I’m in Moscow for only twenty-two hours, having arrived yesterday at four and I’m due to depart at two today. We arrived in snow and traffic and it took more than an hour to get back to the apartment. I immediately started doing laundry and we managed to get two loads washed, dried and folded before we hit the hay at ten.
Dinner was a catch as catch can event but it turned out to be innovative and delicious. I had read an article in the Financial Times about the proper way to prepare Cacio e Pepe pasta, a Roman favorite using only three ingredients. It is like making a risotto only with pasta and you use the water you cooked the pasta in to help finish the cooking and make it creamy. I did the basic recipe but added roasted garlic and lemon rind, cooked together in a little olive oil. When it was almost done and creamy, I added three beaten eggs, for protein, and continued to toss it around until the egg mixture was incorporated and it was a lovely creamy picture of perfection.
We watched the BBC news and felt joy and surprise that a grandmother and grandchild were pulled to safety in Japan after nine days of being trapped in rubble. We watched NATO turn military tanks, trucks and rocket launchers into rubble as the pounding of Libya continues. We were saddened that Bahrain continues to round up the usual suspects and put them in jail and out of circulation. We were angered at the media for having made the world believe that the Pearl Roundabout was some type of special square that had some mystical political significance, when in reality it is just a traffic circle that had a lovely monument to the Gulf States. Now the Bahrainis have destroyed that symbol and we continue to protect the royal family with our silence.
It is almost time to go and it is snowing and I’ve got to prepare to march to the Metro through all the slush and water with my luggage. Who said you can’t have fun in the winter in Moscow?
Ciao, Wm
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