It is raining, it is cold and windy which gives me the sense that I cannot dress myself warm enough. Streets are empty, once in a while someones passes by in hurry while trying to fight with the umbrella and puddles. Although these are not the days when it is easy to find something that…
Beetroot is a vegetable which has the ability to awake strong emotions in highly positive or negative way. People normally like it or hate it. As for me, you could have driven me out of the world with beetroot until the moment I tasted my grandmother’s beetroot salad. Once I visited her, she was preparing…
This year we don’t have so much plums in our orchard, there was a lot of rain which didn’t help the ripening process. The ones who use pesticides face the same problem this year as the ones who don’t: plums fall from trees moldy and wormy. Anyway, our orchard remains organic. Our plum tree is…
Weeks of constant heat are followed by days with rain showers and sometimes even storms. The lawn which was already burnt out greens again, I don’t need to carry canful of water to water our tomatoes and the air has a completely different scent. After a bigger storm I am bit worried so we go…
Living in the countryside completely transformed my approach to cooking. The question is not any more “What shall I cook today?” or “What do I find today on the market?”. Cooking starts now for me first by going to the garden, looking around and thinking. Although in the first year of our countryside living we…
Do you want to see how the little calf will be born?- asks me Ani, my neighbor at the beginning of the week and I immediately say “yes” then start to hesitate whether I am really brave enough to see it. Finally my countryside living ability won’t be tested this way- the baby calf is…
Soon I am going to celebrate my 35th birthday. This number is a kind of mystic for me, maybe because it seems to be an important milestone in life. I am an optimistic person so I presume I will live 100 years- at least I am sure I have enough plans for further 70 years so…
As we get closer to summer there is more and more work to do in the kitchen and the garden. As usually i try to get done everything right away which ends up in a tragic, exhausted moment when I realize that it is impossible. At least not immediately. First of all I need to…
A real Hungarian classic. It is fast, easy but has its own tricks. Do you want to guess? This post will be about “tojásos nokedli”, Hungarian dumplings with eggs accompanied by cucumber salad with sour cream. When I was a child my mother often cooked it. She always cooked the dumplings first then mixed with eggs…
I have been waiting for a long time for this moment to arrive: our elderflower bushes started to bloom. I was extremely excited, that already a year ago I started to collect bottles in Spain because the organic milk bottles that I bought at the Málaga market hall were absolutely suitable for this purpose. So…
