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…
Have you ever read Joanne Harris’ book, the “Blackberry wine”? In this wonderful book six bottles of fruit wines from the year 1975 – elderberry, damson, blackberry, raspberry, rose hip and jackapple- seem to come to life when Jay, the main character finds them in the cellar. They laugh, whisper, fizzle and make noise while…
Néger kocka, cocoa square is one of the real classics from our childhood in Hungary. It is an easy-to-prepare cocoa cake base with a sweet and creamy meringue and a sticky cocoa glaze on top. It is not the cake you can eat without thinking the high calorie intake, but when I am looking out of…
We have four apple trees in our orchard, two golden delicious and two which are so called “winter scone”, an old Hungarian variety which has a little bit flat shape and a sour taste. I get a lot of information on our fruit trees and orchard in general from our neighbor, Tibor who knows a…