Windows to Russia

Russian Fruit Cake recipe: Mazurka fruit cake… That dreaded fruit cake. Made by everyone’s favorite and or not so favorite aunt….I have seen fruit cakes last for twenty years and get passed around as if they are deadly treats and no one wants them and then I have seen people eat fruit cake like it […]

Tests done, now see the doctors… Russian Health Care… I came to Russia and being from the USA, I never thought much about why it was wrong to pay such exuberant medical costs and fees, just to try to stay healthy… I always heard about European healthcare and healthcare from Mexico and Canada. Cost is […]

TOKYO The current leader in 2019 calendar sales at a popular chain store in Japan is not a fresh-faced young idol, nor is it a sexy heart-throb actor. Rather, Vladimir Putin, the 66-year-old president of Russia, takes the cake in that category. That’s right, the very same exercise buff that also has claim to a […]

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All the Russian jokes on the internet are tactical, The strategic jokes are in the ICBMs like fortune cookies… WtR

Tomorrow I will write a post on this last round of tests… I do not feel good enough to write much today and that is that… WtR

Something that I was disappointed by when I first came to Russia was the lack of peanut butter….seriously, I missed my peanut butter and when we found it….it was expensive… I remember 900 plus rubles and that was when the exchange was 25 to 1 with dollars. Now it 65 to 1 it is 134 […]

Russians love Bears and they will eat them also if given a chance….How about this Christmas having Roasted Bear Meat? Roast Bear recipe… Ingredients Bear Meat: 1000 g (1 kilo) bear meat cut into 10, 100 gram sections… 10 ea pork belly lard pieces… 1 tbsp butter… Marinade (see the recipe of Marinade for Bear […]

“Our country is, as they say, destined by the heavens to feed the whole planet. And we’ll try and do that,” Medvedev told journalists of Russian TV channels in a major interview aired on Thursday. Russia’s grain exports surge more than 54% this year Apart from being the country’s “destiny,” the foods plainly make “nice […]

Kutya is a sweet whole grained pudding and is especially popular around the holiday times in Russia. My suggestion is to make this treat several days ahead of time, as it get better with age in the refrigerator and it will last up to two weeks if kept cold… It is a food that is […]