Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry.
He can speak Ukrainian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and German. Barney did not learn to drive until at least 2005.[4] It is almost impossible for Barney to take a bad photo, as he always appears standing in the exact same pose, independent of the pose he was photographed in (Rob...
My husband’s Ukrainian grandmother taught me to save potato water to use in making pyrohy (pierogies) dough. It makes the dough nice and tender, never rubbery like it used to turn out before I learned that tip! Reply Jeanna McBride says: September 9, 2012 at 1:44 am Awesome idea...
Once you’ve got your hollowed out egg you can do all sorts of crafty things with it. To make an ornament, thread ribbon, string, or twine through the holes. Using a extra long crafting needle really helps. If you need to enlarge your holes to fit the ribbon, use your pin to gently...
Russian lieutenant Daniil Alfyorov accomplished what the rest of Vladimir Putin’s army failed to do when it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine: he reached central Kyiv. Speaking into a cluster of microphones while sitting between two Ukrainian military intelligence officers in October, th...
one for a husband's sister, zolovka] Right, so Grandmother allotted to Aunt Nadia and Mama one or two ridges in our kitchen-garden and said to them: "Sow some onions, and here – take this goose, too. If it breeds any goslings, they're all yours and you can go and sell them."...
Do whatever it takes, using whatever kind of symbols or notes you need to get the right syllables out in the right order. (The apple is there to remind the speaker to say that “a” like they would in the word apple.) If you’ve run out of time to ask students themselves, or if...
I am of the opinion that my grandmother loved few things more than feeding people. I have had many a bloated belly that can attest to that. Countless guests have sat in her kitchen, nearly foundered, only to hear: “Weeeell…you’ve hardly touched your pie.” ...
My favourite wasBab’Mariawhere owners, Natalie and Yaroslavl have brought their grandmother’s incredible Ukrainian recipes to life. Next, head to the meeting point for yourEnglish guided city walk tour. Let the local experts talk you through the city and go deeper than simple sightseeing. Throu...
Growing up, I'd known this plant as "pigweed". I could remember my grandmother saying how much she loved it as an edible green, but I couldn't for the life of me remember anything about how she actually prepared it. So I called gram. When I asked her how to cook it, she told ...