I have realized that “mushroom julienne” does not mean the same thing in English as in Russian. Our juliennes are mushrooms stewed in white wine and then baked with shredded parmesan, nutmeg, and heavy whipping cream.
N and I have exchanged our Christmas stockings. We both tried to give each other toy hedgehogs. N was successful: he gave me two really great hedgehogs. My hedgehog, however, turned out to be a frog. I bought it in the last week of the semester when I was exhausted and not in full control of my faculties. I do remember wondering why the hedgehog I bought was green but I had no energy to investigate.
Merry Christmas!
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What is the gorgeous tri-colored dish in the middle?
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These are 3 different salads: carrot and walnut, beet and prune, egg and cheese.
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Regarding Christmas, I was interested to read a historical post about Рождество у королевы Виктории (with pictures and photos):
http://b-a-n-s-h-e-e.livejournal.com/1021235.html
Do you like historical posts of this kind?
Just something beautiful for a change – I was touched by the sculpture called “Reconciliation”, never heard before about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_%28Josefina_de_Vasconcellos%29
That may be my wish for everybody: let the approaching year bring us at least slight reconciliation between peoples and people, and between each person and what is inside himself / herself.
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The biggest food revolution since the microwave, the Foodini is a three dimensional food printer. If you can imagine it then you can make it or download your favorite recipes from the cloud and have them automatically prepared (http://www.naturalmachines.com/).
And here’s a video:
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