international [cat] lady of mystery: Kyrgyzify your snack time!

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Kyrgyzify your snack time!

One of my favorite things to eat is something I refer to as either "beer cheese" or "chechil" - a smoked, salted cheese popular for consumption with booze in the former Soviet Union (like peanuts in the US). I posted something the other day on facebook about how I really wished I had some chechil, and one of my former students from Kyrgyzstan responded that she was coming to the US, and she would bring some, and mail it once she got here. A week later, I had six packets of chechil; I'm now down to three and a half :-)

There was a period of time in Kyrgyzstan where I ate mostly chechil and twix, and drank mostly tan. Today I treated myself to my favorite Kyrgyz snack:

And in case you're wondering, the cat scratch is healing up nicely:

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I'm an American woman, I'm in my thirties, and I blog under the pseudonym of Annie Nimity. I'm a world traveler, an animal lover, English teacher, and an avid amateur photographer. I've traveled to fifteen countries outside of the US thus far (not nearly enough!), and of those, I've spent extensive time in Russia, South Korea, and Kyrgyzstan. (My Russia-specific blog is here, and my Kyrgyzstan-specific blog is here. My posts about Korea appear on this blog, under the South Korea tag.) My pets are Charlie the cat (she's a girl, despite her name and her amazing 'stache) and Mochi the dog. They have their own Facebook page, located here.