Lithuanian Food Traditions

Lithuanians like to eat good, tasty and filling foods. The tradition of eating well is inherited from our ancestors, who would say, he who eats well, works well.
Lithuanian cooks prepare simple but tasty foods. A good cook can create delicious meals using simple ingredients. It is said that each cook stirs the cookpot in her [...]

Russian Food

Main Courses:
Omelets – usually eaten in the morning
Sausages – usually served two sausages with ketchup
Pelmeni – favourite Russian dish
Pelmeni. (Photo from Kuking.Net)
Chops (kotlety) – made of various kind of meat in various regions
Pelmeny – (on the photo) the small balls of minced meat covered with the pastry
Vareniky – it looks like pelmeny however inside the [...]

Traditional New Year Foods : Dim Sum from China

Probably more food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year. Vast amounts of traditional food is prepared for family and friends, as well as those close to us who have died.
On New Year’s Day, the Chinese family will eat a vegetarian dish called jai. Although the various ingredients [...]

Skin care: Top 5 habits for healthy skin

Proactive skin care, from skin protection to proper shaving technique, will help you keep your skin youthful and healthy.
Your busy lifestyle leaves little time for pampering skin care. The result: Your skin isn’t the baby-soft body glove with which you were born. With age, your skin gradually becomes thinner and finely wrinkled. Oil-producing (sebaceous) glands [...]

Networking Basics: Part 1 – Networking Hardware

The first piece of hardware that I want to discuss is a network adapter. There are many different names for network adapters, including network cards, Network Interface Cards, NICs. These are all generic terms for the same piece of hardware. A network card’s job is to physically attach a computer to a network, so that [...]