Sweet pasta

I made Ukrainian vareniki -- basically pasta filled with fruit and served as a sweet dish.



Much more successful than my one and only attempt at pel'meni, which stuck together, ripped open, and were incredibly stodgy...( Read more... )

Waiting for a cure

I've re-sealed the edges of the kitchen sink, because I didn't do a very good job of it last year and I was worried that water was getting down the back of the sealant and soaking into the edges of the worktop (my washing-up tends to involve quite a lot of water splashing round). In fact I had a lot more trouble stripping off the old sealant than I anticipated, and I think a lot of the discolouration was just hard water.

Anyway, it has now been redone more smartly, and I need to remember not to use the sink for five days until it has fully 'cured'. I have put the pot with the wooden spoons in the middle of the sink in an attempt to remind me not to dump washing-up in there on auto-pilot!( Read more... )