Category: Russia

This recipe will allow you to make one of the iconic candies that Soviets and now Russians love. It is very simple, it lasts forever on the shelf and variations of this candy can be found in every store across Russia…

The best made candy is what you make yourself and you will find no easier candy to make…

Ingredients:

• 4 oz real butter
• 4 oz sugar
• 1 oz real honey
• 14 oz sweet condensed milk

Lets Make:

1. Mix butter and sugar in a sauce pan, on low heat. Stir until the butter melts and the mixture becomes well mixed…

2. Now add the honey and all of the condensed milk. Stir continually and bring the mixture to a boil on medium heat…

3. Then turn the heat back to low and cook the mixture for 10-15 minutes or until it becomes a deep brown color.

4. Important: Stir continuously to avoid burning at the bottom of the pot. Keep stirring please…

5. Have already ready: Grease the mold that you’ll pour your caramel into, (preferably a glass one). Pour the mixture into the mold once it’s done and brown, and let cool completely…

6. When cooled remove from the mold….Cut the caramel into tiny squares and wrap each in a wax paper….if you desire to do it the Soviet way…

The candies are very popular, just drop one in a cup of hot tea. It does not melt fast at all and it will flavor your tea to the last sip…

WtR

Russian candy or Russian chocolate (Finnish: kinuski; Russian: ириски-тянучки iriski-tyanuchki) is a very sweet toffee-like dessert made by carefully heating equal amounts of milk or cream and sugar.

Source: Russian candy – Wikipedia

With all the US metal tubs floating in the Persian Gulf you would think one of them would spot a swarm of cruise missiles coming from Iran?

Saudi Arabia better rethink its defense partner…

Seriously folks: If our ships cannot detect these missiles? How are the ships going to detect these missiles when they come for our ships? You cannot fight what you do not see…

What the Saudi report basically says is that “the weaponry could’ve been supplied, and probably was, by Iran in exactly the same way that [the UK] and others have supplied arms to Saudi Arabia, which had been used in this four-year war against Yemen,” Matthew Gordon-Banks, former British MP and senior research fellow at the UK Defense Academy, told RT.

Source: Riyadh gave NO PROOF Tehran launched oil-plant attack – but still ‘expects US to do its dirty work for them’ — RT World News

By that standard: All the weapons that the US supplies to half the world. Means we are complacent in war crimes and should be condemned also!

Better yet: The US better rethink what will happen if they have all their warships sunk in the Persian Gulf…

We (US ships) never saw these missiles? We won’t see them when they come for us…

WtR

PS: Yes I know cruise missiles fly below radar! Then we better get better radar or quit messing with the locals around the world…

The steam heating lines are fired up and all the ventilation shafts fog when it is cold…

+ 6 this morning and it looks like it could even freeze next week. Not a hard freeze, but below zero regardless…

I love winter, but I need to get to the Tiny Russian Village before the snow hits…

WtR

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Saudi Arabia should buy Russian air defense systems to protect its oil facilities from drone attacks, pointing to Iran and Turkey, who operate S-300 and S-400 missiles, respectively. “Saudi Arabia needs to make a smart decision, as Iran did by buying our S-300, and as Mr. Erdogan did by deciding to buy the most advanced S-400 Triumph air defense systems from Russia,” Putin told reporters in Ankara on Monday. “These kinds of systems are capable of defending a

Source: Putin to Saudi Arabia: Our air defenses can protect you, like they do Turkey and Iran — RT World News

The level of trolling of Putin reaches a new high, joking that #SaudiArabia should buy the same S-300 anti-missile defense system that Moscow already sold to Tehran (amid the laughter of Iranian officials, including President Rouhani) | #OOTT #oil #Iran #Russia pic.twitter.com/EcpTG5heAa

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) September 16, 2019

But he really means that Russian will sell the S-400’s to Saudi Arabia….he just could not resist a dig at America…

The American defense systems are looking very bad right now in the worlds eyes…

WtR

Interesting jam made from pine, cedar, or fir cones is a traditional Soviet treat (Georgia, Siberia and the Caucasus is predominant spots to use this Varenye) and they say it is good for your health. Sometimes it’s called pine honey because of its texture (if made thick). To make this, you need young green pine cones. They usually collect them in May and or June at the latest. Cones should be soft, easily punctured with a nail, and no more than two or three centimeters in length…

How to make Pine Cone Jam:

For one liter and or about a quart of varenye you only need 0.5 kilo of cones (20-30)…

Cone and sugar ratio 1:1 (half kilo of sugar to half kilo of green pine cones)…

Wash the cones carefully in hot water and place in a stainless steel pan. Why stainless steel? They will ruin enamel/aluminum pots when boiling, as they are full of lots of resin…

Add the sugar and bring to a boil. Do not add water, unless you like thinner jam…

Then cool until at a warm safe to touch the pan temperature…

And repeat the process three times….until the cones change color to dark brown and become very soft and a toothpick will go right through them..

