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The Liebster Award
It was a nice surprise to receive this nomination from Zoe, https://crichtonscoop.wordpress.com/ Thank you!
Blog name „ Cooking With Soul“ says everything . It worth a visit if you haven’t come across her already 🙂
Blogging awards like the Liebster Award, are a great way to share blogs that you have discovered, as well as recognising the efforts of the people behind the blogs, and building the blogging community !
The rules are as follows. (Sorry, I did some changes, because 11 facts and questions were too much :))
- Thank the person/blog who nominated you and link back to them.
- Write a post telling your fellow bloggers 8 things about yourself.
- Answer the questions asked by the blog who nominated you.
- Create 8 questions for those you will nominate.
- Nominate 5-11 new bloggers (who have less than 200 followers)
Winter #globalwarming
Cauliflower Casserole
You probably know this old joke.
Mother: why did you buy for child potato chips?!
Grandmother: But potato is vegetable and vegetables are healthy.
I present to you one nice healthy 🙂 vegetable casserole. Suitable as main dish or side dish.
Cauliflower Casserole
A fresh, light vegetable casserole perfect for a dinner.
So Soft
Quark Pudding. Kohupiimavorm
14 the of March is Estonian Native Langue Day.
Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family. Finnish and Estonian are very similar like for example Italian and Spanish.
Estonian is secret language 🙂 because only ca 1 million people speak this natively.
The biggest difference is that Estonian do not have prepositions (if you read my posts, you probably noticed, that this is the most complicated for me).
I am able to communicate in Russian, English and Finnish and I can tell you, that for saying the same idea, in Estonian this is the shortest, You need and use fewer words because you do not need prepositions 🙂
The second difference is that we do not have grammatical genders. She and He are both ” tema”. Foreigners asking often, how do you know does in this written text man or woman. And we are asking back: WHY this is important? Concentrate on the idea and content, not to the prejudices. And usually, people have names:)
And, unlike the Romance language speakers, we do not know does table or tree is female or male.
Yes, we believe in that nature has the spirit. In Estonian are very much onomatopoeias. But what gender has trees and stones. We do not care 🙂
But Estonian is not so easy. We have fourteen cases. And a lot of vowels.
You can say, that you Estonian is fluent if you are able to pronounce:
õunapuuõied, oaaed, Jüriööülestõus, jäääär, head aega.. 🙂
(apple tree blossoms, bean garden, St. George’s Night Uprising, the ice edge, good by)
For this day I present to you one very typical Estonian dessert.
Quark Pudding with Kissel
Quark Pudding is typical Estonian Dessert.Serve with sour cream or kissel
Ingredients
- 50 g melted butter + some butter to grease baking form and some butter on the top of a dessert
- 400 g quark/curd
- 2 eggs
- 2 dl semolina
- 100 g sour cream
- sugar and grated lemon peel
- bread crumbs
Sauerkraut and Beetroot Salad
Never gift for Estonian womans red Dianthus…
Today is International Woman Day. Have you heard about this? Necessary and nice holiday with “red background”but with good idea. Celebrate and recognize all woman, not only mothers.
During soviet times we do not celebrated Mothers day, was only Woman day on 8th of the March. Soviet Union was terrible, but about feminism and women rights was everything perfect. Woman was welder,tractor driver,cosmonaut. And not only career at work. Woman took care about household and children. Clothes were washed by hand and shops were not full of 
prepared products…:)
In Estonia we have a saying. Woman must be able to feed man and 6 children:)
So, Viva women!
But what about red Dianthus… These times were not very large choice of cut flowers. Just and mostly only expensive roses and cheaper dianthuses.
So we got them enough 🙂 Thank you! 🙂
Beetroot has been used in Estonian cuisine already since the 17th–18th century. From then on, beetroot dishes were included among the foods of the pre-war Republic of Estonia.
The Real Neat Blog Award
Rini from All Roads Lead to Food nominated me for the Real Neat Blog Award ! Vau! 🙂
I have been blogging few months and there are already so many memes.
I appreciate attention, and most important for me this community feeling, cooperation and recognition of each other.
The Rules:
Thank and link the person who nominated you.
Answer the seven questions your nominator has provided.
Nominate 7 other bloggers and create 7 questions for them. Continue reading “The Real Neat Blog Award”
Black Bread Dessert. Leivasupp
So, You baked black bread and probably have some leftovers. This is the easiest dessert in the world.
NB! of course, if you have very salty bread with caraway seeds, this is not dessert to you. Then make better Garlic Breads.
Already medieval cookbooks included recommendations to use toasted and grated black bread to make desserts. Baltic German cooks made black bread pudding with apples or chocolate and wine, rum or cognac. During the inter-war period, Estonian housewives took to making various desserts out of black bread, e.g. a chocolate pudding with black bread. In Soviet times, bread soup was often served in cafeterias, but people made it at home as well.
Black bread plays a major role in Estonian culture. There are tons of superstitions, traditions and old sayings about bread here. For example, you shouldn’t slice a new loaf in the evening or it will shrink, though this saying has become obsolete with the introduction of pre-sliced bread. Also, if you drop your slice of bread, you shouldn’t throw it away – you should pick it up, kiss it and then continue eating. And eating the heel piece will give you big breasts.
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(Kohuke) Chocolate and Cherry Surprise
Emily made Kohuke!!! 🙂
Read how it succeed and enjoy beautiful photos!
Estonian Pea Soup. Hernesupp
Vastlapäev, known as Shrove Tuesday in much of the English-speaking world, the Estonians celebrate this day a little differently.
Instead of pancakes, we eat split pea soup and the delicious Vastlakukkel cream cake.
Traditionally children will sled down any available hill of snow, to get “long linens”. And not only children. Tomorrow, after meeting I am going with my colleges to sled, as well.
And later we have pea soup and Vastlakukkel!
Today, of course nobody care about linen, this is just for fun:)
The name Vastlapaev is taken from the German word “fasten” (to fast). And after Vastlapäev started fast, because meat was ran out.
Traditional pea soup takes time, so this is reasonable to cook more soup and leftovers freeze or store in clean airtight jar.
Traditional Estonian Pea Soup. Hernesupp
Traditional Estonian Pea Soup takes time, but it is worth it
Ingredients
- 500 g pork, best is (smoked) leg or ribs or pork belly
- 0,5 glass of pearl barley
- 400 g dried yellow peas
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 carrots, sliced
- for seasoning salt, mustard, pepper, garlic
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Estonian Cuisine. Eesti Toit. 