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As a kid I had endless hours of fun with my cousins and sisters. With sometimes five of us squashing into one of the old style telephone boxes, somehow managing to close the door behind us we would start dialing numbers chosen at random from the telephone directory.

The typical conversation being:

“Hello, can I speak to Mrs. Walls Please”? said in a rushed squeaky voice!

The person at the other end would usually reply “sorry, wrong number”.

And thus we would respond in a breathless giggle “well, can I speak to Mr Walls then”.

This might go on indefinitely and to include Great Uncle Walls, hopefully long enough for the recipient of our humor to say, “THERE ARE NO WALLS IN THIS HOUSE”.

And this was our queue for the punch line of: “Well, how does your roof stay up then”.

HAHA!

This style of humor was often followed, once we had got over our fits of giggles, by one of us standing underneath the all imposing clock tower in Rhosneigr town center and asking passerby’s for the time. Or back into the telephone box to ask if some poor housewife’s washing machine was running. Hopefully for a positive reply so that we could respond with “you better go and catch it then”.

My mother used to tell me of what she used to get up to with friends: the tying of door knockers together, pulling the string and watching many doors open at the same time and some confused residents wandering what was going on. Or the tying of a bit of string across the road so that the local bobby would find his helmet suddenly knocked from his head!

Such gentle humor in retrospect and compared to what we are issued up on television these days! Producers have taken practical jokes to a new extreme with each program trying to outdo the next in daring and shock and none more so than the Japanese who took it up a notch and past what any civilized person would call ‘funny’. The program that I remember was shown on British television maybe fifteen years ago and was based upon practical jokes and endurance tests for a series of what I would call mad people!

Scenario: A newly wed couple, having exchanged vows repair to the open air reception. It seemed to be rather a grand affair with hundreds of people, marquees and even an archery range nearby for guests use! Anyway, after a few speeches and toasts the bride having had a few drinks was persuaded to take a shot at hitting a target. Picking up the bow and fitting an arrow took some teaching but after a few attempts an arrow was fired in the general direction of the target. When the arrow would have hit the target (if it had been going anywhere near) the husband, who had been hiding in waiting staggered out from behind it. Covered in tomato ketchup over his white shirt and with an arrow suitably affixed to his chest he fell to the ground, thrashed around for scenic effect and with a final scream finished his acting debut in the death position.

The wife meanwhile having seen the effect of her shooting was in hysterics, thumping the ground and had a knife been handy she would have ended her own life there and then! Staggering blindly to her supposedly dead husband she held his limp body in her arms. Weeping untold sadness and apology she looked down through the mist only to find him winking at her!

I am certain that the couple did not repair to a bed of roses that evening, nor would they have a merry chuckle about the day’s events over a cup of hot cocoa that night! But the main aim of the show and the practical joke was not about the wife’s feelings, but about providing an audience with some good humor. And judging by the laughter of the guests, the husband’s satisfaction over the success of his practical joke and the audience’s laughter it was a total and resounding winner.

I imagine though that the wife was either seeking annulment that very same night or was to spend time in the local jail accused of murdering her husband with a meat cleaver. Naturally she would not get her sentence reduced through ‘justifiable cause’ - the convicting judge stating that she obviously had no sense of humor and would therefore serve the full term without parole.

But that was ten or fifteen years ago and from Japan, a country that considers endurance tests unworthy unless more than half the contestants nearly die or end up in hospital with some serious disorders. Back home in the UK, with the more morally justifiable humor things were following another path, people no longer wanted ‘fun’ or revenge on the next door neighbor they wanted fame. Before long every man jack and his border collie wanted to appear on TV, to have their ugly mugs shown to the world however embarrassing it might be to themselves and their family, friends and neighbors.

Young guys and girls lined up by the thousands to sing songs off-key and totally sadly, hopeful models tried to get through to a contract with some high profile magazine which preferred girls to be anorexic rather than ones who might have just come from breakfast at MacDonald’s and the one-man bands who thought the London Symphony orchestra was the next step would not have sounded out of place amongst a steel fabrication yard at full swing.

These young hopefuls with their five minutes of fame on national television embarrassed themselves to the laughter and giggles of millions of viewers. Pet owners, gardeners and cooks, poor people and rich all made a spectacle of themselves and willingly so, just for five minutes of fame! Strangely enough this search for glamour and fame even spread to the already rich and famous. Actors and politicians, famous cooks and authors, wealthy tycoons and nutty scientists suddenly felt left out as viewers tuned in to average person and sort of forgot that there was already a large vat full of famous people! So sadly, the already famous people jumped on the bandwagon and started to appear on gimmicky fame and fortune shows - six weeks living on a deserted island (with a full cast, helicopter support, satellite communication and nights back home in LA), cooks trying their hand at singing a Christmas Carols (resembled a nail being drawn harshly across the blackboard) and groups of already famous people bickering stupidly as they pretended to live together for six weeks!