You can add lemon, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and or other spices, as well as any type of berry fruit. Like blackberries, raspberries and even gooseberries. To change the flavor…

Canning is as normal for any jams you would can and or just refrigerate the liter of jam in a glass jar and eat it within two weeks…

It is really very good, for those making faces at why would anyone eat Pine Cone Jam (Varenye)?

WtR

PS: Varenye or Varenya is a name used for any popular whole-fruit preserve. It is a term used commonly in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)…

Rule of threes people:

• 3 mins without air.
• 3 hours without shelter (mainly in cold climate).
• 3 days without water.
• 3 weeks without food.

I was taught this by my grandparents…

You should learn it and understand why you need to know it…

WtR

I have to have some more spot removals, but the ones I had removed are healing and we are waiting for test results for another spot that was on my arm. We will know this week and then have what needs to be done done. I have had a bad week…

I broke another toe. I will have to get my act together and wear slipper/shoes all the time in the house. Now I am nursing two broken toes and a spot on a private area that had to be removed. Ouch is all I will say and at least everything is healing good and fast…

Therefore I have not walked as much as I like to…

But this morning I walked already 5000 steps and maybe later I will walk again. I have to be careful and take it easy…

Svetochka is at her sons and helping to take care of the new baby and the three year old boy. Sveta is a good babushka and cares a bunch for her grandkids…

We have to get to the Tiny Russian Village soon. Fall is in full swing, the leaves are all dropping and we are already in single digit temperatures in the day. I suspect night will be freezing in less than two weeks. Winter is here and I can feel Old Man Winter as he stretches his arms and legs to wake up…

I have to get to TRV and winterize the two homes. I need a week, but maybe I can squeeze two weeks out before the snow and winds hit. Winter comes fast in Moscow…

These are just thoughts for today and time always moves faster than I am able to. But regardless, I have to get to TRV…

WtR

Just when you though the USA cannot stoop any lower! Looks like we are wanting to be number one in death also…

President Donald Trump has gone plum nuts (Or he definitely is not in charge of anything!). He wants one of the biggest and most dangerous warmongers to take the National Security Advisor spot. The mentor to Bolton. We removed the frying pan called Bolton and now will sit directly in the fire. I guess it makes sense if you hate the world like Charles Kupperman does…

Kupperman, appointed to his new post on Tuesday after Trump fired his John Bolton from the job, argued it was possible to win a nuclear war “in the classical sense,” and that the notion of total destruction stemming from such a superpower conflict was inaccurate. He said that in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the U.S. as opposed to 150 million, the nation could then emerge as the stronger side and prevail in its objectives.

His argument was that with enough planning and civil defense measures, such as “a certain layer of dirt and some reinforced construction materials,” the effects of a nuclear war could be limited and that U.S. would be able to fairly quickly rebuild itself after an all-out conflict with the then-Soviet Union.

Source: Trump’s Acting National Security Adviser Said Nuclear War With USSR Was Winnable | HuffPost

America is and has been for a long time a Psychopathic Country…. and no one who is called “The President of the USA” is in charge…

WtR

PS: Charles Kupperman, Bolton’s Acting Replacement, Is Jewish

Surprise Surprise Surprise…

A Russian Dressing

You will find that while Russians are not big spicy eaters. They seem to have an affection for horseradish in sauces. Thirteen years ago I tried a Russian mustard and just about fried my mouth. It was pure horseradish, but I have grown use to it now. It can be found very thick and very spicy in Russia. Some of the most volatile comes in metal squeeze tubes. Just like an old toothpaste tube…

1/2 cup plain yogurt
1 cup real mayonnaise
1/2 cup smashed and crushed tomatoes, drain liquid produced…
2 tsp well drained horseradish from a jar and or crush and smash fresh horseradish until a paste…

In a small bowl combine/mix and or whip it very good the yogurt, real mayonnaise, real tomatoes and horseradish…
Put in fridge all night…
Put on chicken, pork, beef and whatever you cook as a sauce at the dinner table…

It is hot and if you want it hotter add more horseradish and or less for the weaker in tastes. If you want it runnier keep the tomato juice produced into the finished product. If you really want it hot keep the juice from the jarred horseradish and mix it in also…

I love it with jalapenos ground up in it…

WtR

I stopped and scratched my head when I saw the sign…

I took a picture and then came home to see if my brain had messed up the name of the Taco place?

No, I was right, it is called Taco Tico in America and was born in Kentucky during the 70’s….I have eaten several times at a Taco Tico. Better than Taco Bell in my opinion…

But now I have to hunt down this place in our town here in Russia. I will take Sveta with me, for the sign says under the Tico Taco words, that it is Mexican food…

My my how things change as time goes by…

77 rubles for a burger! ($1.18 as of this second.) I never saw Taco Tico serve burgers? But then again this is Tico Taco…

Oh My!

WtR