happy halloween

As you can see, we had some very serious purchases to make at the grocery store...

broken english

Yesterday, I was trying to find out roughly how my Russian aunt Maya made her delicious chicken soup. See, when you search for "russian chicken soup", sometimes, appropriately, you get Russians typing in recipes for their chicken soup. I don't know why exactly I think this is sooooo hilarious, but look at how adorably broken these directions are. (Try reading them to yourself in a thick Russian accent, it takes it up a notch.)

- add the flour till pastry will be not sickly and will be elastic
- knead it near 10 min
- to roll it for think circle and live it for 5-10 min
- powder it flour
- and.... mmmm how it will be in english.... make from pastry something like tube... you can see it in the photo...
- slice it for think pieces.
- and live it for 10-15 min
- preparing the boiling water
- add the noodles in boiling water for 2 min (for come down the flour)
- after add the noodles in chicken bouillon and prepare till noodles will be ready

I know that doesn't sound too much like a soup recipe, I think in that section she's teaching us how to make homemade noodles for the soup. Anyway, if you want to learn how to make Russian Chicken Noodle Soup by the way Nadya makes it, go here.

can't wait

Say what you want about Guy Ritchie... the fact that he's the one making the Sherlock Holmes film is effing brilliant. His trademark underbelly-esque tone is the perfect counterpoint to the classic cheesiness of this story. Will it be an "important film"? No. But I bet it will be entertaining as all get out. I'm pumped.

fancy

Everyone who knows me well is aware that I'm a bit in love with all things French. I love cooking French food (obviously) and I'm perpetually planning a vacation there that I never seem to take. I've got a list of places I would love to go, one of them being Poilâne. One uneventful weekday evening I was shopping at Metropolitan Market just minutes away from my house... and what do I see? An authentic Poilâne loaf, shipped from Paris. That's just amazing.

this is how you turn on a light at microsoft

No wonder.

silly signage

Most of us are no stranger to the smattering of accidentally funny things on the internet. I have a long standing love for engrish.com and the like. These findings, however, were not a byproduct of a language barrier. Nope. These are just some signs I happened to see in the good ole USofA.