Well … end of the week is here so it is time for some impromptu godless, or downright blasphemous fun time. Enter two plastic figures – Jesus “Action” Christ and Albert “E=mc^2″ Einstein.
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Greek Celebration Bread (Christopsomo)
March 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Bread, Personal, Photography
Before my new copy of Peter Rheinhart’s book on Whole Grain Breads arrives in the mail, I decided to revisit his timeless classic “The Breadbaker’s Apprentice” and give a few more recipes a try. After battling a cold all last week, skipping my workouts and following less than a desirable diet, I decided to go out with a bang and picked a very aromatic and sweet recipe straight from the Mediterranean – The Greek Celebration Bread (Christopsomo). The recipe pretty much guarantees a complete sensory overload – sweetness from honey, rich satisfying taste taste from milk, eggs and olive oil and complex aroma of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, almonds and lemon.
Tags: Bread·bread baking·celebration bread·christopsomo·greek
God bless you Dr. Kevorkian
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Personal
I don’t remember what my first encounter with Kurt Vonnegut was, but it must have been impressive. Impressive enough to prompt me to look him up and to read some of his novels. I think it all started with his last one – A Man Without a Country, which I listened to while I tried to fall asleep one night. I did eventually fall asleep, but only long after the book finished. Then came a classic – Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel which undoubtedly is one of the best written books I have ever read. Browsing through library stacks one day I stumbled upon a tiny little book with an intriguing title – God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian.
Tags: Books·Kurt Vonnegut·quotes·Reding
And the spicy mess was banished …
April 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Cooking, Personal, Photography
From our kitchen, that is. Over the years we have accumulated quite a collection of spices. Starting with asafoetida (or hing, if you insist), through berbere and cardamom pods (both green and black) to vanilla and yellow mustard – it was all in there, stuffed several rows deep in a cabinet. An unfortunate consequence of this arrangement is that every time we needed a bottle of spice that was not in the first row we had to rummage through everything and inadvertently drop some of them on the counter.
Welcome to redesigned asmirnov.org
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
The old website is no more. I have moved the worthy content into the new WordPress format and content management system and removed the old unncessary fluff that has not received a hit in months. As a result of this migration I expect to disappear from google search results for a while but hopefully bounce [...]
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![Climbing the narrow stairs to the tallest
tower of the Spissky Hrad Castle [photo by Francis]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_NE-WwB-gC7I/R2Rbso1l2OI/AAAAAAAACo0/Jo6eXAmXaQ4/s64-c/100_1886_tweaked.jpg "Climbing the narrow stairs to the tallest
tower of the Spissky Hrad Castle [photo by Francis]")