Hope all those seeking five minutes of fame got what they were looking for….!!!!!

Throughout all of this decade long turn from fun seekers to fame hopefuls the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and TV stations all over the world loved it. Here they had prime-time programs with minimal content, easily stocked with poor actors who would pay to appear and no end of viewers to tune in. So with thousands of hopeful daily the world was given endless showings of anything from large models having cat fights to ex-cons attempting to lift mini-coopers with their bottom lips!

All a bit sad really!

The question that should now be asked is: “do any viewers of these shows actually take them seriously and ache to be part of it one day or are they all laughing their heads off at the poor ‘now famous’ people on stage”? The answer to this ultimate question may lie in the asking of another question: “do these same people think that the sport of wrestling is a well-staged and choreographed event, purposely acted out for television viewing or do they think that it is a sport entered into with the full vigor and enthusiasm of say boxing”?

But whatever, life is currently taking a turn for the worse! Fame has grown slightly boring, viewers have realized that “too many cooks spoil the broth” or that nobody can really remember those famous wonders of yesterday for longer than five minutes, except those that had really terrible voices or whose mug resembled that of an escaped convict! Nowadays new prime time shows are emerging, those that involve either fun and fortune or fame and fortune! Shows with contestants, shows offering fame and all with a large cash donation to the winning candidate’s purse at the end of it all! So, the already famous are being pushed aside once again and hopefuls of all shapes and sizes and ages enter willingly into endurance tests, assault courses and into embarrassing displays of inability in varying forms, but at least the dangled carrot more than made up for viewer’s laughter.

What maybe the ultimate in sadness are the shows that emerge from the United States. The one that I pick out, shown endlessly during prime time viewing hours on the satellite channel of AXN, is called Fear Factor. This program is described by AXN on their website as:

“It’s no holds barred on Fear Factor as the hit reality series returns with the promise of more gut-wrenching dares, more death-defying feats and more creative stunts as ordinary people face their most primal fears in another explosive season ……….…………… It’s three fears to face, three stunts to complete and three steps away to a cash prize of up to US$50,000 in every episode of Fear Factor. Meet ordinary people in the most extraordinary situations, where their physical and psychological limits will be tested, all in the hope that they will be the final one left standing at the end of each challenge”.

Sound good? Here is a program that combines the dangled cash prize and the fame for the contestants. The fun part is when one can no longer take the program seriously. I have watched this program many times or flicked through upon realizing that AXN once again has nothing to offer viewers during the evenings. This program is like Baywatch, watched seriously by males and females the world over because of the promenaded bodies that flaunt tit and bum in a very unnatural way! There was no flabby lifeguard on Baywatch, no slow-witted flat-chested female sashaying across the beach to save a life! Fear Factor follows closely in this regard, all the female contestants seem to have breasts that struggle to be contained within their skimpy clothing and the males are all muscle-bound and short of a decent conversation. These are not ordinary people, what is served up here is a stage show that provides the three elements of requirement for today, fun, fame and fortune!

What will it be next?

About the Author

Author and Webmaster of Seamania. As a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy he has sailed the world for fifteen years. Now living in Taiwan he writes about cultures across the globe and life as he sees it.

How to Succeed in the Poker Freerolls Part 1 looked mostly at what cards to play and when to play them, in Part 2 we take a look at other factors that you need to be aware of in order to succeed in the freerolls.

7. Watch your opponents and learn their playing style.
You can learn a lot of valuable poker information just by watching your opponents playing style and habits at the table. Do they bet almost every hand, do they sit back and wait for a good hand (like you should!), do they fold easily at the first sign of a raise, do they just want to see a free card, is there a “maniac” who raises every hand?

8. Concentrate on the game.
If you want to find out how your opponents play, you need to concentrate fully on what you’re doing. Don’t write emails while your playing or surf other sites, and turn off that TV!

9. Avoid hesitation.
If you hesitate before you make your move then it is seen as a sign of weakness. In the freerolls you don’t have the luxury of watching your opponent’s reactions and one of the few “tells” that you have is the speed at which your opponent makes his move. The worst sin here is to hesitate for a while then check, you have just told the table you don’t have a hand but you want to see the next card. You will simply be raised straight out of the hand.

