I used to blog about food. No really, look here and here and here.
Lately I’ve been busy. And by “busy” I mean busy reading blogs. But I miss talking about food and taking pretty pictures of it.
So I’ve decided to add a new weekly feature around these here parts. Every Saturday I will once again resurrect my food posts and also share with you what’s been keeping me busy out there on the interwebs. And by “every Saturday”, I mean sometimes Saturday, sometimes Sunday, sometimes not at all, if you know, life gets in the way.
In honor of my re-entry back into food blogging and in honor of Stephanie re-launching her new blog, Like the Vodka. My first food post snippet is a breakdown of the incomparable Russian delicacy “Fur Coat”
I know what you’re thinking, why? WHY? But honestly it’s delicious! Really! Now I can’t provide a recipe at this time because I’ve never made this delicacy myself, but the next time I catch a real Russian in action working hard on sewing the fur coat I will take lots of pictures and badger them for a recipe.
Onto the surf part (of surf and turf), here is what I’ve been reading this week…
- A list of resources on ways that you can help Japan.
- We gave money to ShelterBox, note that the donation amount will be in pounds.
- And now that you’re all depressed here is some funny to cure you. Guess who’s back to blogging? Tiffany! Check it.
- Do you have a hard time decoding what people really mean? Wendi is here to help!
- Just when I felt like throwing in the towel and complaining about this never ending winter, Tracy (who is overwhelmingly generous and lovely) offered me a new perspective on the season.
- My friend, Brittany of Mom Army fame, is doing a giveaway of her fantastic (and craftastic) felt food on her blog, Mama’s Felt Cafe. So stinking cute, go, enter, win!
- And last but not least, even though Mother Nature was determined to keep me apart from my sweet and lovely bloggy friend Nichole this weekend, (she was in Tahoe but the roads were closed! Curse you Mother Nature!) I felt like she was telling me this exciting piece of news over coffee.
That’s all folks! What I’ve been reading and eating. Thrilling, yes?
Never tried a russian fur coat but I would. Thanks for the list of posts. Already read Nichole’s fantastic news but it looks like there are many bloggers that I have not discovered. Off to read them.
Tim you are so sweet! I am so excited to introduce people to one another, just call me the Blog Yentl..BLENTL?
Lol Love it Yuliya. BLENTL is fantastic. So glad to find you through Nichole and Cheryl and all those other talented ladies.
Thanks for mentioning my craftastic blog giveaway! Unfortunately, even your fabulous photography skills cannot make Fur Coat look edible. I’m glad I did not attempt a felt version of that. It would have been disastrous.
I would imagine that the market for felt herring dishes would be quite small indeed!
Oh, I love this idea! And I was so bummer for you that you couldn’t see Nichole. But that news? Awesomeness!
Isn’t that just mean, oh your friend is an hour away from you but you cannot see her thanks to my snow, for shame mother nature for shame!
So does this mean you haven’t been been reading my this week? I was working so hard at it:)
Are you for REALZ YO? I’m pretty sure I’ve commented on everything you’ve written (like EVAH)…I’m reading you , don’t worry.
I am honored, Yuliya! Perhaps you’d like my husband’s recipe for Fur Coat, which for the first seven years of our marriage I called “Fish under a Blanket.”
But the big question is, do you eat the dish? Do you?
Hmm . . . that looks like a Lithuanian Christmas Eve dinner all on one plate! Yum.
Oh if you and I ever got together that would be a fest of epic (and possibly icky) proportions!
I’ll have to trust you on the fur coat, which I will never try.
Thank you for the sweet mention.
Have I mentioned I love you – in a purely platonic sisterly way of course. And my sister, I don’t mean mormon.
xoxo,
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P.S. So glad Stephanie is blogging again. She was one of my favorite speakers at Blissdom. So lovely.
Well I guess you will never play the “open your mouth and close your eyes and you will get a big surprise” game with me…because the surprise will probably be fur coat!
Dude I love you too AND I think the whole sister wives thing idea is genius! Someone to do half the housework and take care of half the kid(s)? Sign me up!
i admire those people who can be all ‘this is a feature i’m doing every (insert day of the week here)’ and do it religiously. i’m more like you with the ‘i’ll do this every saturday…kind of and maybe it all just depends.’ yeah.
and that is the most beautiful picture of beats. ina garten made a cold beet soup a while back that scared the crap out of me. this, however, is lovely.
