May 12, 2008
Until March this year, before moving to Ireland, I believed that I lived in the “Potatoes Country”:)). But here I am in Ireland and, mighty surprise, the potato strikes again! This time, harder:)). Everywhere you eat, you must have potatoes: mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, baked potatoes, potatoes salad, boiled potatoes……
I’m wondering when I’ll have my “potato stake”:). For example, I went to a very respectable restaurant a few days ago and along with the stake there were boiled potatoes, baked potatoes and potatoes vodka. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 26, 2008
Romanians celebrate Orthodox Easter this Sunday, April 27. One of the moments in preparing Easter meals is to color eggs, especially in red, but also in green, blue or yellow. Tradition say that Thursday before Easter is the day to do that.
So, living in Dublin now doesn’t mean that we forget our tradition. These are the steps in coloring boiled eggs:
1. Wash the eggs (free range or organic).
2. Boil them pretty well in salted water.
3. Put the color in another vessel with water, add a couple of spoons of vinegar. Boil for about 20 seconds. Switch off the gas.
4. Add carefully the eggs, one by one, and mix them with the colored water for about 10 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
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