Rasma Raisters
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My passions are writing and creating poetry. I write for several sites online and have four themed blogs on Wordpress. Please follow me on Twitter.
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Cheese Please
Europe Finland Leipajuusto is called Finnish squeaky cheese in the US because it seems to squeak when you bite into it. The cheese is made from the first milk drawn from a cow after it has given birth. Lipajuusto can be bought in a 2-3 cm thick dish which can be grilled, flambeed or baked. Due to its appearance the name of the cheese means "bread cheese." This cheese is usually served in slices with coffee or eaten with fresh cloudberries or cloudberry jelly or in a salad.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
Dancing Butterflies
Europe Apollo butterflies have beautiful white bodies with eyespots on their wings.The forewings have a number of black eyespots and the hindwings are decorated with four attractive red eyespots. These butterflies can be found in France, Italy, and Spain. Apollo butterflies are among the most threatened species of butterflies in Europe.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Earth
Rock and Roll With a Symphonic Beat
British rock group Electric Light Orchestra or ELO comes from Birmingham, England. Actually, if you just hear their name, they sound like a symphonic orchestra. During their popularity in the years between 1971 and 1986, they came out with 11 studio albums and added on one more in 2001. This band came together as the creation of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, whose dream was to add classical overtones to rock and pop songs. Wood departed the band after they came out with their debut album, but Lynne stayed and wrote and arranged all of their original compositions and also produced all of their albums.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Beat
Delicious Pork Dishes
Europe Norway Medisterkaker is a traditional dish made of pork meatballs. The meatballs are made with ground pork, flour, eggs, salt, nutmeg, ginger, milk, black pepper, and oil The meat is combined with salt and eggs and mixed until sticky then the flour and spices are added. The milk is added a little at a time and the entire mixture shouldn't be too firm, Then shaped into balls and browned on both sides.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
Beware Halloween Is Coming
Halloween Pranks and Candy Apples The traditional colors of Halloween are orange and black and these also come from the pagan celebrations of the autumn and harvest. The orange color symbolizes the color of crops and changing leaves. As for black, it symbolizes the “death” of summer and the changing of the seasons. Other colors have been added to Halloween decorations and they include yellow, purple and green.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Horror
Halloween Candy Through the Years
The one thing that children look forward to the most is getting bagfuls of candy on Halloween. Both children and adults love to get dressed up in all kinds of costumes. My childhood favorite was a witch costume and that being the 1960s the popular costumes for children came packaged with plastic masks. As much as my mother wished I wanted to be a princess or a fairy year after year it was being a witch for me.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Horror
Comforting Bowl Of Soup
Norway Sodd is the national dish of Norway and is prepared with diced mutton, meatballs made with beef, lamb, or mutton, carrots, and potatoes. Usually, the vegetables are cooked separatly and then added to the soup. This soup is mostly served on special and festive occasions and is accompanied by Norwegian flatbread.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
In Remembrance of Mom
Both my parents my mom Elvira and my dad Eriks Raisters had had their lives interrupted by WW II. They escaped from their homeland Latvia, lived in DP or Displaced Person's Camps in Germany, got married there and finally sailed into New York Harbor in 1951 to start an entirely new life. It was a happy time when I came along on 1957 and a very sad time when just ten short years later mom and I lost dad in 1967.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Families
Delicious South American Food
Argentina Provoleta or grilled provoleta cheese is usually enjoyed before a meal or as a side with grilled meats. Provoleta is a semi-hard provolone cheese. For asado or Argentinian barbecue, the cheese is sliced thick, seasoned with oregano and some dried red chilli flakes and grilled till the center starts to melt. Provoleta is best when topped with garlicky chimichurri sauce and crusty bread on the side.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
The Taste of Germany
Meat dishes Hackepeter or mett is a German specialty that is prepared with raw minced pork and eaten just as it is, not cooked. The raw pork is seasoned with salt, crushed caraway, marjoram, nutmeg. garlic, and onions. In Germany raw pork is enjoyed placed on bread rolls or slices of bread with raw onion rings on top.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
Strangest Looking Creatures
Mammals Naked Mole-Rat The naked mole-rat is an animal that has no fur and is nearly blind. These animals live underground in colonies similar to insects. Their nearest relatives are porcupines, chinchillas, and guinea pigs. Not completely bald they have about 100 fine hairs on their bodies acting like whiskers to help them get around. The hairs found between their toes help the naked mole rats to move soil between them while they are digging tunnels. They are among the longest living of all rodents and can live for nearly 30 years and have an amazing resistance to cancer.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Petlife
