#bread ring

[alittleglassofmilk]

This is a rare Bring (bread ring). Reblog the Bring and get loads of tasty bread. If you don't repost the rare Bring, every piece of bread you eat will never be as tasty. You have been warned.

[rude42]

Rosca de Reyes This yeasted bread ring, called rosca de reyes or pan rosca in Mexico, is similar to king cake. It's a rewarding treat to make at home to celebrate Epiphany.

[paye-tarecherche]

Yeast Bread - Rosca de Reyes

[hoardingrecipes]

Spinach Artichoke Dip Bread Ring

[guardians-of-the-food]

Warm Feta Cheese Bread Ring Dip

[kitchensanctuary]

Dough Balls with Cheesy Chard Dip

  A great big pan of bread and cheese! What Dad wouldn’t want this for a lovely Father’s day lunch!

It’s so tasty, Chris didn’t even seem to notice the fact that I was serving him something without meat.  Not a single suggestion for a sprinkling of bacon :-)

This lovely one-pot meal is great for a family get together.  Just plonk it on the table and let everyone dig in.  The added bonus is that…

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[olga-s-blog]

Can we use bread ring* instead of an engagement one?

(Bread ring* – traditional Russian bakery product, called sushka)

  The picture is taken from the web-site http://while.pp.ua/sushka.html

Can we use bread ring instead of an engagement one? It was the very question that a Norwegian boy with typical Russian name Nicholas asked me. Suddenly and quite funny! You never know what question occur to come to  a kid’s mind. But I felt prepared for anything... Last Friday I made a presentation about Russia in school of a small Norwegian settlement Onøy.

In Norway you will never find bread rings, they just do not exist here. As well, there are no small pies with cabbage, potatoes and sweet gingerbread (which are very popular in Russia). We passed smoothly to discussing that after my telling about  traditional Russian cuisine, which is very different from the Norwegian. But it is not the subjeсt today.

 I noticed long ago already that people abroad know too little about Russia. Often their ideas about our country reduce to a pair of triple funny video from YouTube. For example, a very popular one is about tank which rides on Russian road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxUj0reYs0), or videos in «Meanwhile in Russia » style. In foreign TV-channels news usually reports only negative information: suppression of the government opposition, neglecting the homosexuals’ rights and prisoning the Greenpeace representatives … Often after such stories about Russia I am overwhelmed with mixed emotions. At the same time, nobody knows about good things we have. Rich history, culture, originality.

So when I was invited to make a presentation about Russia in school, I gladly accepted that. This is a small, but a real chance to create a positive picture of the country in the younger Norwegians minds.

 I was preparing for this meeting for several days. I felt afraid of being boring, or even worse - "incomprehensible" because of the strong Russian accent ... As it turned out, my fears had been unfounded.

In school, I was welcomed warmly. Pupils and the teacher was preparing for this day the same properly as me. They told me about the settlement and the school, showed a presentation about horses, staged interview. I was impressed how fluent children of 10-12 years old spoke English. Some of them did it almost freely.

- What kind of juice would you like? - Nicholas asked me on a lunch break. This simple example demonstrates how easily the boy enters into the conversation in English (and of course, the makings of a gentleman). He asked me many questions, one of them touched upon my knowledge of Norwegian. So I was able to impress him with a pair of simple sentences: «Jeg heter Olga. Jeg kommer fra Russland. Jeg bor pa Nesna ».

In my presentation about Russia, I tried not to overload children with facts but to a greater extent involve them in different activities. So, we made currency exchange calculations with NOK and Rubles, tried pancakes, prepared in advance by the traditional Russian recipe, read together the Russian alphabet, learned the phrase “Меня зовут” ("My name is"), «Как тебя зовут?» ("What's your name?") and the counted from one to ten. After that kids practiced Russian independently in pairs and groups.

I was watching with interest how enthusiastically they tried to speak a foreign language. How then, quite unexpectedly, one boy asked me “Как дела?” ("How are you?" in Russian). Later it turned out that Russian wasn’t new for him. That, however, can be understandable. In the small village Onøy few Russian speakers live. A woman from Chernobyl, Ukraine, whom I met in September during my first visit to the island. And a man, an official translator into Russian. I was lucky enough to talk to him as well. Surprisingly, he speaks without any accent so if I could meet him on the street I will probably think that he is Russian.

A few hours that I spent in the school passed unnoticed. Partly because we played a lot of games. The teacher told me that’s the way kids grasp and learn the language the quickest, so they pay a great attention to that. In conclusion, we saw an excerpt from my favorite Russian (Soviet) cartoon "Bremen Town Musicians» (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daIZqNUfvqY).

After that some guys hurried home, others stayed longer and thanked me for pancakes, presentation and time spent with them.

I'm sure I’ll remember this day for a long time, as well as the question of Nicholas “Can we use bread ring instead of an engagement one?”