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02:31 UTC
5:38 EEST; The Sun is Rising Over Kyiv on the 795th Day of the Full-Scale Invasion. The taste of Spring: how to make Dandelion Honey!
Dandelion Honey
Alert: we are about to hit peak dandelion season, everyone!
I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so some of my sweetest memories from childhood were when my mother would prepare Dandelion Honey.
As an adult, I now realize that dandelion honey was not just a perfect treat for kids - it's also a perfect scheme for parents who want to make snacks for children but also want to spend as little energy as possible doing so. Just recruit your children to work on collecting and separating the dandelions (which on its own is a fun pastime for a kid). Then relax as the actual preparation of the dish is nearly effortless and super, super simple.
Dandelions at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine, located in Pyrohiv.
Now I'm definitely not claiming that Dandelion Honey is some kind of uniquely Ukrainian dish; however, it's an extremely popular and widespread activity in Ukraine to make little treats like honey, tea and salads from dandelions at peak season. Maybe it's just because Ukraine has a lot of fields. Or maybe it's because we have lazy parents ;)
From what I can tell, it's not as popular in the U.S. so I thought you might find this interesting!
A couple things to note before the recipe:
- This isn't really honey. It's more like a really thick syrup with a very complex flavor similar to honey since it has some notes of pollen and flowers.
- Don't use dandelions that grow by the roadside! They can be really coated in bad stuff. You really want to go to a field out in a natural setting (which is its own reward).
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Etymology Break!
Actually, there's one more note. Dandelion in English/French has such a fun etymology (dent-de-lion: 'tooth of the lion') that I thought I would let you know about the word in Ukrainian, which is Kulbaba.
Counterintuitively, 'Kulbaba' doesn't mean 'cool grandmother', though it's true that grandmothers are cool.
Instead, Kulbaba means something like 'rounded flower' and is thought to be related to how the stem splits when you pick it.
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How to Make Dandelion Honey, by Chef Klopotenko
Chef's Notes: You can decide to add other citrus to the flowers to get a subtle flavor. You can also substitute the orange below for lemon to give the dandelion syrup a sour taste, or use both. You can add spices, to your taste: cinnamon, vanilla sugar, or even a little hot pepper.
Ingredients
- 300g Dandelion Flowers
- 500ml Water
- 1 Orange
- 300g Sugar
Recipe
- Remove the dandelion flowers from the stems, wash them thoroughly and place them in a saucepan. Pour in 500ml of water.
- Cut 1 orange into slices, add it to the pan and cook the mixture together for 20 minutes.
- Strain the mixture through a sieve into another saucepan, then add 300g of sugar and cook over medium heat until it becomes thick, 30-40 minutes.
- Pour the dandelion honey into a clean jar, screw it closed; you can store it in the refrigerator for a couple of months.
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The 795th day of a ten-year invasion that has been going on for centuries.
One day closer to victory.
🇺🇦 HEROYAM SLAVA! 🇺🇦
02:30 UTC
Satellite images show the results of an attack on a Russian oil depot in the Smolensk region on April 24th
18:03 UTC
12 “good birds” have already been purchased and handed over to the right hands🫡 Thank you for your support 🇺🇦
17:31 UTC
Visually confirmed losses of Rusaian and Ukrainian military equipment on 26.04.2024
17:23 UTC
During the night, Russian troops launched an attack on the Saltivka district of Kharkiv, specifically targeting the premises of a psychiatric hospital
16:59 UTC
At night, the enemy fired S-300 missiles at the Kharkiv psychiatric hospital: at the time of the attack, there were about 900 patients and 250+ medical staff there," said Mayor. Fortunately, the missiles hit the ground and not the buildings of the medical facility - 0 deaths this time 🙏
14:37 UTC
I am American, looking for a Ukrainian learning English, I am learning Ukrainian.
Hi! I’m just learning Ukrainian using Duolingo but it isn’t that good because all the practice words and questions sounds like robots are saying them. Please let me know if you would want me to help you learn English while you help me learn Ukrainian. Thanks!
