Dear everyone, we need you help!

Our Russian Orthodox Church site "Orthodoxy and the World" contains plenty of information about Orthodox Christianity and we try to do our best to give people a chance to know more about it. Since very few good things are translated into English, and those that are are under strict copyright, we're doing that ourselves.

We need proofreaders, there isn't a single native speaker in our team and we're afraid that non-native accent in our texts can hamper general understanding so that people wouldn't like to read the texts up. Impeccable language can have the opposite effect :)

Please, help us.

We're all volunteers and have no financial support, thus there probably won't be more than 1 text in a couple of weeks.

If anybody could possibly help with the translation - would be absolutely fantastic!!

Hello,

I'm here begging for help (again).

I have some zucchini that I need to use, and I would love to bread and fry it but I have no idea how to do this.  Everything I am finding online is mentioning a deep fryer and I don't have one. 

So please enlighten me as to how I might go about pan-frying up some zucchini.  I have numerous different types of oils here. 

Thanks so much!!

Current Mood: okay

Of course she's with him,
He's far more handsome than I am.
It doesn't matter if he's a jerk,
He's still more handsome in the end.

Chivalry has become a joke,
Think it will up your chances of getting a date?
It's an archaic system that tricks men into thinking women still appreciate it.

Girls will argue and say that they still want to be treated chivalrously,
Argue all you want girls,
Nice guys know it's true.

Comment about it if you want,
I know you're the exception,
every girl thinks she is,
Guys still know it's true, girls just don't understand.

I speak from experience,
I've come to find that I've grown bitter in just 25 short years.
Which is long enough to know things probably won't get any better
They might,
But hope has never been my friend.

In case you haven't been following,
732 consecutive days without any female contact.
I've forgotten what it felt like,
731 days ago.

For the thousandth time,
I'm not looking in the wrong place for a girl,
Simplistically saying,
I'm just not a good catch,
Just not wanted.

Not handsome enough,
Not smart enough,
Not financially endowed,
Not a condescending asshole,
All the desires modern day women epitomize.

I am generalizing,
Maybe stereotyping,
Generalizations come from somewhere,
Stereotypes come from somewhere.
Again girls,
I know you're the exception.
Every girl thinks she is.

You want it in the beginning,
throw it away,
then cry wondering where it went.
If you really want a nice guy and want to be treated chivalrously,
then fucking prove it.

I apologize to the trivial percentage of women with there head on straight,
I apologize to the smaller percentage of men with there head on straight,
Life is harder for you.
The smart ones know who they are,
They can sympathize and empathize.

I'm bitter,
Because women made me this way.
I'm not the only one.

Everyone is always better than me,
No matter what it is.
Why can't I be good at something,
anything I can be proud of.

I need to learn not to run with confidence I get anymore,
I just fall farther and harder,
Every time.

Everything I attempted to do,
I just end up failing,
Every time.

The thing I fear most,
Is the life I'm dying,
the death I'm living.

I got a Firefox addon called FoxyTunes which, among other things, can insert the song I'm listening to in posts... not in the "Now Playing" area, but in the post itself.

Here's an example:

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Now playing: Metallica - Phantom Lord
http://foxytunes.com/artist/metallica/track/phantom+lord


Would that be annoying at the bottom of every post? I'm just asking because it'll do it automatically and save me having to type it in.

Why yes, I think I may be a little lazy. Why do you ask?

Good macaroni salad recipe?? 

I have been praying lately for guidance to know what God's will is in a crossroads that I have come to, but I don't really feel any help from the Spirit on this one. I realize that maybe I'm not that great at listening to the Spirit. I know that some people feel that the Spirit is always guiding them, even for really small and routine decisions, but sometimes I don't even know how to listen to God for big decisions (though sometimes God makes sure I listen to Him, particularly when I'd rather just be left alone to do my own thing--funny how that works). I know that this is a ridiculously broad question, but how can I tune in to the will of the Spirit when the Lord seems to be particularly quiet? I don't think it's unusual for God to really convict us in certain things more than others, but this is something that I think that I should feel convicted about and I don't. So what I want to know is, how do you "listen" to the Spirit when it doesn't come easily?

no food.
i will not eat.
k?k.



its not that hard, i've done it before.
food is disqusting anyway.
like, ew.
i feel better on an empty stomach.

Today's ingredient is broad beans.

If you had some that needed to be used, what would you do?

Extra points for using as few other ingredients as possible, since I'm trying to clear my fridge.

AKA "Kinda like pierogi, but not."

Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs. potatoes
1/4 large onion, minced
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp. curry powder
2 tbsp. butter, plus more for frying the potstickers
60 wonton wrappers
2 cups chicken or vegetable broth

Peel and quarter the potatoes, then boil for about 20 minutes, until they fall apart when you poke them with a fork. Drain.

Rinse and dry the potato pot, then melt 2 tbsp. butter and sautee the onions in it until brown. Remove from heat and add potatoes and coconut milk and mash until smooth. Stir in cheese and curry powder.

Place about 1 tbsp. potato mixture in the middle of a wonton wrapper, then brush the edges with water and top with another wonton wrapper. Repeat 30 times.

Cook the potstickers in fairly small batches in a nonstick pan. Melt a little butter, then add the potstickers and cook about 3 minutes until the bottoms are slightly brown. Add 1/3 cup broth for every 5 potstickers, then cover and cook for 5 minutes, until the broth is absorbed.

Serve with plain yogurt.

More photos and rambling commentary at my cooking blog.

 Closest friend(s)? Nope. Not a lesbian(Sarah sure wishes I was, but that's not the point). Friend? Yes. Nothing ever happened, and I don't speak to him anymore. Turns out he was gay, anyway.

Tags: crush, friends, secrets, writer's block
Current Mood: blah