10. Don’t chase draws.
It can be very tempting when you see that you have a straight draw, (eg you’ve got a 6 7 and there’s a 5 and 8 in the flop) but the reality is that this hand rarely produces a winner. If you can see the other cards free or for a cheap call then by all means take a look, but remember at this point you have absolutely nothing and your opponents have almost certainly got at least a pair.

11. Remember that your opponents will play different cards from you.
Just because you are doing everything right doesn’t mean that they will too! People will play all sorts of hands, especially in a freeroll and you can expect some crazy bad beats. Particular attention should be paid to the possibility of straights, if there are three cards on the table like 5 6 8 for example, there’s a good chance somebody might be playing with a 7 4!

12. Treat the freerolls seriously.
Although you’re not investing any money to take part in the freerolls, you are investing a chunk of your time so take them seriously. They are a good training ground for learning tournament skills and to win one is a very good achievement.
Not to mention you could win some money!

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In popular culture, the years between 51 and 65 are considered the empty nest years. During this time in your life, your children have moved out of the house to start their own lives, but are still too young to be bringing grandchildren over to visit. With no child rearing responsibilities to take up their time, more and more empty nesters are spending their days at the poker table.

In fact, casino attendance from this age bracket is at an all time high. It is reported that approximately 29% of all casino players fall between the ages of 51 to 65. When you look at the demographics of players in general, this age bracket has the highest percentage of players than any other defined age group.

What does it mean to run to the casino from an empty nest? Well, given the modern obsession with poker and increasing casino attendance overall, you may simply be running to a group of likeminded individuals in your age bracket. The fellowship at the poker table is the modern equivalent of shuffleboard or bridge nights for providing empty nesters with social functions to fill up their time. Casinos foster fellowship between their attendees by providing areas to eat and chat. If you are more of an online player, you can find the fellowship you crave through forums and chat functions.

Blackjack Card Counting Made Easy

By using computer trials, it has been proved mathematically that certain cards are favourable to the player and others are favourable to the dealer.

Depending upon what cards have been played, you can determine what cards are left, and this influences how the player should play his hand.

For example, if more cards are left that favour the player, the player now has an advantage and can raise the bet size to capitalize on his advantage.

Card counting in blackjack helps the player make choices that give him an edge.

Card counting should be studied by anyone wanting to make long-term profits as it gives the player an edge over the casino.

Two Card Counting Myths

Let’s first dispel two common myths on card counting.

1. Card counters do not memorize every card that they have seen dealt out of a deck or shoe.

2. Card counting also does not allow a player to foresee with certainty what card will be dealt out the deck next. It is simply a probability theory that will put the
odds in your favour over the long term. Short-term results can of course vary.

Card Counting Logic

So how does a blackjack player actually card count? Many different techniques have been researched and are practiced to keep track of the cards played from a
deck. Here we are going to use a very simple but effective one.

Before you start to count, you need to know blackjack basic strategy. ALL card counting systems are based on it, and it provides the best way to play following
on from the hands that have already been dealt. It’s easy to learn, and is soon committed to memory.

For those who don’t want to rely on memory, pre printed charts are available.

Basic strategy lets you play at just under even odds with the casino, but card counting takes the advantage one step further and allows you to have the edge in
your favour

The method below is easy to learn, and with some practice, you will be ready to play with the odds in your favour.

You can if you wish then move on to other more complicated strategies that may increase your edge further, but this is a perfect introduction.

The Lazy Way to Count Cards

Lazy card counting is as easy as it sounds. It doesn’t take a lot of concentration or calculations, and makes very few demands on your memory.

In blackjack, a deck rich in face cards is an advantage to the player.

All you need to do with this method is observe the cards coming out of the deck. For example, if you are playing a multiple deck, and after a few hands, you
observe that very few face cards or aces were played, then you have a situation where the next hand will probably be good for you the player, and you should
increase your bet accordingly.

The Key: Look for Extremes

The key to success with this method to is to always look for extremes. The absence or predominance of exposed high cards is easily noticeable by any player.

You will often play several hands where the mix of face cards and low value cards are relatively even.

As soon as you see an absence of exposed high value cards, you should increase your bet. This is because the odds of a face card being dealt are now also
increased which favours you the player, and you should bet accordingly.

