Easy travel into the East

piątek, 10 maja 2013

New mail from Belarus :3

Yay ! :D So happy about this mail. It contained a letter, recipe, two postcards and Nasha Niva :3

Draniki

Let me give you a recipe which I received from my Belarussian friend, Alexandra ! :)
It's for draniki, kind of pancakes:

Ingredients (for two servings):

5 large potatoes
1 egg
1 medium onion
black pepper- 0,5 tea spoon
salt to taste
sunflower oil 7-8 table spoons

We need a grater to grate the potatoes and onions. Be sure that you use appropriate side of grater, so you don't grate potatoes into strips, but rather into liquid mass. That's what makes Draniki unique.

Crate the potatoes and onions into a bowl.

Add salt, pepper, eggs and mix together. The substance should be liquid, and shouldn't be too thick,

drain excess potato juice or add some flour to achieve required "level of liquidity" (sic!).

Heat the frying pan pour 1 table spoon of sunflower oil into it.

Dump a full table spoon of mixture from the bowl onto the frying pan and form a small about quarter inch thick pancake. Cook on high for 2-3 minutes and then flip over,

Cook another 2-3 minutes until golden brown.

Serve hot with sour cream .

Enjoy! :D

poniedziałek, 22 kwietnia 2013

Наша Ніва

My level of excitement is very high now ! Haha, I've finally got "Nasha Niva" newspapper.
Why am I so excited? It's in BELARUSIAN, yay! :D

Let me show you how it looks like. I will try to read it soon and tell you more about it :3

czwartek, 18 kwietnia 2013

Legend of the founding of Kyiv

Once upon a time there was a royal family of three brothers: Kie, Shchek, Khoriv. And they had a beautiful sister called Lebid. However, one day they had lost their parents to invaders from the East and they had to seek a place for their new home.

Kie chose as their new new home hills at the Dnipro River. Kie and his brothers built a boat and then sailed across the broad and mighty Dnipro River towards the high green bank on the western side. Shchek, Khoriv and Lebid decided to name the city Kyiv to pay homage to their strong and brave elder brother. Thus it was that the City of Kyiv was founded in May, in the Spring of the year 482 A.D.

Kie ruled on the hill which is now called Borichev, Shchek settled on the hill which is now called Shchekovitsa, and Khoriv lived on Khorevitsa. And it was how Kyiv was founded.

niedziela, 17 marca 2013

Freedom day.

25th March- unofficial holiday of Belarus (celebrated by Belarussian opossition), anniversary of proclamation , in 1918, Belarussian People's Republic- the first country of Belarus in modern history.