Please notice the “Birch Tree Salad” in the foreground. It doesn’t contain any birch but it is decorated in a way that will quietly bug the Russian person among us because birch trees are the corniest Russian stereotype:
And the New Year’s tree:
2015 was a fantastic year for me. Let’s hope 2016 will be even better because it’s looking like it will have to be. 🙂
Happy New Year, everybody!
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Happy New Year!! 😀
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Happy New Year, dear Clarissa and N! 🙂 🙂
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Щасливого нового року!
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Well, I missed the Arizona New Year a couple hours ago, but it’ll still be New Year’s for a few hours over the American East.
Also PROSIT NEUJAHR, Clarissa — ALLES ZUM BESTEN FUER DAS JAHR 20016!!
I look forward to controversial discussions to come in 2016, which should be a VERY interesting year — in the meantime, you and N enjoy that beautiful feast!!! 🙂
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
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Happy 2016, Clarissa!
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Happy new year to everybody!
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Happy 2016 and I loved your birch trees!
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Just noticed…. Sovetskoe Igristoe! My New Years favorite!
It’s hard to find in Poland now so I had to settle for a knock off (novorusskoe something).
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Yes! There is no New Year’s without it. And here’s the beauty of capitalism: it’s easier to buy it in St Louis than it used to be in the actual USSR. 🙂
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“Novorusskoe”???
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At least, it isn’t novorosskoe. 🙂
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Happy new year!
I’m seriously curious about what all the dishes are.
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Bliadhna Mhath Ùr
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What language is this?
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Gaelic.
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I thought it was Sanskrit.
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Sanskrit:
No, I don’t speak either Gaelic or Sanskrit — I’m just old enough to remember how to use a real computer rather than an IPhone app, and Google the info. 🙂
(I also have a lot of free time on my hands this time of the evening — as if readers tolerating my comments didn’t know that.)
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I’m always grateful that you liven up the blog in the evenings.
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