Feast II

Posted by peanut on Friday Jan 2, 2009 Under food log

Hehe.. Sometimes my house will be filled with homosapiens.

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Most of them are my housemate’s groupmates. And some satelites. LOL

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Lotsa potatoes that day! They went out for the fireworks that night and I was at home watching geisha. Kinda smart I thought. It was COLD!

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I prepared this for our new year’s eve dinner thou. It is kinda easy to make and nice to eat. I’m not those people that like to measure and very particular on food. So it is just fried fish fillet with sweet lemon sauce. Hehe.

p/s happy birthday to Jenna Foo

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Feast I

Posted by peanut on Friday Jan 2, 2009 Under food log

When over to Joshua’s house for a meal on the first day of 2009. I said a meal because it was at 3pm, a weird time to be called as a lunch or dinner.

Lotsa food pictures ahead. If you are hungry, please kindly scroll down very quickly to avoid drooling on your keyboard.

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The scenery from the balcony. You can see the Volga river is practically frozen with lotsa ice floating on the surface. It is kinda cold nowadays. Some -12 or more. But this is definitely not the worst yet.

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A fast count of all the food we had. You can’t see my fried fish with lemon sauce down there. But what you can see here is (from left) Chinese sausages from China, some vinegar to go with the self made dumplings made by my China groupmate (the dumplings are of tea and pork), and a few chapatti.

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Here you can see the tofu with cheese prepared by my Mauritian groupmate, in the middle is the curry chicken prepared by my friend from India, fruit salad, spicy sotong.

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Jasmine rice and Korean salad.

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A big feast for the first day of new year indeed!

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Dong Zhi

Posted by peanut on Thursday Dec 25, 2008 Under food log

This was Sunday, right after our feast of Saturday’s night.

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Winter is really here! Freaking cold!

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Hardworking in making small balls.

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Don’t know whose hands.

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Smiley made by me.

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Not bad right?

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Somebody imitating me.

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Another smiley with a wicked smile and thick lips.

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Don’t know who made that! Yucks. Remind me of my parasitology cycle. Ewwwww..

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Christmas I

Posted by peanut on Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 Under food log

So weird! I lost some 30 posts during this transition of host. But I don’t know which of them are missing so I decided to not pay attention to it. Haha. Whatever. But it means that my overall post is 291 and this is the 292nd post.

Well, actually today will just post up some pics that we took during our dinner that day. This happened last Saturday.

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I prepared potato pancakes. I think the girls are smart enough to let me do some simple things and kept me busy. LOL. Anyway. I made them kinda early so it was kinda not that nice when they eat it. As for me, I was chewing all the way while making. Hehe.

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All nine of them. They do look like pancakes right?

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Anyway, lotsa food. Fried chicken, fish, vege, cheesy macaroni, mushroom SAUCE, potato pancake, dessert, and drinks.. Oh, and the egg roll.. Er, don’t know how to call them properly. *Burp*

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Hehe, everybody eating. No time for pictures. In fact I’m feeling kinda hungry now looking at the pictures. Going to heat up tang yuan that we made 2 days back. LOL. More pictures coming up when I got them. Ciao!

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Some potato pancakes

Posted by peanut on Sunday Dec 7, 2008 Under food log

Since I always see CJ writing about recipes of how some nice food can be done, I decided to write down this recipe which I think suits people like me who are very lazy yet wanna eat something filling that would last us long enough before we crawl to the refrigerator again.

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Prepare the potatoes by shredding the potatoes (am I using the correct word?) and prepare the flour by mixing them with water.

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Add eggs into the mixture. More eggs = better taste. Add more flour so that the mixture is those that you would use to make pancakes. Don’t know how to describe it actually. If you fail the first time, then try the second time, you will know how to get the consistency right.

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Add in the potatoes and mix them evenly. Add some salt. Actually you do not need too much salt for this.

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Fry them on a pan until they turned gold. Hehe.

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Can eat with tomato and chilli sauce. Hehe. Very nice! Easy and filling.

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Sunday breakfast again =)

Posted by peanut on Sunday Nov 23, 2008 Under food log

Don’t be jealous. Hmm, maybe I should make this a category instead? LOL. Let’s see what I had.

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Claire prepared sausages and bacons. Hehehe.

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I woke up quite early but decided to parasite her and contributed some eggs. Woohooo..

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And this is what we had, for Sunday breakfast. Ahh, how I hope every morning is like this.

For the past 1 week, I’ve been having Nescafe EVERY MORNING! I think this is bad. But I felt good during classes and rounds. Maybe it is a good thing? Sunday goes away so fast.

Volgograd is still all warm and dry and windy. Hopefully those in Moscow and Kursk enjoyed the snow *smirk*. Don’t know about Nizhny thou. Haha. But these days aren’t going to stay for long. I’m expecting good old snow again. Hopefully this winter is pretty!

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Brown bread for dummies

Posted by peanut on Saturday Nov 22, 2008 Under blogin, cool stuffs, food log

No, it doesn’t mean you are dumb if you eat brown bread.

Introducing: Brown bread

Most of us in Russia know how the black bread taste like and smell like. Indeed, it is Russia’s smell. My first ever Russian teacher who stayed in Malaysia showed us this black dark small hard brick of bread and told everybody in the class to smell it. She said, THAT is the smell of Russia.

