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 Went to Ģertrūdes 6, we have a kitchen there run by Ukrainian refugees. Food was decent (borsch good, pancakes forgettable, bread had an odd beer-like taste), live music was very good. A bit difficult to yell Слава Украине! while you’re eating. I think they also did open a second shop at the Āgenskalna tirgus today. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 19:30 on May 6, 2022 |
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I'm going to Riga in July, will check it out. In the meantime, the Latvian oddity of political alliance ZZS (agrarians + greens) has fallen apart. I'm too lazy to check, but I assume they will join a new alliance of backroom/hunter lodge deal guys
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a podcast for cats posted:I'm going to Riga in July, will check it out. In the meantime, the Latvian oddity of political alliance ZZS (agrarians + greens) has fallen apart. I'm too lazy to check, but I assume they will join a new alliance of backroom/hunter lodge deal guys Yeah was just opening this thread to post that. LZP-LRA-Liepājas partija are forming an apvienība, Kučinskis appears to be the boss. I wonder what happens now to LZS and Latvijai un Ventspilij - I guess they can continue to zombie on as Lembergs shills.
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Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri
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FishBulbia posted:Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri I have a couple of friends from Belarus who currently live in Georgia. Literally zero issues so far. One saw a group of Russians who behaved like poo poo at a store, and the owner refused to speak anything bug Georgian with them, but that's about it.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Our greens and agrarians are the same party, and they only care about property values of rich Latvian-speaking rural landlords. Therefore it is Latvian Greens, for instance, who are the primary instigators behind forever wars against wind energy, and now this as well. Obviously they have reasons to not like gas, but that’s really not what is happening here. for a country with several national dishes of grey peas, you'd think they'd be more accepting of gas
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Watching Russians in Georgia on YouTube, it seems that communicating is not an issue, though you will get asked about your stance regarding Putin and if you answer wrong, things will happen, I assume. Dunno, no one has actually tried saying they support him.
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FishBulbia posted:Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri https://twitter.com/pashkasu/status/1522622574840193028
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FishBulbia posted:Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri english is largely fine for day to day stuff, it's a country that runs on tourism money and has a language nobody else speaks; english is a necessity. Russian is in the weird position like many post-Soviet states where younger people are less and less likely to speak it, but it was also pretty widely available.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:bread had an odd beer-like taste
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OzyMandrill posted:That'll be sourdough bread. Sourdough bread is incredibly popular in Latvia, and this tasted nothing like what we make customarily. That said, we only bake rye sourdough bread traditionally, which has a hint of sourness to it, whereas this was wheat bread. Still, I’d expect wheat sourdough bread to have a hint of sour taste to it, rather than tasting like someone soaked wheat bread in pale lager and let it dry out.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Sourdough bread is incredibly popular in Latvia, and this tasted nothing like what we make customarily. That said, we only bake rye sourdough bread traditionally, which has a hint of sourness to it, whereas this was wheat bread. Still, I’d expect wheat sourdough bread to have a hint of sour taste to it, rather than tasting like someone soaked wheat bread in pale lager and let it dry out. Yeah, wheat sourdough tastes nothing like beer unless it's made really, really wrong. Source: I live in California, the sourdough capital of the Americas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampushka So, this is what I had, apparently, and scanning recipes diagonally a fair few of them involve sourdough. There was some unidentified “sauce” on the bread (face down, not seen on the photo). I wonder if that could have been some kind of garlic jam experiment gone horribly wrong, contributing more to the taste than I thought it does. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 7, 2022 |
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Ah, I thought they looked like chunks from a kolach, which I'm trying to learn how to make atm.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampushka I immediately knew these are “pampuchy” in Polish and that I must have had them at some point in my life, but for the life of me I have no idea when and if I actually did. I never saw them on sale anywhere in Poland that I can recall. Your post brought this out of some dark recess of my mind (possibly PTSD). Maybe my grandfather, who grew up in Ukraine, made them for us when we were kids 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampushka maybe they just really messed up the amount of yeast or the proofing time and overdid the yeast-y, beer-y flavor
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Different yeasts yield wildly different breads. I've used yeasts that produced really intense beer-y smells to the bread and, hell, there's a non-zero chance someone actually used a beer or wine yeast by mistake, too.
