Tonight, after looking at our evenings for the next few days, I had to pivot a bit, so our Olympic country ended up being Belarus, which was originally scheduled to be tomorrow. Ah well.

These were very tasty (K said it tasted just like breakfast), but it drove home the point that I am just not good at frying things in oil. I ended up burning my finger with oil splatter, and many of the draniki didn't hold together very well. I later realized this was potentially because I forgot to add in the corn starch to the recipe... whoops. However, I amazingly did NOT set off the smoke detectors today! Hooray! Here's what the mix looked like prior to frying, just so you can see to compare, if you make this.