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Breakfast
Had a great night's sleep upstairs. The window was open, but not a single mosquito. Amazing.
I essentially got a full eight hours rest, so I went downstairs to the kitchen with my Nook to do a bit of reading. (I'm incapable of reading in bed.) Flyura was already at work in the kitchen. “Don, why are you up so early?” We chatted a bit, but of course she felt she had to prepare me tea and something to eat. In the meantime she was making homemade noodles for the soup later in the day, a process I had never observed before, and she was also making bliny, the Russian equivalent of crepes.
Once Danila awoke, Flyura sent him to the garden to gather strawberries. When she came back she sliced off a couple pieces of ice cream for each of us (she sliced the blue cylinder of ice cream with a knife!) and poured the berries on top. Ice cream for breakfast? Who's gonna say no to that?
Most of the time when I've had bliny, they have been about the size of a small corn tortilla for small tacos. Flura made hers as big as a standard dinner plate and then cut them into fourths. We ate them by rolling each quarter up by hand and then dipping them in varenye.
There are other ways to eat bliny, i.e. like a standard crepe wrapped around filling, but this was pretty great for breakfast.