It’s simple but effective in putting the odds in your favour and is perfect introduction to card counting.
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(NC)The leaves have turned, pumpkins are ripening on the vine and most of Canada’s apple growers are in the orchards harvesting this year’s crop of apples for your enjoyment throughout the winter months. It is well known that apples are nutritious, as are apple-based products like pure apple juice, apple sauce and dried fruit snacks. But now more than ever, as research is showing that apples contain important anti-oxidants, apples and apple products are an important part of your family’s diet. Why not take advantage of the season and introduce new, innovative ways for your family to enjoy them everyday.

Here are a few simple ways to increase your apple consumption and boost your anti-oxidant intake:

• Choose juice over pop. Apple juice contains health-promoting phytonutrients - natural antioxidants - and is usually fortified with Vitamin C.

• Liven up a simple salad by topping it with pieces of fruit or strips of Sun-Rype Fruit to Go bars.

• Want to try something new with that jar of Sun-Rype Apple Sauce? Try these suggestions:

• Use apple sauce on top of ice cream and sprinkle with granola for a healthy sundae.

• Swirl into yogurt or cottage cheese for a low fat parfait.

• Warm up crisp fall mornings by topping pancakes or French toast with hot apple sauce and a dollop of sour cream.

• Replace vegetable oil or butter in most recipes with an equal amount of apple sauce. Apple sauce lowers the fat and calories when you bake.

All it takes is a little imagination to increase the number of apples your family gets in their diet. And, of course, apples make it easier for your family members to get the five to ten daily servings of fruit and vegetables recommended by Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating. Harvest season is a great time to experiment with apple products to see how they can enhance your meal times, for more creative ideas and recipes visit www.sunrype.com.

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All right you’re looking for a exciting way to relish in skiing? One is sick of the same old ride, the skiing chair lift and then snowboard quickly down the run to your luxury chalet which everyone is doing? You should begin heli-skiing. One will be able to feel pure snowboarding expanses that few other boarders have an opportunity to snowboard.

But what is heliboarding? Heli skiing is snow boarding, however rather than using a ski lift to ascend to the top of the track, you fly up in whirlybird. Heli-skiing opens up novel virgin slope for your snowboarding fun.

Characteristically heli boarding jaunts involve a small group of snowboarders steered by a skilled mountain guide who knows the mountain. Punters are taken to the summit of the area to be tackled. {They get out of the helicopter and snowboard to the end of the slope. At the end they are met by the helicopter to take an additional descent. They could do numerous descents in a day. It’s an enjoyable and stimulating undertaking where you’ll see vistas and undergo adventures other people can merely dream of.

Heliboarding is not without perils. Since you’re snowboarding off conventional ski runs there will sometimes be unknown hazards. You will likewise have a greater chance of avalanches. As luck would have it a lot of these hazards can be decreased when one goes heliboarding with a skilled ski guide who recognizes the slope extremely well.

Psychologists say that admitting a problem is the first step. Read why this may not be true in New York.
As all great personalities sometimes do in private, I would like to admit a problem. The problem is that most people on this planet (besides me and possibly some other folks whom I am fond of) are thoroughly screwed up. I know this because during my daily commute to and from work, I often kill time by observing other passengers on the train. The preliminary conclusion to my study is that there are approximately eight hundred thousand different categories of people in New York. In an effort to make the public aware of these seemingly detrimental genetic mutations, I would like to discuss some of these categories and their negative characteristics.

The most noticeable of these individuals are those who feel that they are distinguished public speakers and the subway car is their pulpit. These people start off by announcing their current financial and housing situation, sometimes even informing us of their lifetime employment history. Next, we will sometimes hear them describe what is almost certainly private doctor-patient medical information. After this they ask us for donations and hold out a bag for us to place money or spew vomit into. They usually end off by wishing us a blessing or cursing us for being stingy rich ingrates.

Of all of the strange creatures on the New York City transit system, these solicitors are by far the most noticeable, and this is no coincidence. They are produced in labs in Argentina, and in a highly selective screening process, only the lowest, most tainted specimens are selected for advancement to the Chernobyl training facility (a subterranean instructional workshop, by chance located directly beneath the famed, allegedly dormant Chernobyl Power Plant). During a grueling seven-month training period, these varmints are educated in shower avoidance and unpleasant odors. They are instructed in the art of persistence and annoyance. They are also taught how to keep themselves constantly on the verge of drunkenness. Once they finish their course, they are then transported via intricate tunneling structures to the New York City Sewer System. After a six-week incubation phase, they are individually migrated to the subway system, which will be their home for basically the rest of their existence.

