Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Belarus Times Two

February 22, 2014

A couple of cards from Belarus for you today.  Have a look!

The first card says,"Greetings from Belarus!  We are twins - Lena and Aya.  Hope you'll enjoy our card!  Wish you all the best and have a nice day!  Best wishes...."


They also used a very interesting stamp on their card.  I wouldn't use it as a guide to eat wild mushrooms, but it's a neat stamp.

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If you think this card looks familiar, give yourself 10 points!  I received the same one a few days earlier.  However, there wouldn't have been time for the sender of the second card to know that I received the first card before it was sent, so it really couldn't be helped.  The back of the card is quite different though.  

"Hello Helen!  Sorry that I couldn't make you happy with b/w card of actor but I hope this food picture is also nice :) Here you can see very simple, tasty and that's why popular food in Belarus (and, I suppose in Ukraine and Russia too). To cook it you need:
250 gr of cottage cheese, 1 egg, 1 spoon of flour, 2 spoons of sugar, and some sour cream for serving a meal.  You should just mix all the ingredients and fry this mass in a form of disk(like on photo) for 10-15 minutes.  Hug, Anja!"
"P.S.  Bon appetit!"

Honestly, I am so thrilled that Anja sent along the recipe's translation for me too.  I don't know if I'll make it, but I am thinking about it!

The stamp looks like it has been embroidered, so it is quite interesting.  I haven't seen this one before.

Two great cards!  Fun :-)

5 comments:

Crafty Tokyo Mama said...

I'm going to get some cottage cheese and try this for dinner tonight!! Thanks for posting the recipe!

Crafty Tokyo Mama said...

Forgot to say that I really like the flower and towel card, too. So pretty! And the embroidered flower stamp is very nice, too.

Helen said...

You're welcome. Let me know how they turn out! I tried to find a similar recipe using those ingredients and I think they might be blintzes....but I'm not completely sure.

Thanks for visiting today!

Scriptor Senex said...

That mushroom stamp is beautiful.

Helen said...

Thank you! I like it a lot too.