Saturday, November 25, 2006

Makovy Strudl, Poppyseed Sttrudel

Happy Thanksgiving!
Some poppyseed for thanksgiving? My mum provided me with a good recipe. Here we are..

250 g of flour (the smoother the better)
1 egg
2 spoons of vineger
3 spoons of water
50 g of butter
little salt
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Mix everything together so that you have one complex piece and let the dough rest for an hour in the refrugirator. Then use the rolling pin to do make a thin layer as on pict. 1
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and the filling? Boil poppyseed with little of milk for 2o minuts, graze apples, mix both with razins and seeve for the liquids. Put onto prepared strudel layer and roll. Bake for aprox. 30 minuts on 450 F. DOBROU CHUT!!

Friday, November 24, 2006

Brazilian COOL Music

Hello my friends, My friend from Columbia introduced me to some cool music. If you would be interested listen to:
Elis Regina & Tom Jobim

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Carlos is fixed

Seems that Carlos is OK by now. Doesnt look as pretty as before, but has its own shape again..Happy Thanksgiving my friends

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Am I so conservative? Maybe, let me know

I saw this movie last friday, thought about the gags and jokes over weekend and tried to evaluated everything. Did not change my first impression, though. How can Sacha Cohen publish rude and irritating jokes about nation most of the Americans do not have any clue about.

In my opinion, these types of jokes are not suppose to be presented as a "blockbuster" movie. Why? I will give you an example. I saw this movie with my friend and 30 American teenagers (the only audience which came) in a movie theater in South Dakota. Most of them never heard about this state and think actually that its a part of Russia. This was their first impression about the ninth largest country in the world.

I like Sacha's type of humor. To some extent this reminds me of Monty Python. They however make fun of things people are familiar with. Borat is the type of movie which nations do about themselves, but in most cases do not allow to go abroad, especially not to the US.

Birthday

My mum is always saying.."I dont beleive that the girl (meanim me) is in America, when we call each other, its like her calling from Prague".. and y see, another proof, czech bread, czech cabbage soup, everything in czech, even the flovours look czech...

Thank you!

Thanks for all the concerns. Beleive me, I am allright. I just put the picture here in order to warn any potential drivers who do think that nothing can happen on a small road..

Macek

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Deer hunting season in the Midwest

uph.. a good advice, dont hunt from your car!!

State Farm estimates that 1.5 million vehicles collide with deer every year, resulting in $1.1 billion in vehicle damages.

So..in a nutshell...I was really lucky.

Comment on CO2

I heard about the possibility to sell your CO2 surplus before and agreed with that. What, however, surprised me recently was to such extent did this trade developed. This whole thing was first inniciated as an action which should support CO2 reduction in future. Yet it dramatically increased the number of companies which are spending more time searching for cheap CO2 rates than trying to decrease the actual CO2 production. The european CO2 carbon exchange program has its own websites, the whole process takes place online. Clean, without any emission. Companies may not even realize what is really being traded.
Some inspiration??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnTLKHtKnA

Sunday, November 12, 2006

7 Steps to HABANA

This group was full of musical surprises, but Viviana Pintado (piano) was just amazing

Trip to Minneapolis&St. Paul, the home of SNOOPY

My new roommate in my new apartment

SOFIA is my new roommate. After a 3 year experience of sharing appartment with my friends from Iran, Armenia and Turkey, I decided that I already know enough about middle East :-) .. Sofia is from Columbia, lets practise little spanish now..