As some of you know, as well as being a cartoonist (MAD Magazine, Bruno, Dee, Water Street, etc), I also am a decent baker. Three friends and I run the cooking site cookrookery.com. Their skills at both cooking and writing are superb, so I recommend digging in the archives.
Today on cookrookery I blogged about Russian Tea Cookies, and how I came to choose them for Spacetrawler.
That’s…
How did they even…
No, I don’t want to know.
and this is how I start my morning….
he’s like captain kirk as envisioned by stanislaw Lem
btw congrats on getting mentioned in i09 😀
@mcgee, i had the same reaction.
and thank you, chris, for writing that.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again- I love Dimitri. I’m so happy he got his alien booty.
HHAHAHAHA
Dimitri rocks! Space Trawler rocks!
Actually, a classmate of my brother was called Dimitri, but his ancestry was Greek. Anyway, as both my brother and his wife now tell me: at least half of the girls fancied him…;-)
His babushka’s recipe for tea cookies he may give up for a fling, but he’d better not give away her recipe for borshch! (And I’m not talking about that purple ink you buy in the store!)
Don’t know if you’re a ‘Family Guy’ watcher, Chris, but panel 9 is pure Quagmire.
JKC, in 2008 I celebrated Hanukkah with two good friends who both cooked their family’s borscht recipes. It was a lovely party.
I actually asked one of them, Anya, if she had a family tea cookie recipe. She laughed at me. I adore my friends. 🙂
Dan: youtube just filled me in. I am disturbed and grinning, and disturbed by my grinning.
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You know, I’ve had Russian Tea Cookies made by a few different people, and loved them, but never thought to look up a recipe and make them myself. I will try your recipe in the near future, Chris – thanks for posting it!
I will make a double or triple batch, though, as 12 cookies would disappear almost immediately. 🙂
Also, I can tell that I’m getting to know the characters – I could tell right away in panels 8 and 9 what Dimitri was up to…
Shudder. I think I’m getting to know Dimitri too well. By panel 7, I already knew the ending…
That is so freaking wrong on so many freaking levels.
The cookies look good, though.
@Christopher, just so you can maintain accuracy: The Jewish/Ukrainian/Eastern European way of spelling the dish in English is “borscht”. The RUSSIAN way (and the proper way, if you’re going to do a proper transliteration) is “borshch” — no “t” at the end. (Trust me. My wife was always correcting me on this.)
For those who haven’t had the pleasure, borshch is a vegetable soup made with whatever you’ve got around. She grew up in the Caucuses, so her borshch was always green, with lots of cabbages and green veggies in with the pork. In Ukraine the farmers would grow a lot of beets, so their borscht is (usually) purple. Maybe the regional variations is something you can explore in cookrookery.
The “shch” at the end of the word, BTW, is the Cyrillic letter that looks like a square “W” with a little tail at the end, and has the same sound as the middle of the phrase “fresh cheeks”.
“Girls, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Dmitri won’t be pestering you for a while.”
“Why not?”
“That’s the bad news.”
Rags, your comment made me LOL! …at work, which is not so good…
Cool! Soon we all get to have sex with aliens. Can’t wait!
Frank: My work here is done.
I really feel bad to not have discovered your webcomic before.
Thanks, @D.D. 🙂
Actually, the name Dmitri means “dedicated to Demetra”, the ancient Greek goddess of fertility. Go figure.
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