A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 16 June 2020 - T for lots of food and an eagle

Hello lovely ladies,

How are you all? Doesn't time fly! The week has gone by so fast and again we have arrived at Tuesday. And Tuesday means: T-Party! Let's join Elizabeth and Bluebeard with a nice beverage. 

I have got a beverage plus a lot of food.

Starting with my first postcard there is food. This card comes from India and was sent to me by Han-Su. The meal is called Daal-baati-churma. On the back of the card is some info on this dish: Baati is a hard unleavened bread cooked in the desert area of Rajastan, in Ultar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. It is prized for its long shelf life and high nutritional content. It is traditionally prepared by coarsely mashing baati and pouring ghee on top of it. It is served with dahl (lentils) and spicey garlic chutney, or with besan (gram flour). It is commonly served at all festivities, including religious occasions, wedding ceremonies, and birthday parties in Rajastan.

Churma is basically a sweet side dish, eaten with daal-baati and is made sweet by adding sugar or jaggery to it. To make it tastier and healthier, ghee is added to it. Additional ingredients could be dried fruits and nuts like cashews, pistachio, almonds and raisins.

 It sounds very nice. (I do love Indian food). 
The stamps are spectacular. Again on the theme of food. The stamp on the left shows Pongal. Pongal or Huggi is a popular South Indian rice dish. In Tamil "pongal" means "bubbling up". In Telugu and Kannada Pongali is a dish of rice mixed with boiled milk and sugar.

 The food on the right is Malpua: Malpua is a pancake served as a dessert or a snack originating from the Indian subcontinent, popular in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Here is an image I found on the Internet:

My second card comes from Russia. Sent to me by Anya. She lives in Izhevsk (population 700,000), the capital of the Udmurt Republic, which is located to the west of the Ural mountains.

The information on the card was in Russian, which I don't understand. (But I do have Google Translate app on my phone which reads Russian. I have to use the phone's camera and it will read it. Very clever!). The info reads: V.A.Vatagin, Kamchatka eagle, oil on plywood.

These are the stamps. You can tell by the date stamp that this card has been a long time traveling. With the Corona restrictions, very little mail has come through. Now that the restrictions are a bit more relaxed, cards start coming in.

Enough about cards. Back to the food! For the first time in months, we have been out for a meal with our best friends. On the photo you see what we call the Paseo, and on the left you see a small restaurant/bar with lots of seating outside. That's where we went as it is just two blocks away from our house.

 We went on Friday evening, and that happened to be a blustery cold evening. Luckily we found seating inside. Of course they were only allowed very few tables inside, so we were lucky.
The first tapa was baked potatoes with aioli (not visible). My drink (on the right) was Bitter Kas, a sort of Campari soda. 

 They have a traditional pizza oven, so we ordered pizza. Thin and crispy, just like we like it.

I just have to show you this desert: it is their famous tarta de whiskey. The bottom layer is ice cream, the yellow layer tasted like it had egg yolks in it. I don't know which part contains the whiskey, but the owner came round with a bottle of whisky and poured a generous glug over each tarta.

Last but not least, I have been to the hair dresser! Oh joy of joys! I think for most women this would have been the worst part of the lockdown. But hey, she managed to fit me in and I have a super short hairdo.

 This is Isa, my hairdresser sweeping up some locks (obviously not mine).

 Now for my drink: I had to talk to my dentist about something, and hubby had to go into town as well to get a particular tool. So he drove me and dropped me off. 

 I didn't take long, so I stopped at the bar next door for a coffee, while waiting for hubby. As you can see in the above photo the dentist sign that says Clinica Dental Baza. But the coffee is not very clear. So here is my coffee below. I drink what we call café cortado (espresso with a tiny dash of milk).

That is it from me for today.
I wish you all a very happy T-Day,
Blessings,
Lisca