Hello all. Tonight for dinner, I threw some water, rice, and a
chicken breast in pan to cook. About halfway through the rice
cooking, I threw in some (all finely diced or minced) carrots, celery,
potatoes, mushrooms, garlic, and onion. Also, a bay leaf. After it
was done, I finely chopped the now-cooked chicken breast, mixed it
back in with the other stuff, and stuffed the mixture in warm pocket
bread. It was supposed to be kind of a quickie budget piroshky or
something like that.

Anyhow, my question revolves around suggested spicing. I added some
chicken base, salt, pepper, and curry seasoning to this batch, but it
just seemed a little blandish or something.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could have used? What are
typical Russian spices? Heck, what do you call the area that's kind
of southwestern Russia? Asian Minor? The Near East? Anyhow...
yeah... typical of that region.

Thanks,

Rick