level of sanity close to
@alanalda
in MASH.
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