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Mokotow posted:I immediately knew these are “pampuchy” in Polish and that I must have had them at some point in my life, but for the life of me I have no idea when and if I actually did. I never saw them on sale anywhere in Poland that I can recall. Your post brought this out of some dark recess of my mind (possibly PTSD). Maybe my grandfather, who grew up in Ukraine, made them for us when we were kids Wait, really? They sell pampuchy everywhere in Poland. Edit: looking at the picture again that thing looks nothing like the pampuchy/kluski na parze I've seen, more like some sort of chałka. szary fucked around with this message at 09:29 on May 8, 2022 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Different yeasts yield wildly different breads. I've used yeasts that produced really intense beer-y smells to the bread and, hell, there's a non-zero chance someone actually used a beer or wine yeast by mistake, too. Wouldn't a beery taste come more from malted barley, possibly hops but malt would be likelier in a bread? Especially since sourdough uses wild yeasts so there's no way to select a specific strand.
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Sourdough starters are maintained and actively selected for. You don't roll the lottery each time you bake bread.
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Also depends on how the starter is maintained. A dry starter has very little smell, but I use a wet starter. It gets fed every so often, and you can either pour off the grey vinegary/beery 'hooch' or mix it back in to get stronger flavour. (I'm pouring off tho). The bread itself can be up to 1/3 starter, which could give some serious flavour if the starter is old. We're putting up a family so I want to make something to welcome and show that not all uk bread is tasteless machine crap. Not sure I'll go for a full on beer flavour tho...
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That's only if you use the starter directly. Another traditional way of doing it is to take some starter and flour to make a pre-dough, which in turn gets mixed into the main dough after the yeast has multiplied to its maximum (i.e. the dough is deflating again). That way the age of the starter is irrelevant and you get very consistent results.
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szary posted:Wait, really? They sell pampuchy everywhere in Poland. From Wikipedia: Prepared, uncooked pampuchy can be generally bought in most grocery shops in Poland.  I have nothing to say for myself, except that maybe I have a severe case of brainworms.
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Nenonen posted:Wouldn't a beery taste come more from malted barley, possibly hops but malt would be likelier in a bread? Especially since sourdough uses wild yeasts so there's no way to select a specific strand. Nah there's a specific smell of yeast fermenting carbohydrates that is the main smell people associate with beer before even getting into specific grains or flavorants. Also yeah, the other replies also hit the other major speculative ways you might end up with beery tasting bread eg overfermented dough or some seriously funky starter or unusual grains in the flour or so on. idk though I haven't been really into baking bread in like 15 years so I'm probably forgetting stuff
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Torrannor posted:Is that from HoMM3?? Yes, Rampart settlement.
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https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1523626962412965888 Nani the gently caress.
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FishBulbia posted:Do we have any Georgians? I'm ending up in the land of the Golden fleece for a bit. I only speak English and Russian, so it's going to be interesting to see how their ESL is there as I don't wanna get stabbed to death and don't know how well I can pick up the martian dialect of sumerian. Will post khachapuri I am a Belarusian living in Georgia for 6 months. EN and RU are the most common non local languages here, so dont worry.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1523626962412965888 His post today about it was something else. I've also just noticed that he's wearing a blue jacket next to her in yellow. I wonder if it's intentional. Hope he doesn't suddenly 'commit suicide' like the Polish border guard deserter some time ago.
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Quick request - is there anyone in Eastern Poland area who can PM me and give some local advice about travelling from Lviv to an airport in Poland? I'm struggling to work out what trains are even running.
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PMs but for anyone else interested, there’s a list if trains running between PL and UA. Travel for Ukrainian citizens is free on Polish Rail in 2nd class. More info: https://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/o-...9%20w%20Medyce. https://www.intercity.pl/pl/pomagamukrainie/
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https://rozklad-pkp.pl/en/ you can serach for trains here. Seems like Przemyśl is the main transfer hub. The closest airport is in Rzeszów, but it's small and has limited routes. Looks like it has routes only to Warsaw and London. So next (probably better) choice would be to go Lviv-Przemyśl-Warsaw.
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alex314 posted:https://rozklad-pkp.pl/en/ You forgot about
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What's even funnier is I've visited Lublin a couple of times, and drove past Rzeszów maybe twice. Never used plane though, waaaay too much hassle considering IC can be not poo poo on some routes.
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To be fair, it’s an old military field way out in the boonies with nary a train connection. Honestly, just go to Warsaw if you can, all/most the trains from UA go there anyway.
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Do people actually watch Eurovision? I just learned that apparently there are semi finals, and I haven't even heard they are going on so far.
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Xarn posted:Do people actually watch Eurovision? I just learned that apparently there are semi finals, and I haven't even heard they are going on so far. Yeah. I think it's post-ironic at this point for many, but it's a good enough excuse to gather a small party at your home.
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Xarn posted:Do people actually watch Eurovision? tell me you're straight without telling me you're straight
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