It’s been so hot in New York in the last couple of days. I don’t think the record was beaten, but we probably got very close. It’s so funny, how people always complain about weather - it’s too hot, it’s too cold, it’s raining, it’s not raining, it snowing, it’s …. But whatever - temperature, precipitation, humidity and such are our weapons when it comes to making small talk.

I’m literally sticking to the chair (it’s a leather computer chair), good thing that most of the time we have AC on.

My mom used to call me “Водохлёб”, which translates from Russian approximately as a “Water Gulper”. She was even afraid that i have sugar diabetes, because I love to drink water, and she wasn’t sure if the amounts I consume are healthy. When it’s hot those quantities double!! The only person from the people I know who can match me in this is Eldar. One day we should make a water drinking competition! Well, not sooner then we buy a house with at least 2 lavatories though.

Last week I discovered a nice place which sells a variety of cheeses which are normally not found in regular supermarkets, such as mascarpone, parmigano reggiano, sheep cheese and fresh goat cheese. The goat cheese is just so delicious, that I can’t stop buying it. Dan’ka refused to even try - his loss. I like all the milk products. My grandparents lived in the village Семерники (it’s about 120 km away from Minsk) and I spent a lot of summers in their house. They used to keep a cow and my grandmother could make different soft cheeses. For one of them she was boiling cottage cheese in milk for quite a long time, then butter, spices, eggs were added and cheese was put in a cold place for setting. Very easy farm recipe, I loved eating that cheese with honey.

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Ёла says:
July 21, 2006 @ 01:14

О, я помню этот замечательный домашний бабушкин сыр. У меня наоборот в детстве были напряженные отношения с молочными продуктами и мне кажется, только после этого сыра я стала есть и другой сыр. А еще ты брала его с собой в Крым

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Alena says:
July 21, 2006 @ 08:03

Ой, как приятно читать твой комментарий! Про Крым я и вовсе забыла, а ведь и правда брала…

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Таня says:
July 22, 2006 @ 06:16

Очень аппетитная фотография : )
Было очень интересно прочитать о приготовлении сыра твоей бабушкой. У моей все было попроще…
А то, что ты водохлеб, я даже не знала : ) почему-то…
Кстати, прочитала, что в некоторых районах Нью-Йорка нет электричества. Надеюсь, у вас все ОК!!

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