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I walked by it the first time. Stopped a few hundred meters away and went back. It struck a reaction within me…
Remember it is Russia and English is not their language….someone has the correct idea…
End War
Become Peace
If only that could become true…
WtR
Hmm…
Makes you wonder about such antics and yet, here they are in our faces and in full view…
Colonialism is a hardcore reality even in this day and age…
WtR
God help us to stop the Government of the USA from destroying the world…
According to the American president, the US has a vast amount of “super-fast missiles”, and the country needs them because both Moscow and Beijing possess similar weapons.
“We have the super-fast missiles — tremendous number of the super-fast. We call them ‘super-fast,’ where they’re four, five, six, and even seven times faster than an ordinary missile”, Trump noted.
Source: Trump Says Wants to Create World’s Strongest Nuclear Force – Sputnik International
Blame it on Obama, just like Obama blamed everything on Bush…
“We need that because, again, Russia has some. I won’t tell you how they got it. They got it, supposedly, from plans from the Obama administration when we weren’t doing it. And that’s too bad. That’s not good. But that’s how it happened. And China, as you know, is doing it”. Says Trump…
My how Trump is a perfect fit for the childish government of the USA. That damn playground sandbox is getting kinda lonely is it not?
WtR
Misguided within our self-imposed boundaries of elite anthropocentric thinking. Voguish man is evinced in a belief that manifested progress within our modern life is absolutely, “technology”…
Alas: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music, performing are no longer necessary to being a, “self-imposed god”…
Just a smartphone, a talisman in its own right, with which it elevates you to heights of grandiose…
WtR
Someone told me that this drink is called a “Poor Man’s Drink” because of the small number and easily obtained ingredients that are required. I have said that eggs are plentiful in Russia in past recipes and as is sugar, flour dark bread, butter and other items used here. It also is high in protein and calories which makes it a great food for the long winters in Russia…
In fact the name is famous in Russia and they even have a fantastic restaurant named after this combinations of words. Gogol-Mogol. The recipes are plentiful and the reasons for the recipes are just as prevalent. I think it all boils down to availability of ingredients and the ease of production. Even children make these recipes all the time…
How about a story?
A legend says that once upon a time there lived a man by the name of Gogel. He sang in a band in a village of Mogol. A village that is located in Russia. One day Gogel caught a sickness like a cold, in his throat and his beautiful voice was silenced and he lost his job as a singer. Whatever he tried to do to recover his voice, nothing helped. Then an old remedy of folklore was given to him by friends. It was made up of raw eggs and at the time wine. Gogel seeing a good thing also mixed the eggs with sugar to allow it to swallow better and his voice got better right away. The remedy helped and Gogel proclaimed it a miracle cure for the common cold. It got the name Gogol-Mogol…
So no matter what the reason you make Gogol-Mogol, you can be rest assured that you are not alone in having it and that it will make you health, wealthy and wise. Just as Gogol was…
Lets make a Gogol-Mogol – here are two separate recipes to use and as you see there is many variations…
Ingredients as a non-sweet drink/solid:
3-6 fresh eggs
2-4 pieces of black bread
1 pinch each of salt and pepperMethod:
Wash the eggs thoroughly. Break the eggs into a bowl. Wire whisk vigorously until almost foamy. Add salt and pepper then mix again, until it is foamy. Pour in a tall glass with a long spoon, with crumbled chunks of black bread dropped into the foamy egg mix. Eat with the spoon and add bread as necessary until all gone…
Or:
This is how some Russians make it as a sweet drink:
In a bowl beat two raw eggs with a tablespoon full of honey. Mix vigorously until it’ is foamy, with a wire whip. In a sauce pan heat half cup of milk with a tablespoon of real butter. Butter should melt completely. Milk should be very hot, but not scorched. Pour hot milk and melted butter into a large cup with the whipped foamy egg and honey. Stir quickly to mix well as you mix the ingredients in the cup…Drink, while it is hot, by sips. You’ll feel the cure spreading inside you at a vigorous pace. Go to bed and in the morning you’ll feel much better…
No matter how you make it and for what reason that you make it. Gogol-Mogol is considered good for you and healthy…
I know raw eggs?
Well real eggnog is made of the same…
WtR
Today lets make Russian Style Chuk-Chuk: These fried, honey-coated fingers from Windows to Russia make a great way to satisfy any sweet desires – Russian style! (The origin of this recipe comes from Tatar.)
Children young and old love Chuk-Chuk and it can be bought at most any store in Russia. But the best Chuk-Chuk is home made from natural ingredients. So lets make some delicious Chuk-Chuk today…
Chuk-Chuk Strip Ingredients:
* 4 Eggs
* 2 – 3 tbsp Sugar (I use 3 tbsp of powdered sugar)
* 2 tsp Butter
* 1/3 tsp Salt
* 60ml Milk
* 500g plain flour
Ingredients for the Syrup Coating:
* 1 1/2 cups Honey
* 4 tsp Sugar
Mixing and Cooking:
1. Blend eggs, sugar, butter, salt, milk and flour and knead until the mixture forms a smooth dough.
2. Leave the dough to rest for 30 to 40 minutes.
3. After resting the dough: Roll out dough into a thin layer with a rolling pin and cut into strips about 2 -3cm in length and 1 cm in width.
