I woke up today and decided to be perky all day. I’ve been letting this place get the best of me and now that I realize that, I’m taking action. Cindy was a bit surprised at my perkiness since she said that yesterday I was a pain in the extremity, which is one of the reasons I decided to be perky today. Things just seem to go better when you are perky.
We had a lovely little morning stroll before coming back for coffee. Cindy made some marvelous French toast with bits and pieces of bread that we had laying about. Due to my perkiness, she threw me out of the kitchen and did all the clean up without my assistance, which gave me time to do a few loads of clothes. We had planned on driving to Auchan but there is fresh snow and silly drivers so we’ll walk over to the grocery store and get what we need for the next several days. I’ll be doing heavy commissary shopping on Tuesday; I’ve mentioned that they have free delivery if you buy more than $100 worth of stuff, which isn’t hard to do there. This way someone else can carry all the heavy stuff and I’ll just bring back the light stuff and some of the frozen goodies.
Last night I used up the last of what was fresh in the larder and made a Salmon Spanish Tortilla. I pan fried sliced potatoes, onions and garlic until they were nice and brown and crisp. I added six small eggs that I had whipped with a little bit of ice water. When it had set up a bit I did the old flip over and turned the heat off and let it finish cooking from the residual heat of the pan. While it sat there I spread crème fraiche on the tortilla and topped that with chopped bits of smoked salmon. If I had had fresh dill, I would have used it with the salmon but I didn’t so I used parsley. I cut the tortilla into quarters and served it on a bed of spinach along with some toasted dark bread and a lovely bottle of Vinho Verde. Here are a few photos.
I’m going to have to learn how to think through events here in Moscow. We went to the grocery store today at about 1:30 figuring everyone would be done shopping by then. Quite wrong! It seems that everyone took two weeks vacation and they all came back to Moscow last night or this morning and the store was jammed! We managed to get what we wanted but there was a lot of bumper car mentality with the carts and I was happy to get out of there still feeling perky as opposed to pestered.
I was still thinking about all the wedding parties we saw yesterday. It appears that a part of the wedding mentality here is overt conspicuous consumption. The outfits I’m sure are expensive, but they are expensive everywhere. What the Russians do is rent the largest, longest, gaudiest limos and drive all around town for photo ops at all the popular attractions. These cars are enormous and always covered with flowers and filled with drunken members of the wedding party. Outside the Kremlin Walls yesterday there must have been fifteen of these chariots all lined up and waiting, while on the main drag going into Red Square there were five or six more loading and unloading their passengers for photos and drinking experiences. I hope we are invited to a lavish Russian wedding before we leave so I can see what goes on at the reception.
Hope your weekend was a good one, Cindy and Wm
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