One of them is for a Russian summer soup called okroshka, which is traditionally made with kvass (bread-fermented drink) or kefir. But then my hackles were raised when I saw that chickpeas were one of the ingredients used. Now, I'm all for twists and experimentation but chickpeas have not even been known in Russia until recent years.
I grew up in Russia and travelled a lot, and never heard of it. OK, now you can buy anything in Russia, money permitting, but it doesn't make it a Russian ingredient.
It's like adding a Marmite or a curry powder to Ragu Bolognese and claiming it to be an Italian recipe. Savages!!!
And I know I'm being irrational to be so ruffled, like who really cares?
But I am irked, so please tell me to calm down and have a glass of G&T, as it's supposed to be a World Gin Day today.
Last week's weather can't seem to decide, whether to be rainy or sunny, so we had sunny spells after a rain, and then back to sun again, to be followed by rain, and thus, ad infinitum.
On Monday it was back to school for Eddie, while Sasha's school had an Inset day.
We went to his favourite cafe Nero, then the library and the book shop, and he seemed to be pretty content. It was also his respite night, so I waved Sash good bye before collecting Eddie from school.
We had a quiet evening, ordering Domino's pizza and watching Johnny English Strikes Back (again! and we still found it quite amusing).
Eddie did this drawing of Snorlax for the competition in Pokemon magazine a while ago, but I have completely forgotten to post his entry, so emailed them the image at the last moment.
A walk through the flood fields on the way home...
We were recently asked if we wanted to review Trunki. Eddie was super excited and picked his design carefully, after playing with the colour gadget and choosing many options. The Trunki finally arrived yesterday, and Eddie was thrilled to see it after school.
Eddie was practicing playing Believe and Hedwig's theme on his guitar today.
Love that Eddie plays the guitar, hope it is tuneful. Lovely to spend a day with Sasha and he enjoyed his trip to Cafe Nero, which is my favourite coffee shop also. Hope the gin helped calm you down lol
ReplyDeleteThank you, Suzanne, Eddie and I prefer Costa, for some reason I find Nero's coffee way too bitter to my liking. And yes, I did have a G&T yesterday.
DeleteHow lovely to see a photo of Sasha. Cafe Nero is my husband's favourite too.
ReplyDeleteI love Eddie's drawing of the Snorlax and am very impressed with him practising guitar. I spend a lot of money on guitar lessons for my son and he NEVER practises. It's very frustrating!
Thank you, Sarah, Eddie needs reminding to practise, he'd rather play Minecraft.
DeleteI had a little giggle at your chickpeas rant but I know exactly what you mean ! Sash looks so grown up now and it's lovely that you can get a little one-on-one time with each of the boys :) xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cheryl, Sash and I had a good time, just two of us, and did manage to do quite a lot while we were out, he even helped me with grocery shopping.
DeleteI do like the Snorlax picture - hope it wins. Sounds like Sasha had a good inset day.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Erica, fingers crossed, it wins, as the prize is all Pokemon-related, and my Pokemon-obsessed child would be thrilled.
DeleteI do get annoyed by this sort of thing as well. Lovely to see Eddie so happy with his new Trunki. Also, lovely to see Sasha as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anca, it was good to have a little rant for me. :)
DeleteAww that is lovely that Eddie is so happy with his new Trunki, they are fab. Looks like Sasha is doing well. xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan! We still haven't done any outdoors pics for the review, as it's been raining non-stop here.
DeleteGlad he is still playing the guitar, do I remember the school were going to be stopping it?
ReplyDeleteNice to spend some one on one with Sasha before he went for respite, some time with both boys.
I get irrationally irritated by simple things as well.
Thank you, Elaine, that was the violin, which he had for a term. He's been learning how to play the guitar for the 2nd year now.
DeleteSo many things have been 'cannibalised' over the years, you vent away. My son loved his Trunki, it went everywhere with him for a long time. #365
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary, so far we postponed taking photos with Trunki outdoors, it's been such a wet rainy week. So much for the summer.
DeleteThe weather is driving me slightly batty. Im sorry to hear about the chickpeas I can only imagine how annoying it is! The Trunki looks great a very good choice of colours I am sure he will have a lot of fun with it x
ReplyDeleteThank you, the weather has been pretty abysmal. I wonder if it might improve for the weekend.
DeleteI can't believe that this time last year we were despairing about the heatwave and this year I haven't ventured out without a cardigan yet! I hope you have a trip planned to use the Trunki! #project365
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