At the time right before holidays slowing down, letting go the old and welcome the new seem to be a challenge that is impossible to accomplish. In any case I try, even if I receive at least three newsletters every day saying “only… days left until Christmas”, written in a final countdown style. Even if…
“My dear Nusi!” I hope you are not ill any more. Look how nice Klári is, she has written to you. Write me any time you can. Sending you lots of kisses Lili 22.5.1927” This is the message which is written on the back side of the postcard that I found in an antique book…
Only three weeks left until Christmas . I realise that fact when I make a plan for the coming blog posts and all the recipes I would like to share with you. Although I am reading “In praise of slowness” written by Carl Honoré, my own life is far from being the synonym for slow….
We wake up to a foggy, milky morning. Light is a mere shadow of its former self and the complete day passes by in a kind of semidarkness. Everything seems to be grey, even people’s mood. It is so difficult to notice beauty these days, although I am trying really hard. I park my car…
Last week was really eventful and full of excitements. One thing is to blog week after week in my own little world, another thing is to make a presentation about gastronomy and Taste of Memories at the university and yet another is to bake potato brioche on a stage at Bakony Expo, an event celebrating…
“Would you come to Velem with me?”- I ask Áron at the beginning of September. This needs a short explanation for non-Hungarians because this question is a joke with the words. Velem, beside of the fact that it is the name of a village in Western Hungary, means also “with me”, so if you replace…
On Sunday I recieve a message from my sister: “ I have bought a pumpkin. How should I roast it?” While I am sending some instructions to her- who by the way haven’t roasted but crocheted wonderful pumpkins recently!- it makes me remember the time when I ate a looot of pumpkin. I used to…
Finally it has started. After a rainy, stormy weekend in a sunny, but still really windy morning the backyard of our house is filled up with life. The track based bobcat is easily moving around the muddy soil and it digs up so much soil in half a day for the basement of the attachment…
If you ever tried to renovate a house – even in smaller or bigger sense- you know very well that the process is like riding a rollercoaster. Sometimes you just let yourself being in the moment suspecting that it will be one of your most memorable experience in your life, but sometimes you just want…
The last 2,5 months was really busy and eventful, since I wrote the last post on the blog before the summer holiday. At that time we had to face the fact that our old Swabian house urgently needs a full renovation, after we had a burst pipe and the problem seemed to be bigger than…
