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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • @Kit Sorry for being late to this thread. As someone else said, if it’s also getting cold where you live, you can put things outside, in the shade. Here there are 12 degrees Celsius, but in the night it will be 1. Either way, in my country, if there is any vegetable out there we pickle it (we’re mostly doing this with cucumbers, green tomatoes carrots and cabbage, but you’re free to experiment). Here’s a simple recipe for that:

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1sCw00Zz…

    You’re basically putting these vegetables into salty water, or in a mix with water and vinegar, along with other stuff. If it’s not that cold, it’s even better, as the vegetables will become pickled faster.

    You can also search for Romanian pickles or reteta muraturi on YouTube (if you’re okay with not understanding the language).

    Another thing that we do is polenta. We usually eat it with cheese and sour cream, but as these require a fridge to keep, you’re free not to use them.

    youtube.com/watch?v=WUmbtQu1eL…

    This video is in Romanian, but the steps seem pretty clear. Here’s what you need:

    • hominy
    • 2 teaspoons of salt
    • water
    • butter/olive oil (optionally, for a more creamy consistency)

    The rest should be self-explainatory.






  • 70 schools still had “inadequate toilets”

    Only 70 left? I’m surprised. Guess that’s the result of all these EU funds. They’re probably the only schools where the politicians managed to actually steal these funds, as they are notoriously hard to steal.

    Shout out to all these people in the countryside that vote for PSD on every election, then complain that they do not have anything.

    A while back this year, a commune was left without running water due to not paying the debts to the water company. What did the mayor say: Y’all have gotten used with the good times. You neglected your wells, destroyed your backyard toilets, and now you suffer. People have gotten mad, the mayor said he’ll resign, and then the debt were paid, and the mayor announced he’ll no longer resign.

    At the latest local elections, the mayor received more votes than at the previous elections. And that thing is just an example…












  • @101 In my country the Russia-friendly folks are more creative: they take advantage by the crime that Moscow did prior to WW2 in order to justify their opinion that we should not involve in helping our neighbor. And the fact that they somehow discriminate the Romanian minority in the territories formerly owned by us (of course they do not do that as they’re eyeing European integration, but fake news need to go round) is used to somehow temper the sympathies for Ukraine.

    It doesn’t matter that Ukraine is fighting an enemy that is even less likely to return these territories to us, who will more than certainly treat the Romanian minority in these territories at least 1000 times worse than they are treated now just to get rid of any trace of Romanians living there if they control these lands by any means. It doesn’t even matter to them that the enemy that Ukraine is fighting actually owns our entire national treasury since the end of WW1 (comprised of old documents and art pieces but also tons of gold) and if we would border them, we would share half of our border with a hostile neighbor owning the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world.

    All it matters for them is to not get involved into other’s wars