Wednesday, September 23, 2009

пища (food)






Here is an odd assortment of food pictures.  Maybe I'm hungry or running out of ideas for the blog...or a little of both!


This was served at an Enrichment Night...caviar sandwiches.
Easter cakes
A branch social:  Easter cupcakes and to the left, my cinnamon rolls
Roast suckling pig in Segovia, Spain (it was yummy and at least my piece didn't have a hoof!)
At a sidewalk cafe in Segovia.
Most typical refreshments at church.  Ludmilla is pouring juice (сок).  
A yummy and store-bought cake for a birthday party for Katya in Volzhsky.
For a picnic...spread it all out, sit around the food and enjoy!
Onions ready to be grilled over the fire.  Mmmmmm
шашлык (pronounced shashleek) .....Now I AM hungry.
Ice cream cake before being cut in Kaunas, Lithuania
Ice cream cake after being cut...out of this world....we had it every night.
Any guesses????    Right it's borsht....but everyone makes it different...it's a lot like stew.
Sveta serving up her borsht.
Elder Hanks didn't have such good luck when cooking his favorite cake.  He even e-mailed his mom for the recipe, spent a fortune on the ingredients, slaved for hours and .......
took a picture, tasted it, gagged and threw it in the garbage.  We actually all had some, but there was no way it was going to keep until later without going soggy, and it really wasn't very good fresh!
Another picnic, later in the summer with more garden produce.
Everyone helps prepare.
Our latest picnic last month..more шашлык!
....and watermelon!  Always lots of good food, surrounded by great company and many fun times!!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

September Surprises




Galina presented us with a beautiful, perfect pear that she brought from her garden
The Howards and us having fun being tourists
Volgograd just had a huge birthday party.  The flowers tell how old she is.
I told you about how they dress up for the first day of school...this is VERY typical.
John and Elena at her baptism.  Note the jumpsuit that I reconstructed.
These are fish drying at the ferry building in Krasnoarmesky
Hunting for mushrooms
KWait guys!  It will taste better after it is barbaqued!

Katya and her mom surprised me by finding out when my birthday was and came by to sing this to me...."better late than never, they said" (It's also a Russian proverb).

Monday, September 7, 2009

JOYCE'S UNFORGETTABLE RUSSIAN BIRTHDAY

I wanted to spend my birthday at one of my favorite places...Мамаев Курган

They even were putting up the red flags in honor of the occasion
For the first time we got to see the impressive changing of the guard at the Eternal Flame
Love the high step march!
Cute kids about to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame

This statue is entitled Grieving Mother

Yummy Russian meal on a terrace overlooking statue.

What a way to spend a birthday...with 7 handsome men! (notice statue in background)