Brown bear

This is the second card sent by Svetlana from Belarus. I like it very much. I also learned new words in Russian thanks to her presentation of Belarusian nature reserves.

National Village Museum, Bucharest

This is a card sent by Polen who gave me a list of Turkish and Romanian dishes she likes. I hope I'll find some time to try one of these dishes soon. Maybe in May with all the bank holidays :)

Minsk

Svetlana sent me this postcard representing the station of Minsk, and shared with me the recipe of a chocolate cake she likes very much. I'll try to translate the recipe soon (it is written in Russian) so that I can make the cake and publish it here.

Draniki

Thank you Anna for sending me this nice postcard of this typical Bielorussian dish, "draniki", along with the recipe. I've tried it and I've liked it!

Here is the recipe:

Draniki

12 medium potatoes
1-2 tbsp flour
7-8 tbsp vegetable oil
1 egg
1/2 glass of sour milk, salt
1. Peel the potatoes and grate them, add flour, sour milk or kefir, egg, salt and mix everything.

2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Lay the potato mass with a tablespoon in separate small pancakes (each no more than 10 cm / 4" in diameter). Cook until crisp and browned, then turn on the other side.

3. Serve hot with sour cream.