Today was shopping day. I needed to go to the old market to see if the sock lady had gotten back from Minsk. She hadn't. I also went to all the vegetable stands. And since I was right there, I checked out the Humana. They made an announcement, but I didn't pay any attention, because I knew I wouldn't understand it. Some little fat lady had dropped off some things, so I had 2 skirts in my hands and was admiring the shawls. A young woman from the store came up to me and said, "Excuse, 40% fiveteen minutes." I was not sure whether she meant in or for fiveteen minutes, but she was able to understand my production of the Lithuanian word for now and my hand gestures enough to know what I meant, and I went out happy that once again I had gotten a bargain, even though the money would have gone to a good cause. One of these days I need to give that some real thought. It seems a bit chincy, or a lot.
My next stop was at the puppet theater to get tickets for tomorrow and Sat. nights. There is some sort of festival this weekend with childrens shows during the day and adult ones at night. We can't go on Sunday night because we want to be able to say goodbye to more of our LCC friends at church. One of the librarians had sent me a 20% off coupon for the tickets, so it was bargain day all around.
After a stop at the bakery for a couple of chicken pastries for our lunch, I headed home.
Hearing fiveteen did make me wonder why we sandwich fifteen in between fourteen and sixteen with seventeen, eighteen and nineteen trailing behind. Do any of you guys know?
Today was teaching day for Del, so after he got off I want to Iki to get the light weight groceries, and he stopped for the all important liquid refreshments on his way home. I need to get one of those grocery carriers on wheels, but I think that will require a trip to Hyper Maxima, and I haven't had time.
Tomorrow is drink coffee while the young guys take their exam, and I wanted to bring a treat, so I needed to get a package of puff pastry dough. Lillija is not familiar with pecans, even by their Lithuanian name, so when I found some at Hyper Maxima a couple of weeks ago, I put them aside for this occasion. I used a modified version of the ever popular favorite of all Southerners, pecan tassies. I couldn't find US style brown sugar, so I substituted granulated Demerara. It looked sort of light brown. Wikipedia told me that it partially refined, naturally brown sugar while typical brown sugar which is refined white sugar with molasses. I knew that last part. The consistency of the filling was drier than with packed brown sugar, but that worked okay. It also has a milder flavor, I think. I also had to substitute vanilla sugar for vanilla extract, because I can't find it here. It seems to work. Since I had neither tassie pans nor pie crust, I cut squares of rolled puff pastry, put in a dab of filling and pinched 2 diagonal corners together, leaving the other 2 open. They taste okay, but you don't get the full flavor because there is not as much filling.
It was a beautiful, though chilly day today. It felt good to get out and wander around in the fresh air.
I'm still waiting for food peculiarities. Hint, hint.
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