Having dinner alone: pan cooked chicken in tamarind-soy sauce.

Today is Monday, as always Arsen is playing chess on the Monday evenings. So I decided to have normal dinner instead of waiting 22-23.00 and eat some fast made sandwich or something like that. Some 2 weeks ago I bought tamarind paste from our supermarket, it was toooo cheap, just 10 Rs, that's about 100-120 drams. I read about this fruit - so decided to try it today. Me and Arsen call such kind of food Chinese. Actually I don't know how Chinese is this, but the taste is really something! So here we go ;)

 

so this is my dinner for today, Nona and Mike would like this :) if you want to see the process, just click to view more

 

 

 

 

 

cooking-mooking

Today I started posting my own cooking recipes in one of Russian great cooking forums. The original website url is http://www.gotovim-doma.ru . I have learn so much from this website and always can find the answers to my questions.

I should say that I am not a fan of cooking with exact recipes, I always change something :) Maybe I want everything to be mine. So today I just realized that now I can cook almost everything. When I came to Mauritius I didn't know how to cook at all.. or maybe just a bit. Well - we were never hungry :D

So maybe I should put this on my list of what I have learn during this year:) Well, if you know Russian you can follow up my recipes by clicking here , if not- you can check up the pics I have to take during cooking. Hope this post is not that much boring :D

Just putting some 2 pics what I made today. Mini fast pizzas on old bread:D and Choco-Coco tart:

Arsen vs Roy

Arsen is going to play chess with/against Roy tomorrow - September 14.
Roy is the strongest chess player of Mauritius. But Arsen is also a strong player!
So I believe everything will be ok - he needs to play very attentive.

Just wanted to wish good luck to my love :) I know - you can do that! Don't hurry up - you have time

Current template problems, please Help!

I just finished customizing this template with my blog. I like it.
But I have a problem. Do you see those Read More buttons? I had problems with their functionality. By default it's said that I should include do this steps:

How to hide article’s content on the main page
As this template got ‘Read More’ function, you probably want to hide some text from being displayed on the main page. In fact, you just need some extremely easy step to achieve this. Simply copy the highlighted code below, then access into ‘Settings’ and under the ‘Formatting’ tab, paste the code into the ‘Post Template’.

< span class = ” fullpost ” >  < / span >
On the next time you write an article, you just need to add this line of code to hide the text. For example,
< span class = ” fullpost ” > Here are the texts you want to hide < / span >

so I did, but nothing happened. I have all the text I write in the post visible on home page.
Can someone help me with this?

mixed post: the Chess Competition, Jason's party, the Monopoly!

An english post. Not so much text - many photos instead.

The Chess Competition:
We were waiting for September 5. The day of Chess competition between 2 Mauritian clubs. Arsen plays in one of them. That day I went with him to the competition. As alway I was the only supporter :) and the only female. I wanted to take some photos from the match. Here are some of them. Arsen is not here in pics- the original photos are in RAW format, I need to transfer them to jpeg. Maybe later I'll add some.

this man is a doctor. He was very friendly person - it was a pleasure to talk to him. He is the only Mauritian I know who speaks Russian and has been to Armenia.

This is Roy, the strongest chess player of Mauritius.

and this is me. Just one shot during the match.

Jason's Party:
During the chess match I am the secretary of Arsen and I need to answer the calls instead of him. So I got a call from Jason, a guy from Australia who was working with Arsen. He was going to leave Mauritius after couple of days. The first association that comes to my mind about Jason is the work f*ck and a happy face :) he was a really nice person! Well he told they are going to have a dinner at Twin's Garden, a restaurant just behind our complex. Our chess team won the competition - that was good. Finally we were at our town, Flic en Flac, we met Hayk (one of armenian guys) and went to Twin's. Wow, we were not alone! so many guys - and again I am the only female. we had some dinner and bear - actually it was not that tasty, anyway. After some time the show begun. Mauritian national dances - Sega. The meal was not perfect - but the show was something! and the guys starring on dancing girls...mmm.... after the show they invited us to try dancing, that was funny. No more talk. see the photos.

forgot to say we had a private dance with my husband :)

and after that he found some other girl :D

and the others too :P

the sega show, the girl on the right was something! reminded me of Jessica Alba.

do you see the dancing guy? that is Justin, pixel artist - it was to funny watching his Sega dance!

Our dances. I should go and learn right Sega dance at some dance school.

The final dinner with Jason:
As I mentioned Jason had to go after couple of days, so we invited him to have a dinner with us. It has become a tradition in our small family. Everyone who is going to leave the country should have dinner, mostly homemade pizza and play Monopoly. That day I decided to make something else than only pizza. So I had to make a dough. I baked Adjarakan Khachapuri, it was really good - even I liked it. It's some kind of open envelop doughwith white cheese and eggs baked in the oven. Well we also had pizza and wine. Everyone was full..brr.. I did'n take any photos that day, next time I'll do that.

..and the Monopoly!
as I told it has become a tradition to play Monopoly before saying Goodbye. I should say that started playing this game just some 3 months ago and did it only some 5 times. At the beginning my position was awfull - I thought I'm going loose everything..but.. as always I won with lot's of money! Two male and on female, and again I won it! the same was with Mike (a Japanese guy who was working as a designer with Arsen).

I wish I could be so lucky with my design contest.. I'll tell you about my unluckiness in future posts.
well, I guess his is all. The only thing to mention that the shots from Jason's party were made bay Diganta.

Thanks for reading :)

gtnvac eraz, korac gisherain qun

cereknery chem dimanum - shat hetaqrqir erazner em tesnum, dra hamar el gishernery chem qnum. cereky jamy 14-i mot amenahetaqrqirnern en linum. grete misht mut a. hima aravotva 5.23, gam gisherva. es korcrel em im gisherain quny.

inc lriv es "mkan" pes em zgum. men menak datark kxzum, dzen dzun chka u misht mut. chnyacac grete amen or hetevum em tapancik apakuc drneris hetevic sevy vonc a spitak darnum. hervic.