Can you believe Milton has been in Tbilisi for a year and the girls and I 9 months, I have to say the time has flown by. With homeschooling for 5 months, summer holidays for 2, a little bit of travel, setting up house and a Christmas and New Year, it's a year for us just around the corner.
When we arrived in our apartment it was a little like camping in regards to cooking, other than we had no BBQ. We only had 2 pots, a frypan, 4 plates, cups, etc, etc this was ok for a while as I got used to finding and cooking basic meals, but the time soon came when I needed to bake and casserole.
My cupboards are now bursting with a new KENWOOD mixer and blender, and the latest addition an amazing slow cooker. Thanks to the darling man of the house, he hunted it down and returned with it via France. Slowcookers cannot be found in Tbilisi, I'm guessing this is because they use some sort of terrocotta casserole dish which cooks things very slowly, a problem for me, even tho I'm hanging around the house most days I'm not about to sit and watch the oven. Why a slowcooker you may ask, well in the 8 months I have been here I have not once been able to finish a piece of steak. I'm not a big meat eater, I have never enjoyed visiting the meat section of the supermarket and I have always had a problem handling and cooking meat. Coming to Georgia has been a little bit of an eye opener in the meat department. I thought everyone that worked in the meat section, knew how to cut meat into what we know as different cuts, but no, the meat is often in huge hunks with fillet, sirloin and what ever in one cut. So with no English speakers and my basic Georgian language, we often ate meat that I had no idea what it was or how to cook it.
Since its arrival from France, not even 7 days ago the cooker has made an aray of meat meals.
So while its winter on this side of the world, I'm cooking up a storm and enjoying some amazingly tender meat, I will share a recipe with you every week, most will be from recipes I have found, with a few tweaks depending on availabilty of ingredients. Hope you enjoy and maybe try some of them when winter arrives for you.
When we arrived in our apartment it was a little like camping in regards to cooking, other than we had no BBQ. We only had 2 pots, a frypan, 4 plates, cups, etc, etc this was ok for a while as I got used to finding and cooking basic meals, but the time soon came when I needed to bake and casserole.
My cupboards are now bursting with a new KENWOOD mixer and blender, and the latest addition an amazing slow cooker. Thanks to the darling man of the house, he hunted it down and returned with it via France. Slowcookers cannot be found in Tbilisi, I'm guessing this is because they use some sort of terrocotta casserole dish which cooks things very slowly, a problem for me, even tho I'm hanging around the house most days I'm not about to sit and watch the oven. Why a slowcooker you may ask, well in the 8 months I have been here I have not once been able to finish a piece of steak. I'm not a big meat eater, I have never enjoyed visiting the meat section of the supermarket and I have always had a problem handling and cooking meat. Coming to Georgia has been a little bit of an eye opener in the meat department. I thought everyone that worked in the meat section, knew how to cut meat into what we know as different cuts, but no, the meat is often in huge hunks with fillet, sirloin and what ever in one cut. So with no English speakers and my basic Georgian language, we often ate meat that I had no idea what it was or how to cook it.
Since its arrival from France, not even 7 days ago the cooker has made an aray of meat meals.
So while its winter on this side of the world, I'm cooking up a storm and enjoying some amazingly tender meat, I will share a recipe with you every week, most will be from recipes I have found, with a few tweaks depending on availabilty of ingredients. Hope you enjoy and maybe try some of them when winter arrives for you.
Go Julia Rubue Childs!! You inspire me :-) Had a dream about you all last time...miss you lots. Love to all the Bourginers ;-) xxxx
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ReplyDeleteI stumbled upon your blog searching for information about homeschoolers in Georgia. Do you actually educate your children at home? I thought, georgian law says visiting public schools is obligatory?
You have a very inspirering homepage!
Good luck and all the best,
Colin