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 rubles. Just look at the image above…
We have everything now in our stores. I mean just literally everything and the prices are fantastic. You can buy a huge loaf of bread for 7 or 8 rubles. That means a loaf of white and or black bread will run me about 12 cents…
Okay, I will take it…
WtR
PS: Yummy, creamy peanut butter spread on toasted black bread. Take a bite as the peanut butter starts to melt into the bread…
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 below…)
How To Do: Wash the meat carefully, lard (larding meat) every slice lengthwise. Place and soak in marinade for 24 hours. Once marinated, put on a oiled baking sheet to oven cook, add by brushing on a little of the leftover marinade, and brush on the melted butter and bake in preheated oven (slow cooking is best), basting with the meat juice regularly, for 3 hours total cooking time…
Pelmeni with Bear, Yummy…
Bear Marinade: Ingredients to be made the day before, to allow it to mix well…
.5 cup apple juice
.5 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 Bay Leaf
3 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
Use this recipe and also serve Bear Meat with Cheese Pelmeni…
This also makes a great crock-pot cooking dish and or oven baking crocks can be used also. Remember to lard the meat. Bears have virtually no fat in the meat and you need to add that fat to help cooking it. Bear meat is tough, so soak it overnight at least in marinade. By the way, toss a can of beer into the marinade and that will break the meat down better also/faster…
“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 export goods,” the prime minister added. Russia’s agriculture has expanded greatly over the past few years, becoming a solid and profitable industry, unlike the way it was a couple decades ago.
“Back in 1990s, the agriculture was called a ‘black hole’, where one should not invest, we were told we should not feed ourselves since we can purchase everything elsewhere,” Medvedev said. “Now, it feeds our whole country. We’ve reached the main goals regarding food security and we’re exporting grains, other goods to the world market.”
This year, Russia has enjoyed vast growth of its agricultural exports, becoming the world’s top exporter of wheat. From January through September of 2018, exports of Russia’s wheat and meslin flour expanded by 54.3 percent compared to the previous year.
The amount of food which the county imports, in its turn, continued to shrink. Imports of grains to Russia dropped by 11.1 percent during the same period. Imports of barley have suffered an enormous decline, dropping a whopping 94 percent.
I have talked about this very issue and Russia is self-sufficient and more. China, India and many more have been buying excess “GMO Free” food like crazy from Russia…
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 simple to make. but very rich in flavor, delightful odors and useful winter calories. This is a traditional holiday food that is eaten after the fasting times of the Orthodox religion…
Lets make Kutya…
Ingredients:
1 pound wheat berries (entire wheat kernel)
1 pound walnuts in the shell (or adjust down if you buy per-shelled)
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar (Honey makes a better sugar!)
1 real vanilla bean, grated (Or use fake vanilla if that is all that is available!)
Peel of 1 lemon, grated (Okay I know you have fake real lemon in the fridge! Use it sparsely!)
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup poppy-seeds (optional in the drug free America, Russian put poppy-seeds in everything!)
1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
Confectioner’s sugar as a topping
Directions:
Shell the walnuts.
Soak the wheat overnight, covered with water about 1 inch above the grain level.
Drain the wheat and refill with water until 1 inch above the grain.
Put the pot with wheat on the stove and boil it for 2-3 hours on a very low simmer. (No! Low – like I said!)
There should be just enough water after an hour in the pot to keep the wheat from burning.
Be sure that the heat is low and watch very carefully.
Add water if necessary. Keep it just above the wheat level the whole time.
Pour off water and rinse with cold water. Use colander if need be.
Pour off all liquid again after sitting 5 minutes.
Spread the wheat berries out on clean cotton kitchen towels and dry for at least 2 hours.
Place the wheat berries in a food processor or blender and grind them. Do not paste them, but grind as in a powder form.
Remove the wheat berries to a bowl and then grind the walnuts in the food processor.
Mix the walnuts with the ground wheat. (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 times with the big spoon! Okay twelve times is better…)
Add 2 cups granulated sugar, lemon peel, vanilla, raisins, poppy-seeds and apricots.
Mix by hand until a blended sticky thick mess.
Mound in a serving dish and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.
Go ahead and make some Kutya, your family will be as surprised as you are, that you can make a treat that is better than any bought at the local store…
Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2018 shows a Tu-160 strategic bomber at the Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Vargas State, Venezuela. Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers have arrived in Venezuela, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement. According to Russian news report, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez welcomed the Russian warplanes, saying that Venezuela is getting prepared to defend itself when needed and the country will do it with the friends who advocate respect-based relations between states. (Xinhua/Marcos Salgado)
“Russia’s government has sent bombers halfway around the world to Venezuela,” fumed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter. and “The Russian and Venezuelan people should see this for what it is: two corrupt governments squandering public funds, and squelching liberty and freedom while their people suffer.”