Although, as previously mentioned, this panhandling clan is the most conspicuous species on the trains, several years ago, the New York City Department of Transit Annoyance became sensitive to the need for another infuriating variety of individuals to plaster the subway with. The only trouble was, the city at that time lacked the funds to implement high quality training similar to that of the transit solicitors. Therefore, Edward Koch, the New York City Mayor at the time, grabbed several bearded individuals at random, subjected them to an hour of being hit on the head with plutonium mallets, and handed them saxophones. They were then escorted to subway stations and have been there ever since. The introduction of these people, who can make any music sound like burning industrial waste, opened the door for many other strange individuals. The subway became a system full of diversity when it comes to weirdness. New York City officials were ecstatic. This was the first time that the word “ecstatic” had ever been used in the same sentence as “New York City”.

Over the years since these developments, the New York Subway System has degenerated not only to a cesspool filled with vile, crazed madmen, but it has reached one of the lowest qualifications possible for a situated location. That’s right. According to some, the New York City Subway is an actual tourist attraction. For those of you who have never been outdoors, let me explain what tourists are. Tourists are the most primitive class of the human species. They are inquisitive, excitable, always smiling, and usually have crying children. They are more disgusting than the subway solicitors and more annoying than the saxophone players. They wear strange clothes and take pictures of us normal people, as if we were the ones who were more noticeable than an elephant trying to hide inside of a matchbox.

I apologize if I seem a bit prejudiced towards tourists, but I am still a bit raw from recent tourist exposure. Out of boredom Monday night, a friend and I decided to go to the top of the Empire State Building in Manhattan. After waiting about thirty minutes in a line filled with overly excited tourists, we finally crammed into a tourist-packed elevator for a ride to the tourist-crowded observation deck. We went outside to get a better view, only to be hounded by tourists who felt no shame in asking that we take their picture for them! Not only that, but they spoke with British accents! You have no idea how hard it is to resist the urge to finally find out what happens when a camera hits the ground from a 1250-foot drop. Although I think I will be all right one day, I will be forever scarred from this ordeal. I can still hear their high-pitched British voices echoing in my head.

So there you have it. I, unlike most great individuals, have admitted a problem. Now, let’s see you do the same. No, don’t tell it to me - go announce it in public on a New York Subway Car.

About the Author

Aaron currently works as a software/web developer and writes in his free time. He also runs a growing web-based discussion forum at http://www.chitchatforums.com. His personal work is on display at http://www.spetnik.com.

Russian Salad

Description

Wonderful salad will be a great appetizer with vodka and decorate your holiday table. It will take at most 10 minutes to make it.

Method

Combine grated cheese with chopped eggs and dress with mayonnaise.

Ingredients 200 g grated cheese. 5 ea hard-boiled eggs. 100 g mayonnaise. greens

Apple Salad

Description

Unexpected combination, but really tasty. Refreshing light salad will go fine at th end of the dinne to relieve the feeling of satiety.

Method

Cut apples into small cubes. Chop eggs finely. Add peas, mayonnaise and stir thoroughly. Decorate with greens.

Ingredients 4 ea apples cored and peeled. 3 tb green peas. 2 ea eggs hard boiled. 3 tb mayonnaise. greens

Beet Salad

Description

A very good appetizer for any occasions. Beet is very useful for digestions and contains a lot of trace elements necessary for a man.

Method

Grate beets and cucumbers, chop garlic cloves finely. Combine all ingredients and stir in mayonnaise. If you don’t like garlic, don’t use it, the salad will be tasty anyway.

Ingredients 2 ea beets boiled and peeled. 2 ea pickled cucumbers. 2 ea garlic cloves. mayonnaise. salt.

Boiled Potatoes with Pickles

Description

Boiled potatoes with pickles is a true Russian dish at any time of a day or a year.

Method

Cut potatoes in small cubes, add finely chopped pickled cucumbers and onion. Add salt to taste and dress with oil. Stir carefully.

Ingredients 250 g potatoes boiled. 80 g pickled cucumbers (sauerkraut). 60 g onion. 60 g oil..

Cabbage Salad

Description

Cabbage Salad is very delicious and healthy food, rich of vitamin C. This salad can be a wonderful snack or delicious appetizer.

Method

Serves 6

Cut the cabbage in half and carve out the core. Using a long sharp knife, cut the cabbage into julienne strips. Discard the thicker ribs of the cabbage leaves. Sprinkle the cabbage with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and rub the strips with your hands to make them softer and juicier. Cut the onion and apple into julienne strips and combine with the cabbage, mayonnaise, and carrot shavings. Add salt and sugar to taste, then chill.

