En passant...
Nov. 29th, 2008 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSergey Z. called a little while ago to let me know that if I wanted to, I could join a van headed for town in... just under half an hour, whereupon I realized that I do not have my address book with me, so I shall have to adapt and improvise a new plan to send a few Christmas cards from Baikonur, at least for now.
During my previous trip into town, I bought a couple of packages of аджика (adzhika) mix, which is a condiment associated with Caucasian Georgia. The instructions on the mix suggest adding some salt and some wine vinegar (3-4%) to the desired semisolid consistency.
One interesting thing I notice is that the order of the ingredients differs with the language on the back of the package. The ingredients in Kazakh are: paprika, chili, coriander, sarymsak, and dill seed (names that are either identical to the Russian or cognate, except for sarymsak, which is probably garlic). In Russian, the order of these ingredients is: chili, dill seed, coriander, paprika, and garlic. This would suggest that there is no requirement, as there is in the United States, to state the ingredients in descending fractional order.
I must make a point of looking for birch twigs packaged for use in saunas. I had my third sauna yesterday and shared some interesting conversation with a fellow from Saab Space, who arrived a couple of days ago to install the clamp band that keeps the spacecraft attached to the adapter system, even when - and particularly when - the whole assembly is tilted from the vertical position into the horizontal.
More later, probably. Gotta go get ready for the trip.
Cheers...
During my previous trip into town, I bought a couple of packages of аджика (adzhika) mix, which is a condiment associated with Caucasian Georgia. The instructions on the mix suggest adding some salt and some wine vinegar (3-4%) to the desired semisolid consistency.
One interesting thing I notice is that the order of the ingredients differs with the language on the back of the package. The ingredients in Kazakh are: paprika, chili, coriander, sarymsak, and dill seed (names that are either identical to the Russian or cognate, except for sarymsak, which is probably garlic). In Russian, the order of these ingredients is: chili, dill seed, coriander, paprika, and garlic. This would suggest that there is no requirement, as there is in the United States, to state the ingredients in descending fractional order.
I must make a point of looking for birch twigs packaged for use in saunas. I had my third sauna yesterday and shared some interesting conversation with a fellow from Saab Space, who arrived a couple of days ago to install the clamp band that keeps the spacecraft attached to the adapter system, even when - and particularly when - the whole assembly is tilted from the vertical position into the horizontal.
More later, probably. Gotta go get ready for the trip.
Cheers...
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Date: 2008-11-29 03:53 am (UTC)Bon voyage!
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Date: 2008-11-29 12:43 pm (UTC)And I will certainly soak them... ain't no way I'm gonna hit myself with these things the way they are!
Cheers...
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Date: 2008-11-29 10:47 pm (UTC)You may find this link interesting, there is a whole science behind the twigs - http://rusbani.narod.ru/files/about_5.html