https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/Exploring the Flavors of Irad · recipes from my kitchen in Talas Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/12/five-years-of-kundoluk-and-a-plov-for-you.html Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:50:00 +0600Newshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/12/five-years-of-kundoluk-and-a-plov-for-you.html This November Kündölük is five years old. It opened when I was still writing on MyPage by FTP with my nephew :) I moved here four and half years ago and now there are so many comments that my sister says, "it is not a blog, it is a tea room". Thank you Dilnoza-apa, Jen, Vika, Nurlan, Aunt Maria,…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/03/sumolok-a-night-with-twelve-women.html Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0600Holidayshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/03/sumolok-a-night-with-twelve-women.html The pot at sunrise. We found the walnut. Not me. It is Nauryz and I did not sleep. Every year the women of our street cook sümölök, a sweet wheat paste, for the whole night. It is only wheat sprouts, flour and water, and a lot of stirring. We put stones (or walnuts) in the cauldron to keep it from…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/01/cooking-when-the-light-goes-tandyr-primus-and-pa.html Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:40:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2009/01/cooking-when-the-light-goes-tandyr-primus-and-pa.html This winter the electricity comes for four hours and goes for four. You never know. I make a plan every morning with a piece of paper on the fridge. At 7:00 the light is on, I boil the water and cook rice. At 11:00 it goes. I have a primus, a wood stove in the yard, and the tandyr that my…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/07/green-walnut-jam.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0600Sweetshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/07/green-walnut-jam.html The walnut tree behind my uncle house in the village. The nuts are still green. The old rule says you pick green walnuts on Yuhanna night, before they are hard inside, and you make jam. My uncle picked 100 for me. The hands are black for two weeks after! Wear gloves. I did not wear gloves.…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/03/the-new-prices-at-bazar-i-kalan.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:30:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/03/the-new-prices-at-bazar-i-kalan.html Everybody asks me about the money after the 17th, so a little note from the kitchen, no politics. My basket this week, in the new money rate: Bread (non): 2.50 som, before it was 2.00 Potatoes: 1.50 per kilo Rice from the Chu valley: 6 per kilo Mutton: 38 per kilo Onions, carrots: around 1.20 So I…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/01/kok-kaska-the-soup-of-the-blue-helmets.html Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:20:00 +0600Soupshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2008/01/kok-kaska-the-soup-of-the-blue-helmets.html This winter we eat a lot of what the aid people bring. Big tins of beef, flour in white sacks with letters, beans, tomato paste in a tin. The people from the United Nations are in the city since October, and at the first week everybody laughed about the blue helmets, "kök kaska". Then somebody's…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2007/07/we-are-alright.html Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:10:00 +0600Newshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2007/07/we-are-alright.html I did not write for seven weeks. Many of you sent me e-mails to ask, thank you, I could not answer, Attelkom was down and then the electricity, and then I did not want to write. We are alright. My family is alright. We stayed at home, in the cellar for some nights, my sister and her children came…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2007/04/nettles-and-young-sorrel.html Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:30:00 +0600Soupshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2007/04/nettles-and-young-sorrel.html Spring is here and in the mountain villages the old women come to the Bazar-i Kalan with big bags of green. Nettles, sorrel, wild garlic. Winter is over, the body wants vitamins. My grandmother calls this soup "the first green". Boil broth (mutton bones), add a handful of rice, one potato. At the…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2006/12/a-strange-week.html Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:20:00 +0600Newshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2006/12/a-strange-week.html No recipe today. This week was very strange for all Talas, you know why. The Americans left on the 3rd, then on the 9th the new flag, and for a week the neighbours came in and out of my kitchen like it is a railway station. Nobody could sit alone. I made the big pot of plov on Saturday for…https://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2006/09/beshbarmak-beef-only-beef.html Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:45:00 +0600Main disheshttps://blog.attelkom.net/zarina/2006/09/beshbarmak-beef-only-beef.html The big plate at my cousin's husband family, Chatkal side. 12 people, 1 plate. My cousin's husband is from a village near Chatkal and when his family cooks beshbarmak it is like a small holiday. Name means "five fingers", you eat it with hands. Many people ask me can I use horse meat like in…