Nothing like telling a flagrant lie! Is there U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo?
Maybe looking at the home front and fixing things there is a better way to begin. Right Pompeo?
The Yamal LNG gas liquefaction project is underway at the South Tambeyskoye field on the Yamal Peninsula.The project operator is Yamal LNG, a joint venture of Russian gas producer Novatek, France’s Total and China’s CNPC and Silk Road Fund.Initially, the plant was designed to consist of three trains (gas liquefaction and purification facilities), each with a capacity of 16.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG and up to 1.2 mtpa of gas condensate, to be delivered to Asia Pacific markets and also to Europe.
The first train was launched in December 2017, and the plant’s second facility became operational six months ahead of schedule in August 2018.The hundredth batch comprising 7.4 mt of LNG was shipped from the plant in December 2018. It has also been decided to build the fourth train with the capacity of up to 1 mtpa based on Novatek’s proprietary liquefaction technology called Arctic Cascade.
The throughput of the Northern Sea Route has increased several-fold due to shipments from Yamal LNG.The project involves over 650 companies from 55 Russian regions and some 60,000 personnel. Icebreakers and port vessels for Yamal LNG are being built at Russian shipyards. Government support measures have been approved for the project.
The launch of all the planned trains at the Yamal LNG plant will increase Russia’s share on the global LNG market by 2.5 times to reach some 10 percent.
WordPress has almost pissed me off to the point of going through the trouble and change content managing systems and I may just do that, YET!
This plugin disables the new Gutenberg Editor (aka Block Editor) and replaces it with the Classic Editor. You can disable Gutenberg completely, or selectively disable for posts, pages, roles, post types, and theme templates. Plus you can hide the Gutenberg nag, menu item, and more!
The plugin above is one of several, but it is the one I will use to get rid of Gutenberg and its crap…
Sorry WordPress but if you are trying to make yourself obsolete, then you are doing a good job. Never mess with what is working and working perfect…
10 plus years on this system and they want to try to make me change the way I blog!
I just may switch to Drupal, Acquia, Squarespace, HubSpot, Joomla, Sitecore, Box, Brightcove, Pantheon.io, Contentful, Kentico, Unicheck, Superdesk and Vplayed are a few to look at…
Gutenberg stuff kinda simply upset me and that is a good excuse to switch, even after ten years of steady blogging, day in and day out….do not mess with my work…
MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Tuesday a Ukrainian lawmaker, who earlier urged to destroy the Crimean Bridge, had made a direct call for terrorism.Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk was earlier quoted as saying that the bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connects Crimea with mainland Russia, must be “destroyed” by whoever possible, be it “Ukrainian subversive groups, insurgents from Caucasus, aliens or the Lord God himself.”Commenting on the reports, Maria Zakharova said it was “one of many statements, made by the Kiev regime and the modern Ukraine’s political establishment, which contains a direct call for terrorist activities.””If they see nothing wrong about public statements of this kind, it’s hard to imagine what their clandestine plans could be, or what kind of “peaceful future” the Ukrainian regime has prepared for its own country,” Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.”The official government’s policies are based on provocations, similar to the Kerch Strait incident, the staged death of [Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko] and on endless intimidation and threats,” she added.
PS: Yummy, creamy peanut butter spread on toasted black bread. Take a bite as the peanut butter starts to melt into the bread…
Russians love Bears and they will eat them also if given a chance….How about this Christmas having Roasted Bear Meat?
“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.
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…
WordPress has almost pissed me off to the point of going through the trouble and change content managing systems and I may just do that, YET!
If you want peace, prepare for war… (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum…)MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Tuesday a Ukrainian lawmaker, who earlier urged to destroy the Crimean Bridge, had made a direct call for terrorism.Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk was earlier quoted as saying that the bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connects Crimea with mainland Russia, must be “destroyed” by whoever possible, be it “Ukrainian subversive groups, insurgents from Caucasus, aliens or the Lord God himself.”Commenting on the reports, Maria Zakharova said it was “one of many statements, made by the Kiev regime and the modern Ukraine’s political establishment, which contains a direct call for terrorist activities.””If they see nothing wrong about public statements of this kind, it’s hard to imagine what their clandestine plans could be, or what kind of “peaceful future” the Ukrainian regime has prepared for its own country,” Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.”The official government’s policies are based on provocations, similar to the Kerch Strait incident, the staged death of [Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko] and on endless intimidation and threats,” she added.
