Feels Sloooooow

More bits of green and peach on the left.  This thing is so big and I'm so in the middle of it that I feel like I'm making no progress at all.

Gaguz - Ethnic Food In Moldova

Moldova does have a few different ethnic groups.  One is the Gagauz, a Turkic Christian people who have their own language and whose second language is Russian.  They live in the region around Comrat and have an autonomous zone in the area.  We went to a restaurant here in Chisinau that specializes in Gagauz food called Ga-Guz.  This top dish is pickled red cabbage and onions, served cold.  No beets, although it looks like it!  The flavor was tart and crunchy.  I liked it; Andreas did not.  It's served no matter what you order.

The obligatory shop salad came covered in dill, but the cheese on it was wonderful.  The bread was fried and fluffy!  This is so unlike most Moldovan bread, and I loved it.  My soup was somewhat fatty, but full of meat and vegetables.  The meat was lamb. 

Andreas had the lamb kavurma, which is basically tocana but with lamb instead of pork.  It was also spicier and served with mamaligia.  I had a very tender and moist chicken dish that reminded me, spice-wise, of chicken cacciatore.  We will definitely be back!

Fill

Did some filling in this time.

Half A Bouquet

I have half a bouquet done now.  It's finally beginning to look like real progress.

A Pothole

 We are eagerly awaiting winter and the icing over of roads.  The reason is pretty obvious from these pictures - potholes.  The one here is on the road between my house and the Russian ambassador's house, two blocks away.  Once the ice and snow come, the road will smooth over considerably, as the city doesn't plow at all.  

We drive down this very short road at least twice a day.  It's been like this, and only gotten worse, for the year we've been here.  I wonder if they'll ever fix it.  Most of the roads in the residential areas off major thoroughfares are like this.  Some are completely unpaved.

One More Precious Gem Done

I finished this, and I think I'm going to use it, the blue and orange one, and the blue one to make an ornament.  Wish me luck!

Breakfast With Flat Stanley

 Four of us embassy wives went out to breakfast on the last day of September.  The restaurant we descended on was Seasons, and they have good breakfasts!  Their oatmeal came with strawberry yogurt, and the Ukranian pancakes were very moist and cheesy, even if they came with sour cream instead of syrup.

Flat Stanley was there for a friend's son.