[jwplayer mediaid=”45495″] I love it and it looks some like square Dancing that I use to do when I was little. Then some of it is pretty free wheeling. We use to all gather in the barn and dance and dance and dance… No music as it looks like it was filmed before they could […]
Black Radish and Honey… (Редька с медом от кашля) 1. Look for a big black radish, they grow huge. Scrub the radish and make sure it is clean on the outside and no rot. Cut the top off a quarter of the way down, then dig a deep hole down the middle. This hole is […]
Andronikov Monastery is a former monastery on the left bank of the Yauza River in Moscow, and containing the oldest existing original building in Moscow. It is home to Andrei Rublev the most famous monk of this abbey… The story goes: In the 14th century, a very high ranking church official named Alexei found himself […]
I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and was remembering the pictures that I took of one crazy looking Squirrel, a Ukraine Squirrel… Now in America you have Squirrels, but they do not have these ears. This is one wild looking Squirrel and they look like this in Russia also. These photos were taken […]
A popular Russian/Georgian/Ukraine food that most likely started in Georgia. The Chebureki consist of a thin layer of dough and a ground meat filling, then deep-fried in a skillet of real butter. I call them a meat filled turnover as they are made the same, except the filling is meat and sometimes cheese, instead of […]
I Decry Minibuses in Russia… I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and thinking about one of my articles from many years ago. The article was having issues and it was time to revamp it.It is a subject that makes my blood boil as I drive around Moscow. This article is about the real […]
Big Mac price: I have found it interesting and I have also found it very important. The price of a Big Mac in Russia is much less than what you will pay in America. Now why is that? The burger is exactly the same. I mean exactly the same and having been a regional manager […]
The Russian Krendl Bread is a bread that is not exactly easy to make and that puts off the doers, so the eaters never get this bread very often. Russians serve this at the holidays and during the other religious times. It is rich and delicious… Lets make a Russian Krendl and I think that […]
I wrote this post and then hesitated a few days. I decided to post it anyway! The reason I hesitated was because years ago, Ukraine blocked my website, when I wrote about interesting happenings there. It took me two years (many e-mails and a lot of work) to get my site unblocked in Ukraine and […]