We need:
Chicken broth (or beef bouillon), 3-4 tomatoes, 3 potatoes, 1 vegetable marrow (if it is possible to find it in supermarkets), 1 sweet pepper, 1 carrot, 1 onion.
Method of cooking:
Fist of all, we cut an onion and fry it, using olive oil.
Then we pour chicken broth in a pot and put fried onion there. We peel tomatoes, potatoes, a carrot, a marrow, a sweet pepper. All ingredients, except tomatoes, we cut in cubes and put in the pot. As for tomatoes, we cut them in cubes too and stew on a frying pan. After that we can put tomatoes in the pot. Salt and pepper our soup. It is ready when potatoes are ready.
Before serving out, it is better to add some grated cheese and cut dill, parsley and green onion in every plate.
This soup is low-fat and low-caloric.
Two girls are in the crowded elevator.
One whispers:
‘Who stands behind me?’
‘A young man does.’
‘I’ve understood that he is young…tell me…is he handsome?’
My daughter Anya studies in Vienna and attends evening classes in German. Students are from different countries of the world there – the French, Spaniards, Italians and one American, who fell in love with an Austrian and was building the rainbow plans of life together. One day they talked on a subject “my day”. Read more…
We need:
Some chicken meat, one apple, one cucumber, salad (celery cabbage), a little bit walnuts, one lemon, olive oil, pepper, salt.
Method of cooking:
We cut chicken, a cucumber, an apple, salad and walnuts in small pieces.
For dressing we need a little bit of lemon juice, olive oil, pepper and salt. We mix all these ingredients for our dressing. There is no standard way for cooking this dressing. It is better to taste it yourself. Pour this dressing in our salad. It is ready.
Enjoy your meal!!!
Husband says to his wife:
- I have never had an affair, but can you say the same thing?
Wife says:
- Of course, but not with such a honest face.
Norilsk is a city of brave people. If you decide to visit this city, it means you are a brave spirit. It is situated in the Far North in the Arctic on the 69th parallel. There is nothing around the city, only tundra with a huge amount of small lakes and bogs.
On the score of distance of Norilsk from other cities and absence of land communication, citizens call the rest of Russia “mainland”.
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The State flag of the Russian Federation is a tricolor horizontal field, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom.
To the colors of the State flag are attributed a lot of symbolic meanings. There is no official meaning assigned to the colors of the State flag of the Russian Federation.
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JANUARY
New Year – January 1: New Year’s Day is one the most favorite holidays in Russia. All people are happy on this day. On the Eve of this holiday or just on this day everybody give presents to each other, have fun, make fireworks, decorate and fir-trees, cook delicious things and lay the holiday table. The unchangeable participants of this holiday are Farther Frost and his granddaughter “Snegurochka”(a snow girl). At 11.55 p.m. everyone switches a TV-set on and watches the speech of President of the country. At 12 a.m. Kremlin chiming clock beats 12 times and everyone who believes in good says an intimate wish and thanks God for everything good that had happened that year. The holiday lasts till next morning. For the first time this holiday was announced by Peter 1’st order dated by January 20, 700. This order gave the detailed instructions how to celebrate New Year’s Day. Many people used to see the New Year in on January 14, (according to the old calendar). And the tradition of telling fortunes at this night is very popular among young ladies and fellows, who are willing to know at least a little bit about their near future.
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Moscow was first mentioned in the records dated back to the year 1147. So it was founded more than eight centuries ago by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. Historians have accepted the year 1147 as the start of Moscow’s history. At that time it was a small frontier post at the edge of Suzdal lands.
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