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 Yesterday we continued with the fight for the vaccine, same fight as yesterday just this time we’ve contacted a translator.

I’ll tell you the whole story, just in case you might’ve lost your believe in mankind, now I’ll redeem ourselves.

So, we told Sari’s mom about our issue with the translation, she has a colleague who know someone who lives in Warsaw, so the colleague called her friend who asked for our phone number. She called us in like an hour maximum and basically solved our issue. Now we are only waiting for the translator to answer and I believe we are good to go. Or get vaccinated! Amazing!

Besides dealing with the vaccination, I had a few other programs yesterday. We days ago I bought some batteries in Lidl because my car key has died like months ago. However, the batteries I bought are not the same as the batteries in the key, hence I thought I would return it and everyone would be happy. Although I had the receipt and the unopened batteries the cashier told me they are not buying back batteries. Bummer. If I may suggest don’t buy batteries in Lidl, and check the type of your battery before buying a randomly chosen, because that will be no good.

After I got back from Lidl I started preparing our lunch: polenta. Although I’ve found different informations about this dish, some say it’s an Italian food I has always known it as a Hungarian or Szekely dish. However its origins can be tracked down to Roman times, where they used millet because corn wasn’t introduced to Europe yet. And it’s also turned out it’s no only a Hungarian food, it’s eaten in Northern Italy, Swiss(?!) Balkan, Romania, and Moldova. Wow! Allegedly it was the food of the poor, which makes sense because the ingredients are corn, water, if you wanna do some fancy version cheese and cottage cheese — I think this is the Hungarian/Szekely version. Although it’s a cheap food I think it tastes really good! 

And it’s easy to make as well. You boil 3 times more water than grained corn you wanna eat, then when the water is already boiling you can slowly pour the corn in the pot, then the corn will finally sponge up the water, you add the cheese and when it’s really hard to mix/mingle — whatever word is the correct here — your dish is ready. Oh, and you have mix the thing continuously to make sure it doesn’t get burned. We usually use this dish as a side dish, however yesterday I just put some cottage cheese, sour cream, and bacon on top of it and it worked great! 

*I’ve just read what I’ve written so far… yeah great food/cooking-blogging Almos, amazing job… But I’ll try to redeem myself with the picture of my creation*




We were also planning to go to some museum, but due to an unexpected class of mine we had to postpone it for Thursday — maybe.

That’s it for today, I hope you are doing great,

Take care of yourself folks, in Warsaw hospitals are full as I heard…

Have a great day,

Almos

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