When I came here. It is indeed the smell of Russia. LOL. I don’t know why but it is significant and the smell reminds me of what my teacher said from time to time.

So, what’s the difference? The white and dark bread.

White bread is made from wheat flour with the wheat bran and germ removed. The bran and germ contains a lot of minerals even healthy fat and oil. With them removed, the flour basically has little nutritional value that most people would need to add it man-made vitamins and minerals into the bread making process.

The sayings is very correct. Nature provides, we destroy, and then we add them back via a man made form.

After the removal of the bran and germ, the flour will be bleached with potassium bromate, benzoyl peroxide and chlorine dioxide gas. Just by looking at the name and you know that they are not mean for good natural life.

Wherelse the brown bread is processed straight away without the removal of the germ and barn, giving them more nutritional value and more ‘natural’.

The taste is somehow hard for first timers but you can try by switching to light rye bread which is more subtle in taste, before changing the whole diet into true wholemeal bread. Enjoy!

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Sometimes the bread is brown doesn’t mean they are made from brown floor. Look at the ingredient of the bread. If it writes enriched or wheat flour, it means that it is actually white bread with colorings like caramel.

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Now you see it, now you don’t. Inside my stomach.

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Peanut not at home

Posted by peanut on Saturday Nov 1, 2008 Under blogin, food log

Yesterday was really kinda like a hungry-ghost day. Woke up in the morning to set up this new site and after that went to the China Town to cut my hair!

Well, there is no real China Town in Volgograd. It is just a small building with lotsa China people selling things inside. I think it is more accurate if you call it China Market.

We started the visit with our lunch.

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We ordered a plate of tofu dish, a plate of mutton dish, a bowl of mee soup, some china-made ‘biscuits’ and a bowl of rice and all of them cost us 600 rubles (around 79 ringgit)

Seriously, I think it is expensive. Even thou the portions are big but the pricings are a little bit weird. The plate of tofu dish cost 250 rubs while the mutton dish cost 280 rubs if not mistaken. Notice the difference? Well, it is the only place in town that you could get some chinese food with a relatively lower price compared to those proper restaurants, so there is nothing much to complaint about. Despite the fact that the place is not really well furnished and it is always filled with cigarette smoke, people still go there for their weekly/monthly/yearly dose of chinese food.

I got my hair cut by the Chinese working in the saloon there. It cost only 100 rub! Haha. Recommended because it is cheaper and I don’t think the russians know how to cut our hair. No before and after pic thou.

We took marshrut half way and walked for some distance. And the weather was perfect.

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Told you all that Russia has blue sky. Blue blue cloudless sky.

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Winter is coming, leaves are getting yellow. Too bad you can’t see much of the Volga river from this pic.

Came home to another feast with housemates and Cherrie.

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Curry chicken, fried fish and vege. So much food for today.

I wouldn’t be at home today because I’m going to Republic of Kalmykia with Leedwi and another 2 friends. Will be back on Monday morning. I hope the trip is going to be good. Seriously hope so. Pray for me!

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A birthday party

Posted by peanut on Sunday Oct 26, 2008 Under blogin, food log

Hey, I notice that there are not many pictures this week so I’m going to fill this post with lots of them today. By the way, yesterday’s was my groupmate’s birthday. She is from China so this would be the LAST time I’m going to celebrate her birthday with her. I was invited to her house because our group kept on postponing my birthday celebration and her boyfriend get bored with all the postponing and decided to call me up and treat me. How good!

I waited for them at the bus stop at 12. He came with another 2 friends. And our first stop is to get some beer. But this time it is not from the ordinary shop. We are getting beer from the beer factory, which is just one block away from their house!

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Notice the price? So damn cheap..

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And after that we get to his house, and the birthday girl is cooking.

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And then is her bf’s turn to cook. Well, he is a better cook and her. But she is a better cook than most of the Malaysian girls here I think.

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Today’s menu. Each of the dishes have their name! And beside that is the way to prepare them. Haha, they told me that they researched on some of the dishes to prepare the perfect lunch today.

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Chicken’s stomach with bell pepper. Nice nice..

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Home-made pizza.

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Some of the already cooked dishes.. Got the famous stir fry potatoes, chicken stomach with bell pepper, pork with chinese cabbage, cauliflower with tomatoes, mutton soup (not yet here), roast chicken with lavash, pizza(not yet there) and birthday cake.

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Nah, all of the 8 dishes.

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Eat until evening!

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Pizzassssszzz

Posted by peanut on Thursday Oct 16, 2008 Under food log

Food blog again.. So sorry. But I was happy yesterday because of all the pizzas I had. Girls and gang decided to have a ridiculously big pizza ‘party’ and as usual, I was the leech yesterday.

I will cut the producing part and only let you see this picture of the pizza-in-making.

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Yep, that’s our house’s microwave. The oven is not working, if not we will be enjoying better food now and I would be much fatter.

Here comes the productsssss.

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Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five but six pizzasssssss! They have the mood to design their special tags for each of them.

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The pizzass and the lengluisss (erhem.. chicks?)

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Getting ready too start.

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Busy munching~

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Everybody is full, but still have some leftover!

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