Thai lunch for my namesday
We celebrate our namesday in Hungary. Mine is on March 3rd and I celebrated with a thai family dinner.
Christmas in Hungary is a joyous and deeply cultural holiday, full of ancient folk traditions, delicious foods, and meaningful celebrations with family and friends. Many Hungarian Christmas customs reveal the strong Christian background as well as remnants of old pagan winter solstice rituals.
The Christmas season traditionally begins on December 5th with Mikulás Eve, when children polish their shoes and place them on the window sill hoping St. Nicholas will come and fill them with candy, small toys, and fruit. Some naughty children may find a golden…
The New York Cafe stands as one of the most iconic and historically significant cafes in Budapest. Located on the grand Erzsébet Boulevard, this cafe exudes an elegant sophistication mixed with the bustling energy of a literary coffeehouse. It has an illustrious history spanning over a century, making it a cultural institution of both Hungary and the cafe society of Europe.
The New York Cafe first opened its doors in 1894 during Budapest’s golden fin-de-siècle era. Designed…
You ask why you trust my opinion, since as a Hungarian I am certainly biased about the capital of my country. I have to say that I have been to many places in the world, I have seen amazing places.
I see Budapest’s special appeal in the many cultural influences that have affected the city throughout its long history.
On a short walk through the city, you can come across ancient Roman ruins and street art, Art Nouveau buildings, Europe’s largest synagogue…
The Central Market Hall in Budapest is a popular destination for locals and tourists alike, and it’s not hard to see why! During the late summer months, the market is full of fresh, delicious produce that is sure to tantalize your taste buds.
Peaches, blackberries, mushrooms, pumpkin varieties.. And of course a late summer product that you can’t miss is the delicious Hungarian paprika. In hungarian we have the same word…
Now as promised in my last blog, I’m sharing with you how I cook my goulash.
Please feel free to try it and let me know how it turned out.
Here we go:
Chop 3-4 medium sized onions, two yellow Hungarian paprikas (= bell peppers, you know we call everything paprika in Hungary 🇭🇺 , bell peppers, capsicums, kapia, chilis etc. :-).
If you don’t get the yellow Hungarian ones, take any yellow bell peppers instead), and a clove of garlic.
Take a deep pot, put oil in it, so the bottom is covered. Use sunflower oil or canola oil or even lard. Do not…
When you say goulash, you mean the stew, when we say goulash, we mean the soup.
The stew is called “pörkölt” in Hungarian and we eat it mostly with “nokedli”, i.e. spaetzle or noodles, some call it small dumplings or just hand made pasta in different shapes and sizes. We also eat pickled vegetables or a good cucumber salad with sour cream with it.
Goulash soup and also the pörkölt is the most popular traditional Hungarian food, you have to taste while in Budapest.
We generally love soups and I e.g. grew up having three-course meals for lunch: a soup, a main dish and either a dessert or fruit. Of course the portions…
Budapest launches a great number of gastronomic festivals yearly. One of them is the mangalica festival, which just took place this year in February.
In case you’ve never heard about the mangalica, let me introduce this special looking Hungarian swine to you. It is mostly blonde but has always long curly hair. At first glance you might think it’s a sheep, but it’s not. It’s a cold breed which is resistent against cold and illnesses, is not forced into cages, can run around outside and have a life before landing on our plates with its deliciously full flavored and low cholesterol meat. It has an over 200 years old history and it’s becoming more and more…
A “csárda”, pronounced {tchaarda} ?, is a tipical and traditional Hungarian inn/restaurant mainly in the countryside with traditional Hungarian food and tipical decoration, like a lot of garlic, paprika (pepperoni, hot pepper), Hungarian pottery on the walls, roof and table.
Yesterday I visited the Paprika Csárda, in Hegyeshalom, at the Hungarian Austrian boarder and was happy and satisfied with the menu and my chosen dish: csülök csuszával ?? – smoked porkleg with Hungarian pasta ( these are big pieces of pasta, like lasagne “sheets) in mushroom paprikás ( a sauce with sautéed mushrooms and onion, with red mild paprika powder and sourcream)
It was delicious!!! In a wonderful surroundings.
If you’d like to get the recipe, drop me a note ?
A lot of households in Finland have their own smoker, so they fish themselves or buy the fish from a friend or neighbor and than put in in the smoker for about one hour, after it soaked in salt water for about twelve hours. My hosts served the salmon with cooked new potatoes and carrots, lettice and a dill-yoghurt dip. It was a tasty and wonderful light meal.
This was followed by a blueberry pie. Delicious with vanilla ice cream!!!!
July 26, 2016
Finnland, Traditional food, Travel