14:32 UTC
Soldier playing chello, searching for a video
Hello
In 2014-2015 there was this video where a soldier dressed in ukrainian uniform and with balaclava on his head is playing chello somewhere outdoors, the song was the ukrainian anthem
Ayone knows about it and maybe have a link to it?
14:32 UTC
Australia to provide $100 million in funding and supplies to Ukraine
14:01 UTC
Ukraine Aid Operations - The team provided 50 life-saving helmets to the State Security Service of Ukraine!
13:13 UTC
An interview with The Cardinal Birds on making music in wartime. They are a Ukrainian Punkband that joined NAFO and raised money for the Ukrainian military
We had a sit down with The Cardinal Birds, this Ukrainian band got its political instincts activated in 2014. They've been making music with a message and also launched the official NAFO Hymn. Moreover they even raised a millions hryvnia for the Ukrainian Military!
1. You guys started your band in 2014 at a time when Ukraine went through hard times. Has the ongoing war coloured your repetoire in music, and if so how does it reflect in your songs?
Vlad: Remembering 2014, these were really difficult times for our country. In fact, many people think that the war began in 2022, but the struggle for independence began long before that, back in 2003, russia aggressively tried to seize the island of Tuzla, they never appreciated our statehood and wanted to appropriate our territories and culture for themselves. In terms of music, we were influenced by the Western world, at that time we were all listening to the bands Blink-182, Green Day, Sum 41 and it was these bands that inspired us to play music, that was the basis for us. Then our first songs were like those bands, we always wanted to play punk. Only now, to draw attention to the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War, we recorded such tracks as "Uke Line", "NAFO Hymn" and "Ukraine Matters" (https://youtu.be/s2aQxTtvvF8?si=F9ENYD33Ulew1CUY)
2. Your gained quite some populairity in the NAFO community launching the NAFO Hymn, what inspired you to make it?
Dee: We were inspired by #FELLAS! We have never received this kind of support in our lives as we received and are receiving from them! Every day we met new FELLAS and many helped us in recording new songs, namely they bought our music on Bandcamp or bought our merch, sent various types of musical equipment, etc. (Gifts: https://youtu.be/p57jtIFN70Y?si=AgPlUuPGPPIHsl4D) I was surprised by this power and simply could not stand by! I suggested that the Cardinals write an anthem for NAFO and they agreed! We started working on demos and each participant wrote an instrumental composition, but we chose the music that our drummer Max wrote! His instrumental suited our mood best and apparently his musical education helps him out perfectly! Well, the music was ready and I started tweeting that I was getting ready to write lyrics for the song! I wanted us all to write the text together, so I wrote the beginning of the phrases, and FELLAS finished them! And so it turned out that we wrote this entire text together with FELLAS! The same thing happened with the cover for the song! I wanted to create a caricature of the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and asked FELLAS to send me his characters. In a couple of days we received more than 200 avatars from different parts of the world and I started working! I spent about a week processing all the images in Photoshop and then created this collage! In the end, there were about 150 characters on the cover! And yes, at the end of the song you can also hear the voices of real FELLAS! They sent us their greetings by email and we added them at the end of the song!
3. The video of Nafo hymn shows some fella's you also make fella's yourself, what it's like to make fella's for other people and for which countries did you forge fella's ?
Dee: There are a lot of countries from which they sent us characters! Most of all we received avatars from the USA, Britain, Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden! And what surprised me most was that most of our support team are located in Australia (Vlog. Aussie #FELLA in Kyiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGxIHZ8c6TU&t=3s)!!)!! Can you imagine this??? IN AUSTRALIA!!! This is a pleasant shock for us!
4 . what's it like to perform as a band in Ukraine right now. Is it possible even in Kyiv or elsehwere in Ukraine, if so what's the atmosphere like?
Vlad: Thanks to our armed forces and anti-aircraft defense, it is possible and people do it, but of course if an air raid signal sounds, people hide in shelters. Almost every event now, whether it's a concert or a stand-up performance, is aimed at raising funds to increase the strength of Ukraine and inspire people to think positively.