4. Place the honey and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Continue to cook until the mixture thickens and turns an amber caramel color. (Do not over cook and burn. Sugar and especially honey will burn easy. A good way to heat the syrup is in a double sauce pan. With water in lower sauce pan.)
5. Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat and then fry the strips you made earlier for about 5 minutes, until golden brown. (Drain oil off on kitchen paper on a plate.)
6. Once drained of excess oil, dip the strips into the hot syrup you just made.
7. Arrange in piles on a serving plate.
8. Serve immediately and say – Yummy!
WtR
Hard to image that there are millions and millions of people in my way all the time… (Moscow, Russia) – I went deep into what is called the National Park (Elk Island)…
Just to go get groceries is like a bunch easier if you take a stick to beat a path through the people to get there. It drives me crazy at times, yet even in all these people, if you are willing to walk, you can find a tidbit of nirvana!
But I did find dogs, cats, birds and tons of squirrels….it is one humongous Federal Reserve….oh, and one guy skiing naked (Yes, butt stark naked)! Wish I had my camera ready….but he was not really a pleasant sight to see. 🙁
It was also -10 below zero as I walked. Russians are crazy…
33,000 steps and 27 kilometers total….after look at the map, I realized I was less than 5 kilometers away from Moscow’s famous MKAD (МКАД) ring road…
Now time to get to work and be productive…
WtR
Even though the dentist lady doctor beat me up. I still felt good enough to walk 18 kilometers. It got real nasty weather wise before I got home…
Over three hours of walking and gawking…
My goal is to get able to walk 25 kilometers every morning. My heart needs it and my sweet pea needs it to have me stay alive for many years to come. My diabetes needs it also…
Finally got my root canal done. Cost us about 15,000 + rubles and I am still alive. Big Bears like me do not like dentists and my sweetie has to drag me into the dentist office…
They did a very good job. They best job at a dentist I have ever had…
WtR
You really can’t make this stuff up, you can predict it though, but really you cannot understand the stupidity of how they continue with the, “Russia Did It” song and dance…
A Texas congresswoman has suggested that Russians were responsible for the problems with the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucus app and suggested the party call in the FBI to investigate. How did this take so long? Rep. Sheila Jackson (D) called on Iowa Democrats to bring the FBI in to investigate Russian involvement in the malfunctioning of the vote-reporting app that threw the first vote of the 2020 election season into disarray. She made the comment during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI over site…
Well Trump called it…
When will the Democrats start blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the Great State of Iowa?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2020
Sheila Jackson of Texas, now that is the cream of the crop!
WtR
Okay I know that this is Georgian and not Russian! But OMG it is so good and so bad for you that I had to put it in the recipes. Russians love it and you can find variants of it as you travel Russia and Ukraine, but no one makes it like I have seen it done in Georgia and that is so good that it is sinful…
Lets try to make a Khachapuri…
Serves: 4 – Total time: 1 hr 30 min – Prep time: easy – Cooking time – long…
Dough:
1 1/4 cups yogurt (full of fat)
1 egg
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups wheat flour
Filling:
9 oz mozzarella cheese
9 oz cream cheese
1 egg
1 1/2 tbsp butter
salt (taste)
butter (for frying)
Lets Make:
Make a smooth kneaded dough out of the dough ingredients. Use as much flour as needed to keep dough light without it sticking to your hands…
Set the dough aside to rest for 30 or 40 minutes…
Next Prepare the filling. Grate the mozzarella and then mix with the cream cheese. Add the butter and process into a smooth, glutinous mixture using either a hand mixer or a wooden spoon.
Season with salt, if needed, and divide into 4 balls.
Then shape the resting dough into 4 balls and roll these out to form 8 inch circles or like the Georgians like to do, ovals.
Put the cheese filling balls into each dough circle and bring the edges of the dough circle up as a bowl. Crack and egg on top inside the bowl. They pinch the ends to make the bowl have strength…
Use a cast iron skillet and pour melted butter into the bottom. Lay the uncooked Khachapuri in the skillet and put in a medium oven, on center rack… (I toss an extra chunk of butter in to help the pan fry effect.)
Think of Pizza Hut Pan Pizza when you do this. The Khachapuri pan fry’s and bakes at the same time…
Takes about 25 to 30 minutes to oven fry. Serve hot or at room temperature…
The recipe makes 4, but it is hard to get 4 in the oven so do the best you can, I do promise that everyone will love these delights and they will bug you time and time again to make them. They are great for breakfast as well as dinner. They can be made on a sheet pan also and they even can be skillet fried on a stove if desired. Experiment with seasonings and you will find the correct combination that makes your family scream for more…
An old Blodgett oven is the perfect oven to bake these in…
Yummy, now this is a meal…
Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…