Salad Dniester and Bottle of White Wine at Dacha

 Salad Dniester, photo from last summer

Tossed together real quick

So here it is - Dniester salad from Ukraine, but tasty and cheap

chopped (shredded) white cabbage, perhaps lightly crushed
canned green peas
chopped semi-smoked sausage, like Krakow sausage, or boiled-smoked sausage
salt, pepper to taste
dressing - mayonnaise, 

toss

voila 

Official description from Wikipedia

Dniester is a salad made from shredded white cabbage, salted and lightly crushed, sliced ​​semi-smoked sausage, canned peas and mayonnaise.

According to legend, the Dniester salad was invented in the 1960s by the chef of the Chernivtsi restaurant Dnister, located on Olha Kobylyanska ul , No. 7. Dniester became the restaurant's signature salad, as well as a popular recipe for home cooking due to its taste, ease of preparation, and inexpensive ingredients. Later, the salad allegedly won a prize at the All-Union Culinary Competition in Moscow.

In addition to the main ingredients, the salad is prepared with the addition of onions, herbs, sugar, and decorated with boiled eggs on top.

 

 

 

Общепит: Салат Днестр:  Салат Днестр, фото с прошлого лета значит так - салат Днестр с кукраины, но вкусно и дешево порезанная (шинкованная) капуста белокочанная...

Stella Artois Lunch Today

 Today's Stella Artois lunch al fresco

British preferred pisswasser

Sur Lie Blanc

 Here's a alfresco serving of a bottle of Russian domestic Sur Lie Blanc sparkling, pretty good for the price in my estimation

Chateau Tamagne (that's where Crimea is)... sur lie meets the tank methode

Spotted woodpeckers at my country residence

 Here is a couple great spotted woodpeckers that are live at my country place, occasionally feed on my sunflower seeds

Woodpecker chick using tail for support

Feeding time

Bottle of wine al-fresco at dacha Epicuro Primitivo

 Just what the title says, reporting a nice bottle of red enjoyed in country at dacha, al fresco wining

Luca Maroni give 97 points!

97 points leaves nothing much for improvement

Nice with some rich food

Joys of Dacha: Heat, Cold Beer, Potato Snack, Humidity and Some English Reading

 Joys of Dacha: Heat, Cold Beer, Potato Snack, Humidity and Some English Reading

 

These English ladies are forward.

Tomskoye beer, a decent larger, nothing much to taste but good on a hot summer day and the weather is in near 30s Celsius in Moscow and around currently and has been so for about three weeks already, though with regular thunderstorms.

Kate has different agonies now. But it's alright. The important thing is not to make a big deal out of it.

Developing cancer and dying is as natural as taking a dump.

Not to mention that the British Royals are guilty of murdering lots of people, millions in fact, first directly such as during the reign of say Henry VIII, then and up to, and including, now through the actions of the vile British regime whose figureheads they are, albeit nominal.

But it's a trifling matter too, something to laugh about, just a note in passing, nobody gives a fack, that's my sincere advice to the english bitch.

In Vino: Marques de Caceres

 That was some good wine well drunk.

The red crianza in particular is rated 92 by James Suckling.

Wonderful the first 2 minutes and couple of big swallows then subsides and drinks like regular table wine.

Very animalistic.

Amarone Lunch

 Nice lunch I had last summer or was it autumn already, built around a bottle of cheap Amarone wine, that can be readily had here in Russia at lower-end supermarket chains.

Though cheap (for an Amarone), the wine is not necessarily bad

I think I got the pairing down pat.

Cheers!

Wine Lunch Last Summer in the Garden

 That was a nice little Rioja lunch last summer, fortunately, made pictures to remember it by.

Barolo in Country

 A bottle of cheap Barolo - Antario - enjoyed in the country whilst gardening

We liked it, great if short-lived nose, palate and body - peters out quickly though or the taste buds get saturated and unresponsive - whereupon drinks as a regular table red.

Sunflower Time

 The end of summer is sunflower time in our climate.

So the bad news is the summer is over and has been so for four days at least at time of this writing.

However the good news is it's only the calendar summer that is over, the astronomical summer goes on until September 22.

Also good news is this year I grew some sunflowers at my summer (late spring and early autumn too) country retreat.

They also do attract some insect life like bees and some fat bumble bees too, and they have a lot to do sucking out nectar from those things whatever they are.

Harvest Time: Zucchinis et al!

Harvest time at my country place!

Here is a Zucchini, a rather large one but not overgrown.

Or even like that - for scale only and not to imply anything.

And these are they still on the beds.

It is now late August in the pictures, and I grew them all myself which consisted of planting the seeds back in May and early June (I did it twice because many of the seeds failed to... gestate?) and weeding the weeds out, also watering them every evening when I was there.

Two weeks later.