I am talking about a recipe as a Christmas gift - a recipe as a picture on the kitchen wall. If there is a particularly beloved dish that gets made fairly often and has become a favourite with family members or guests, it can be framed and hung in the kitchen. A recipe presented this way becomes both a part of the kitchen's interior décor and an original gift.
Christmas is fast approaching. It's time to start thinking about gifts for family, close ones, colleagues, friends. I always enjoy making something by hand, so this time I'll show how to make a fragrant decoration from natural ingredients - fairly simply.
This Saturday we headed off to Pärnu with a rather prosaic aim - to buy different and cheaper products, as well as pick up some clothing. Below are a few observations and recommendations for those who are also planning a similar shopping trip.
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Without delving into the history of democracy's development and without analysing its advantages and shortcomings, but contemplating democracy and capitalism (even such as it is in Latvia), one can very quickly arrive at a break in the thread of thought, followed by - "yes, but...".
Mārtiņi in Latvian annual folk customs marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. It is also a joyful celebration, as this is when the quiet time of the dead ends and the mummering season begins. In modern urban life we are unlikely to slaughter a cockerel, but we can certainly prepare a roast chicken or goose.
You have surely noticed promotional products that are either priced higher than indicated on the promotional sign, or at the till it turns out the new price has not been entered into the system. This time RIMI has taken its creativity a step further - indicating the promotional price not per unit, but per a fraction of a unit!
If one imagines the mood created by Čaks's poetry, for some reason an autumn evening on the streets of Riga immediately comes to mind. Wet cobblestones, puddles reflecting something yellow - the moon, lamplight or a maple leaf. Yet leafing through books of verse, autumn as such is rarely mentioned in any poem. Be that as it may, let us commemorate Čaks on his 110th birthday by rereading a few poems about autumn that have come to hand.
A truly masterful escalation of emotion in the face of inevitable destruction. Such is the film "Melancholia" by controversial Danish director Lars von Trier. For a fuller impression I recommend watching it on the big screen.
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This year in Latvia, the switch back from summer time to winter time will take place on 30 October 2011 at 03:00 (on the night from Saturday to Sunday), when the clock hands will need to be turned back one hour. When such a time shift happens, one cannot help but wonder who and when first had the idea of all this fuss?
Looking at politicians' manoeuvres around questions of occupation and ethnicity, there arose an involuntary impulse to look into history and find out - just how many ethnic Russians are there actually in Latvia? I wish to draw attention to the following statistical data, namely concerning the ethnic composition before and after the Second World War.