I am standing at the kitchen counter pitting plums for a cream soup that I wanted to cook for you this week. Yesterday I have already tested a version, but I was excited about further experimenting. Today I will add some apples that I got from Hédi, a friend…
Főzelék is a special category in Hungarian cuisine which is basically a vegetable stew made from all kind of different vegetables. I couldn’t give them enough importance they deserve on this blog, however I had adventures with nettle stew, I cooked főzelék from green peas that I grew in…
The renovation of our house arrived to the final and most exciting stage. Day by day it becomes cosier and more home-like and suddenly I cannot stop my always-dreaming imagination. I see painted walls instead of the plastered surfaces, tiles instead of concrete, washbasin instead of water pipes and…
When I was a child I loved when my grandmother made filled “Albert” biscuits. Albert biscuits are Hungarian sweet biscuits that you could (and can) get at any corner shop, and I guess each family used to have it on the shelf as a quick sweets for the family…
Women’s whim. Already its name tells a lot, as if its recipe was created by a whimsical lady who had put it together following a sudden mood.
I find its recipe among the first ones that my grandmother’s wrote down into that already yellow-turned notebook that she started to fill…
It is amazing that it has been already 9 months ago when we started the renovation process of our house which also meant a learning process of patience, resilience, hope and faith. If somebody tells me at the beginning that it will take so long, that it will require…
I take a look at the piece of paper with that unmistakably typical handwriting and read the instructions line-by-line which is not really wordy I must say. (dkg and dl are measurements which were widely used at the time of our grandmothers and mothers)
“Potato scones/Burgonyás pogácsa
1 kg pastry flour
1/2…
One and a half year ago I wrote a blog post about semolina pudding, or as we call it in my family: pepi. I underlined how undeservedly neglected is this dessert and tried to verify my statement with visual evidences.
My boyfriend Áron and I are still big fan of…