Tuesday, May 24, 2011

My favourite dish

I love cooking dishes, mixing different flavors and making news. I love soft, unique flavors in any dish with a spicy or strong sausage. One of my favorite dishes is sushi rolls, I love to prepare that dish, it’s delicious and you can experiment with many ingredients, much as I like.
Sushi rolls, also called Maki, are a variant of a traditional way of keeping fish fresh in long travels, occupied in various countries of Eastern Asia, It consist in rolling fresh fishes in a sea weed and rice roll with some rice vinegar mixed with sugar. Those are the basic ingredients, latter adding various vegetables, such as sliced carrots, fresh cheese, kanikamas (which consist in a soft roll that resembles the flavor of a crab’s meat), sesame seeds, sliced aguacates, etc.
Finally I’m going to talk of the recipe. You will need rice, rice vinegar, nori sea weed, sugar, fish or seafood or shellfish, and any vegetable you want to use! Or even other things like fresh cheese. You will start making the rice; it is most likely to use a pot and not a rice machine, and the rice you are going to use is wide and short, but any kind will work the important thing is the cooking. Begins boiling water with full fire, when it’s boiling you will add the vinegar and the sugar mix, then quickly turn off the fire, stir the rice and then cover the pot and let cool.
While rice is cooling pick your vegetables, kanikamas, fresh cheese, whatsoever you have for adding and just slice and dice all the things as you want. Then extend a bamboo mat, place the dried nori sea weed on it, and then pick your rice pot and start adding the sticky rice slowly, to cover part of the sea weed, then place on it your fish, seafood or shellfish, vegetables, etc. Grab the bamboo mat and roll al the thing to get a long roll (Tip: do not place very much foods on a roll. It will be too fat and will disrupt, don’t worry if rice goes out of the roll simply grab it and use it for another roll, and!! VERY important pack it, press the roll firmly, don worry it will not disrupt, but don’t use brute force too.)
Then you grab that rolls, and dice them in various pieces of 2 centimeters or slightly more width, and you eat them, pair it with strong soy sauce, wasabi and ginger, and any drink.
For dessert I almost all the time, take a iced tea with 3 or 4 teaspoons of sugar.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The photograph y most like


This is the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag


It was taken in May the 2nd in 1945 by the Ukrainian Photographer Yevgeni Khaldey. It is a very important picture because it represents the end of the World War II and the defeat of Fascism. It's a historical moment leaves a deep mark in the humanity. For me it symbolizes the final victory of reason, over barbarism. It shows Berlin devastated by the bombs, smoke rising but over the destruction there are cheers of victory and a flag of hope. It also represents the dramatic events during World War II and how terrible war is.

The photograph has been edited many times, to enhance details and other things. But it steel being basically the same.

As Berlin fell in the closing days of the War, Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei gathered some soldiers and posed a shot of them hoisting the flag (called the Victory Banner) on the roof of the Reichstag's building. The photo represented a historic moment, the defeat of Germany in a war that cost the Soviet Union tens of millions of lives. The photo was published May 13, 1945 in Ogonyok magazine. Out of the 36 Images that Khaldei took and of all the other photographers who took pictures of the flag on the roof it was Khaldey's images that became iconic. On April 30th there was great pressure from the Soviet leadership to take the building seen as the, "den of the fascist beast" before May day celebrations. Soviet soldiers were able to use mortar rounds, fired horizontally, to punch through one of the bricked up doorways. Splitting up into small teams to hide their purpose the Soviets slowly gained more and more control of the Reichstag interior. Even with the hold-out defenders a small Soviet five man strike team was able to find a stairway and make their way to the top.