5. What's the nicest feedback you recieved on the NAFO Hymn?
Max: Many good words were said to us, from many people from different countries of the world. I think the best feedback is when after one of the fellas wrote to us that he really liked the NAFO Hymn and would like us to write something similar for his YouTube channel "Ukraine Matters" https://youtu.be/99n9f8B4kIk?si=1JjpY1mMllVzuuBz
and it happened, we wrote a new song and with the help of this song we collected a million hryvnias for our army. If the NAFO Hymn had not been written, perhaps this story would not have happened. We are very happy to have done this and grateful to NAFO FELLAS for such incredible support during these two years.
6. How does making music in Ukraine happen these days, do you still practice a lot?
Vlad: In fact, we do not practice as much as we would like, for obvious reasons, it is commonplace when the air traffic alarm sounds, then the transport stops, and the alarms can last for 3-4 hours, and the band members live on different banks of Kyiv. So it remains only to practice at home, this is the only option for now, and we regularly have rehearsals that we go to (if there are no air alarms) In general, the Ukrainian music industry is developing rapidly, the event has started to hear our performers and it's cool, we are sure that we have great potential and we will be able to realize it!
7. How did you join NAFO?
Max: We've been tweeting with a lot of people, following them and asking them to listen to our music. And one day we noticed that people with avatars of Shiba Inu dogs are very cool interlocutors, after searching on Google what these avatars mean, we realized that these people support Ukraine. Later, one of the subscribers made us an avatar of the dog in the form of a shiba inu dog, that's how we joined NAFO, this happened even before we released NAFO Hymn.
8. How do you reflect on the international support the NAFO movement has recieved? And Ukraine in general?
Max: NAFO is gaining momentum and new fellas every day. This is a powerful support for Ukraine, we are glad that the people who are part of NAFO support us so passionately, they are doing a lot of work in order to resist the rusian bastards. We are grateful to the countries that provide us with weapons, in order to end the war with our victory, we need even more weapons, we can win, but only with a sufficient number of heavy weapons.
9. Musicwise how would you describe your style?
Max: We play punk rock, it's music in which you can say whatever you want, all your feelings and thoughts, it's completely open music for something new, our music is freedom of action in everything.
10 What are the biggest challanges you face now as an artist?
Dee: The biggest problem - oh, so many... Unfortunately, music does not bring us income and we have to work 2 jobs to support ourselves. The economic situation in Ukraine is not the best right now, so we need to work a lot, and the more we work, the less time we have for creativity and rehearsals... It’s also very difficult to find inspiration for songs now. There is a war in Ukraine and thoughts are only about war. Every day we think about war. Death, death, death. It's horrible. Because of the coronavirus and now because of the war, we almost never perform live, this also upsets us very much, because we are a rock and roll band. In short, it’s good that we are 3 guys band and from time to time we support each other or simply give each other “magic kicks”! We believe that one day we will be at the Rock Am Ring and Reading Festival!
THANK YOU to all Ukrainian Men and Women who defend our freedom and independence! YOU ARE OUR HEROES FOREVER!
Special thanks to all #FELLAS and our friends from around the world, for your help, your donations and standing with Ukraine. YOU ARE THE BEST!
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Favorite bands: Dee Lav (bass/vox): The Beatles, Motley Crue, Paramore
Vlad Stebel (guitar/backing vocals): Electric Callboy, Idles, Green Day
Cech (drums/vox): Bring Me the Horizon, Electric Callboy, Sum 41
#SLAVAUKRAINI
Yours, Cardinal Birds 📷
Spotify/AppleMusic/YouTube Music etc.: https://push.fm/ps/cb-um
📷Music Video: https://youtu.be/XqABqmCHN4w?si=t3WiU7mmZ8f7re9N
📷 Support our music: http://buymeacoffee.com/cardinalbirds
Drums & Vocals: Cech https://www.instagram.com/cech.cb/
Bass & Vocals: Dee Lav https://www.instagram.com/deelav.cb/ Guitars & Backing Vocals: Stebel https://www.instagram.com/stebel.cb/
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