Easy candy recipe

When i found this recipe i didn't believe these candies can be tasty. But I'm curious enough to try!

For making these candies you need

3 glasses of flour (yes, flour!)

1 glass of sugar

150 g of butter

milk,

vanillin, cinnamon (to your taste)

nuts, halva, almond - whatever you like for filling

decoration

First of all you need to fry flour until it has color like this (takes about an hour):

After that take your pan off the fire and mix it with sugar, butter, vanillin, cinnamon and filling (important: it must be crushed) as well as possible. Then little by little add milk to get the mass that can be easily molded. Make balls or other shapes out of your mass. Decorate it how your imagination suggests you!

Let it cool down completely or put into the fridge for some hours (then it'll be even more tasty!).

I've made candies with crushed halva inside and outside :) (see picture above).

My family is pleased :)

Best for eating with a cup of tea or milk!

Bon appetit!

P.S. Be attentive: these candies are very nutritios 'cause of flour!

My simple meatless pickle soup

Pickle soup is a dish from a Russian kitchen, very delicious in my opinion! It differes from an ordinary vegetable soup in using pickled cucumbers and pickle itself and groats. Let me tell you how i've cooked it recenty.

All you need is:

200 g of pickled cucumbers
200 g of pickle
big carrot
onion
potatos
200 g of pearl barley

Put a casserole with water on fire. Chop onion and rub a carrot on a grater and put them to the hot pan, make fire less and mix time after time. 

Chop cucumbers into pieces, put them into a hot pan with some water, stew it.

Put pearl barley into boiled water, chop potatos into pieces and put them into a casserole as well. Through about 15 mins put both pans contents into a casserole and add pickle. Add spices and salt if needed. Through 3-5 mins soup is ready!

It's best with feeding with sour cream!

Bon appetit!

P.S. Traditionally, pickle soup is cooked with meat, but this is my vegetarian variant for the fasting.

A little parent thing

Imagine that: you're a parent of a 1.5-year-old baby. For sure, much money goes on this prettiest creature in the world :) Your baby sleeps in his little bed, and you think that it's time for a personal baby pillow now (if you've not used it before like i didn't).
I looked through the prices on pillows of not very big sizes and i made a conclusion that i'd better do it myself to save some money. Baby's pillow has to be made of an artificial material 'cause it's more healthy. In my case the best material is sintepon: it's artificial, warm and soft. And not expensive! It's about 3 $ for a meter.
I used sintepon 150 cm in width and 180 cm in length (don't use much of material - the pillow is gonna be too thick then for a little kid), so i spent about 5 $ on it all.
Just fold sintepon in the way to form a pillow, put it into a pillowcase - and that's it!
That's what i have:

(sorry for bad quality)

My pillowcase size is 60cm x 60cm.

My kid is pleased with his personal pillow - it's the main thing!

I hope this post is usefull for you!

P.S. You can either sew the sides of your pillow or leave it how it is (i didn't sew it). If you don't, then you can use it in another way: to make another pillow, light coverlet or a nice pillow for your couch! So many ways to use it!