I discovered this recipe yesterday on a fantastic recipe blog, smitten kitchen. My parents are visiting at the moment so I called my mom over to read the recipe with me. “Let’s make this today!” she exclaimed. We had almost all the ingredients on hand and added shredded cooked chicken to make it a complete meal. [...]
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To all you mothers and mother-figures out there: Happy Mother’s Day! Mothers are such important people in our lives and society. Good thing we have a day to celebrate them (though really we should celebrate them every day). In honor of Mother’s Day, this past week in English club everyone (7th formers to adults) made [...]
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It’s radish season again! Why is this so exciting? Because radishes are one of the first “new” vegetables to appear in the spring in Ukraine. They add variety and a bit of a spicy kick to the winter’s onion, cabbage, and potato diet. I buy them at the bazaar — right now they’re selling at [...]
I love pancakes. I make them at least once a week — they taste the best after a long weekend run, as they should be enjoyed over the course of a leisurely late morning alongside a mug or two (or three) of fresh coffee. My staple pancake recipe is this one, but recently I’ve modified [...]
What a mish-mash post title, you must be thinking to yourself, what do these things have in common? Well, they were all part of my good friend and neighboring-village-PCV, Janira’s, second annual Dance Competition/Fundraiser at her school here. Janira has a weekly dance club for her pupils and for the second year they prepared dances [...]
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Sunday afternoon, 3pm. Post-long run and pancakes. What better thing to do than go to a concert? A bunch of my pupils attend Sniatyn’s Music School, and a couple had invited me to the concert. It was a joy to sit and listen to live music for two hours. At points throughout the concert a [...]
Happy International Women’s Day (aka the 8th of March, 8ого березня)! Ukraine celebrates this holiday hardcore; I received many well-wishes, flowers, and chocolates from my pupils yesterday. Also this week: the first “Mister School” competition (won by my 10A pupil, Nazar), and the opening concert for my school’s newly-renovated assembly hall. Videos below from the [...]
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This month’s installment of Ukrainian Tunes (see first post here) comes to you from the band Бумбокс (“Boombox”). My 11th formers last year told me about them, but I didn’t actually sit down and listen to their music until a few weeks ago. I’m sorry I missed them for so long, because they’re great! It’s [...]
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For Michelle’s birthday bash last weekend, I made a very large pot of mashed potatoes that five of us couldn’t finish. While mashed potatoes are tasty, leftover ones get dry really fast and are hard to reheat without a microwave. I also had some left over cooked red cabbage, so today I decided to attempt [...]
We often stumble upon the best recipes when we’re not actively looking for them. With two thawed chicken breasts in my fridge, I was going to cook them today with the rest of my red cabbage. However, I just happened to be reading Mark Bittman’s most recent column in the New York Times and it [...]
I love pancakes. Just know that I make these ones at least once a week, usually after my weekend long run. While it’s hard to beat the cornmeal-banana-kefir ‘cakes, I’m always on the lookout for a new pancake recipe to shake things up. Luckily, I stumbled upon this one the other day and decided to [...]
I took a few short videos with my camera when Emma, Michael, and I traveled around in January. Ukrainian New Year carols, choirs, church bells…enjoy! Filed under: celebrations/holidays, film, Highlights, Kyiv, music, religion, video
When Emma, Michael, and I were in Kyiv, I promised them we’d stop to drink a cup of “hot chocolate” (literally melted chocolate). I knew just the place to go, as I’d been there last year while touring around with a former PCV and her mom. It was a cold and snowy afternoon, perfect for [...]
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On 7 January – Ukrainian Christmas – instead of sitting at my counterpart’s dining table for the Holy Supper (Святий Вечір), I found myself at the airport in Kyiv to meet two friends from Oberlin, Emma and Michael. They’d been planning to visit me in Ukraine ever since I arrived here. Still, it was hard [...]
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What are колядки (kolyadky), you may ask? Why, carols! Christmas/New Year carols, to be exact. Ukrainians have many traditional New Year and Christmas carols, some really beautiful. Many sound similar, but maybe that’s because Ukrainians songs use similar harmonies. The school choir sang a few carols to us teachers this morning. I took some video [...]
My good friend Michelle comes to my place every few weekends so we can study for the Literature GRE together…and drink tea together…and cook together. The following recipe was conceived on one of those weekends. I can’t go through a whole loaf of bread in a week before it gets hard, so I stick it [...]
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One year ago today I swore-in as a full-fledged Peace Corps Volunteer. On Saturday, December 10th I will have been at my site, Sniatyn, for one year. That means I have less than a year left in Ukraine. One of my 10th-form pupils, Tanya, made it to the 3rd round of FLEX Testing. FLEX is [...]
As I strolled through the bazaar on Saturday morning, something caught my eye: deep purple-red cabbages. Of course Ukrainians grow tons of standard green cabbage, but I haven’t seen red cabbage very often. I immediately stopped at that vendor and bought a small head. (Now I wish I’d bought a big one.) But what to [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving from Ukraine! Filed under: celebrations/holidays, community, culture, education, English Club, Highlights, language, pictures
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It’s autumn in Ukraine. That means cabbage, apples, and onions are some of the cheapest things at the bazaar (and will continue to be for the next five months). So it pays to have many different cooking techniques in one’s repertoire. I found this recipe on the New York Times website recently and tweaked it [...]
What are groundnuts, you may ask? Why, peanuts! This easy, hearty East African stew can be made with or without meat and provides a fiber punch and delicious, peanuty taste. I made it last winter with chicken but today didn’t have any meat so just added more veggies and it turned out quite well. Groundnut [...]
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I’ve been featured in an Alumni Profile on the Oberlin Athletics website. So proud to be an Obie! My Peace Corps Partnership Project (PCPP) grant has been posted online! Please consider donating a little money so my school here can get some multimedia equipment for the English classroom. I was asked on Wednesday [...]
Guess what? It’s beet season again! That makes for a happy Tamm. Beets have lots of fiber and vitamin C and many other nutrients. There’s really no excuse not to eat them. I present you a recipe I have made a few times in the past month or two; it will become a winter staple [...]
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Surprisingly, fava is not made from fava beans. It’s a Greek dip made from split peas. Yellow split peas are cheap here in Ukraine and are a good source of protein, so I’ve been buying them and experimenting with ways to cook them. I recently made a delicious ginger and split pea soup, and today [...]
This is one of my favorite Ukrainian national/pop songs (performed, above, by Наталія Бучинська (Natalia Buchyns’ka)). The slash is there because it’s a national song in that it’s about Ukraine — specifically, the beautiful Carpathian Mountains not far from where I live — and a pop song. Beware: it’s super catchy. Below, the Ukrainian lyrics [...]
It’s that time of year: soup time! As the chilly, foggy autumn weather descends, a hearty bowl of soup is the perfect thing to lift the spirits and warm the soul. I’ve been reading a great cooking blog, Joy the Baker, and this recipe inspired me to make my own version. Dried split peas are [...]
a new gel pen w/ thin tip. I’m going to buy a bunch of these to take back to the States w/ me. Renaissance masses. Specifically Palestrina & Josquin. Free days like today; days w/ no outside commitments. The freedom to do whatever, whenever. Surprise video chats w/ family. Entire gchat conversations in German (w/ [...]
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I splurged a little yesterday and bought a blender. My inaugural blender recipe: a delicious and nutritious smoothie/milkshake concoction. This is a great mid-afternoon snack and would also be a quick breakfast. Kefir Power Smoothie Ingredients 1/2 a frozen banana 1/3 cup kefir (I use nonfat) 1 square dark chocolate, crushed 3 walnuts (peanuts also [...]
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