Exactly, I don’t need the pressure! This was really more of a heads up to people that hate food posts to go ahead and skip em!
And you are welcome for the shout out, I am so glad you are back to blogging sister from another mister!
p-to the-s: thanks for the shout!
I’m so honored you’d reach out to a little Norwegian Lutheran like myself. Thank you, my dear babushka. (Babushka’s a word, right?)
If there’s anything blogging has to taught me is that I really must step out of my sheltered place and reach out to people, even Norwegian Lutheran people. Besides I think I peed myself laughing when I read that post, and now that I’ve invested in Depends I need to spread the funny…
Uh uh. My hubs is Jewish and my FIL adores picked herring. I can barely see it without being all kinds of grossed out. Love the pink but not the pickled!
Love the surfing links!
“Love the pink but not the pickled” needs to be a slogan for herring hating Russians everywhere. Don’t worry you’l be credited with inventing it.
I love this idea of you resurrecting the Saturday food posts.
They’ll be new to me….I ‘ll like that.
And your recap shout outs…good all around.
That’s what happens when you’ve got taste people trust.
Smart girl, you.
I hadn’t even considered running my old food posts, you are a genius! The goal is to do new posts and this was more of a heads up to those that hate food posts to avoid them
But not you, you gots to eats to gets meats on yo bones.
I love you, I really do, but I draw the line at the Russian Fur Coat. I am all onboard with the Saturday Surf and Turf, though, great idea.
You know I can’t link to you ever because people will abandon me for higher ground. That is all. (I love you too)
My husband loves himself some pickled herring. Nothing clears a room faster than that stuff. Recently, we discovered that one of my good friends also loves the herring.
They are allowed to have a herring-only affair together.
This is possibly the funniest herring related comment of all time.
I just got PTSD looking at that shuba.
So you like SHUBA or no?
Oh my – my family is Russian, and my grandma used to make that. It’s so good!!!! Unfortunately, she has passed away, and I missed my chance to get the recipe. I will be eternally grateful if you can find a could one to post. I’ve turned my husband and kids onto herring (beets is still a bit of a hard sell) – I’m trying to turn them into real “shtetl yids”
A shtetl yid! What a worthy goal! I really will try to document someone making this and post the recipe…might take a few months but I will do it!
How you made something that sounds so disgusting look beautiful and appetzing I have no idea. You’ve got skillz is all I’m sayin’.
Wat til I find pictures of tongue, or beef jello!
OK, for marketing purposes, the name needs to be changed.
I’ll give anything a try once, though you don’t see very many pink foods, ya know?
You are so brave! And we, the committee of Russian food acceptance is reviewing new name possibilities…
Uhm…can I be honest? This dish sort of scares me
It’s actually kind of shocking, that I, the Russian food reject-or would even like something like this, but I do.
You are a talented writer and photographer, but I think I’d rather eat playdough.
Ha ha! I could think of worse things to eat than a little herring…like those nasty flavored jellybeans, you know SNOT, VOMIT those ones, ICK!
I read this post days ago, but was too overwhelmed to comment. Now I’m back to tell you that the Fur Coat photo has been haunting me in my dreams. Thanks so much.
It has taken me days to respond to my comments, have you recovered yet? *hugs*
You, my dear, are just lovely.
That dish, however, makes me shiver.
Let’s pick a day when we think winter will be officially over and we’ll come up to see you guys!
It’s been known to snow in June here, I wish I was kidding. We just got supremely unlucky this weekend, but I know we can make it work! Have faith!
I’m the pickiest eater EVER, and as pretty as that is? I’d never go near it!
Sweet! More for me!
I’m sorry. I don’t think there’s any way I could eat Fur Coat. I just…I….It’s not your picture! It’s a beautiful, colorful picture. I think it’s just that…well…I’m a hick. And that pile of stuff is pink. And it’s not pink like frosting pink, but pink like naturally pink and it scares me.
I love your blog to death, but the mayo is freaking me out. xoxo I do love your food posts though. I’m happy to see they are making a comeback!
[...] *ADDENDUM if you are humor impaired or plan to turn your comment into yet another formula feeding vs. breastfeeding debate please be advised that the best case scenario is your comment will be moderated or deleted and in the worst case scenario a team of Russian clowns will be dispensed to your home to force feed you fur coat.* [...]