Ingredients 1 firm head of cabbage (as white as possible) about 1 1/2 pounds. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1 medium onion. 1 large apple, peeled and cored. 1 cup mayonnaise. 3-4 tablespoons thin carrot shavings. Sugar to taste. Parsley sprigs and/or thin wedges of red-skinned apples.

Carrot Salad

Description

Carrot Salad is really healthy appetizer full of vitamins. It is better to dress the salad with oil or sour cream, as carotene is assimilated better in rich medium. Carrot salad is very good for the sight.

Method

Serves 6

Peel and grate the carrots and apples. In a bowl combine them with the remaining ingredients except walnuts for garnish. Chill and serve decorated with the apple slices and walnuts.

Ingredients 3/4 pound carrots. 2 large apples. 1 tablespoon Horseradish. 1 tablespoon olive oil. 1 tablespoon vinegar. 1 tablespoon sugar. Salt to taste. Walnut halves.

Cheese Souffle

Description

Cheese soufflé is a delicious appetizer for the holiday table. Bake soufflé in a different small molds and your guests will be astonished by the beauty, piquant taste and tempting aroma.

Method

Melt cheese in a small pan, add yolks, milk, flour and pepper. Whip egg whites until there is foam and stir in cheese mass.

Pour in well greased baking molds and put in an oven on low heat for 5 minutes. Then make the heat higher.

Ingredients 4 ea yolks. 2 ea egg whites. 1 c milk. 2 tb flour. 40 g butter. pepper. 250 g cheese.

Chicken or Veal in Aspic “Holodets”

Description

Chicken or Veal in Aspic “Holodets” is a perfect appetizer for the holiday and the best snack with vodka. Holodets can be also called Studen, there is no difference between these two dishes. Holodets is served with horseradish sauce.

Method

Serves 8-12 as an appetizer or 6 as an entree

Rinse the calf or pork feet, put in a 4-quart pot, and add 2 quarts of water. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, cover, and simmer for 4 hours. The stock should have reduced by half, and gristle should fall away from the bones.

Add the beef, onion, carrot, parsley and celery root, and ? teaspoon salt to the pot, bring to the boil, lower the heat, and simmer, partially covered, for 40 minutes. Add the chicken breasts, peppercorns, allspice, and bay leaves, and continue to simmer until the beef and chicken are tender, about 20 minutes. Cool, then refrigerate for 3-4 hours.

Remove all the fat from the top of the aspic. Melt the aspic over low heat. Remove the calf’s feet, beef, and chicken, add the garlic and salt to taste to the broth. Skin and bone the chicken. Remove the meat from the calf’s feet, discarding the bone and the gristle. Cut all the meat into 1-inch pieces and place in a 2- to 21/2-quart serving dish or in individual 1- to 1 1/2 cup dishes. Strain the broth over the meat, discarding the vegetables and spices. Top with slices of hard-boiled egg and refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.

Cut the meat into as many slices as you will need and serve from the dish, accompanied by horseradish.

Ingredients 2 chicken breasts (about 1 pound), or 1 pound boneless veal. 2 pounds calf or pork feet. 1 pound beef round. 1 onion. 1 carrot. 1 parsley root. 2 ounces celery root. 1/2 teaspoon salt plus additional salt to taste. 10 black peppercorns. 5 allspice berries. 2 bay leaves. 3-4 cloves garlic, crushed or finely chopped. 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced Horseradish or Mustard.

Chopped Egg Pate

Description

Easy to make, delicious and festive! No wonder this recipe is so popular!

Serves 6

Method

Chop the hard-boiled eggs finely, to a grainy pate. Add the scallions, dill, butter, mayonnaise and salt to taste. Mix carefully with a fork and chill.

Mound the pate in a serving bowl and decorate it with cucumber slices and olives interspersed with parsley sprigs. Serve at room temperature.

Ingredients 6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled. 6 finely chopped scallions. 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh dill. 1 tablespoon melted unsalted butter. 2 tablespoons mayonnaise. Salt to taste. Cucumber slices. Black olives. Parsley.

Corn Salad

Description

Corn salad has become very popular for last years. It is very easy to make, will bring pleasure to you and your kids as well.

Method

Chop boiled eggs and crab sticks . Add corn and salt. Stir mayonnaise into the salad.

Mix the salad and refrigerate for a while.

Ingredients 250 g canned sweet corn. 250 g crab sticks. 5 ea hard boiled eggs. 200 g mayonnaise. salt.

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