What is real food? Where does it come from, what does it contain, how do we cook it, who do we share with? The above illustration (text) gives you all the answers. I agree with every word! And you?
Weekend Crumbs
Lots of weekend crumbs pictures about the long weekend. It started with a wonderful breakfast: brioche bread I baked (recipe coming soon) with strawberry rhubarb compote I made. Yum!
I love gardening in our small parcel in the community garden. It’s wonderful to see your vegetables to grow. Zucchini, coriander, rhubarb, aragula – all look luscious and green thanks for last week rains.
I also traveled home to Szeged to see my family and friends. May is always a nice month to visit Szeged because there are so many programs around the town. As one of the largest and most flourishing cities of Hungary, a lot is expected from Szeged’s Wine Festival each year (every May). Crowded squares and streets to be expected with happy people enjoying wine and food. There are always more than a hundred Hungarian wine-makers you will find, several blues and jazz bands playing around, dance houses where you can enjoy some authentic folk experience, and, not to be fed with noble beverages only, a fantastic gastroyard to eat delicious dishes.
After drinking wines a big garlic lángos is the best to soothe your appetite… Lángos is a Hungarian food speciality, a deep fried flat bread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salt and water. It is eaten fresh and warm, topped with sour cream and grated cheese, rubbed with garlic or garlic butter, or doused with garlic water.
Sunday morning breakfast: remaining brioche with the compote…
Not only the Wine Festival made my home town busy there were also the Bridge Fair. There are stalls of craftsmen from all over the country on the Old Bridge in the middle of Szeged where you can buy lots of traditionally made products from shoes to sweets. During the fair there are puppet shows for children, folk concerts and also other nationalities and countries can introduce their culture.
Before the fair we cherished ourselves with sweet treats: a slice of creamy cake and a cup of foamy cappuccino…
Few montage pictures of the fair…
The famous Hungarian paprika is this beautifully red as on this pic…
Cute dog… 🙂
Cathedral and river Tisza at sunset…
Fresh Salad From Our Garden
Aragula and radish
In February I announced on my Facebook page that I. and I are proud owners of a small parcel in a community garden in the heart of Budapest. We are so happy to have the opportunity to grow our vegetables.
Aragula
A community garden is a single piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. Community gardens provide fresh produces and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment. It is getting more and more popular around the world, especially in big cities.
Rhubarb
I noticed that people are so into nature nowdays and the locally grown (by you) fresh produces can beat the store bought ones. They taste different, don’t they?
Swiss chard
Zucchini
Beans
Happy gardening!
Weekend Crumbs
Best waffel in Budapest (chocolate pudding) at Jégbüfé… When in Budapest, don’t miss it!
There were lots of crumbs this past weekend. I think the pictures will speak instead of me… Summer is here, I love it!
Vegetable ramen and…
…vegetarian steam buns at Momotaro Ramen. Best ramen place in Budapest!
The weather was sunny and warm all weekend…
Vegan raspberry yoghurt with oatmeal (recipe coming soon)…
Still life at the organic market on Saturday moring…
Bagatellini, a new bakery that was launched in February…
Snack in the park…
Sunday breakfast: vegan hazelnut vanilla pancake with rhubarb compote… scrumptious!
Cafe Gerbeaud, the famous patisserie and cafe in Budapest…
Chocolate manufactury at Szamos Gourmet House…
This is a life-size marzipan girl, who is the replica of a woman figure in a well-known picture titled “The girl with chocolate” painted by a Dutch painter from the 18th century. The sculpture of the girl with chocolate was made from 70 kg marzipan, during approximately 800 working hours, and she watches Arthur’s activity from a glass cabinet.
Cooling cider in the hot weather…
Friends from Canada… my goddaughter and her little brother 🙂
Gardening at the community garden…
Enjoy!
Reflection, Nespresso and George… 🙂
Weekend Crumbs
Last weekend was about Easter so I traveled home to Szeged. I was lucky to catch the blooming of magnolia trees at Széchenyi Square. This is a spot that everyone knows in town. It is basically the center of the city. Here you will find the Town Hall, a smaller park where you can walk to, sit down and relax (especially spring and summer time).
Szeged is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain. The town is famous of its paprika, the Pick salami, the fish soup, the university, river Tisza, the Open Air Theatre (they are held every summer) and the Cathedral.
Let’s see the crumbs…
My mom baked her famous kalács (the best one in the world!)… Kalács can be made for any holiday, but it has the most symbolism on Easter.
I took so many photos of the kalács and the eggs…
Would you like a nice cup of cappuccino?
Breakfast in bed. I don’t remember when we had something similar last time but we deserved it. That’s for sure! When did you have breakfast in bed last time?
Of course I baked during the long weekend. Instead of a cake I baked vegan almond, coconut and chocolate cupcakes for I.’s birthday. This was the first time I made vegan frosting and we loved it so much.
We started doing the gardening too in our small parcel in the community garden. We planted squash, zucchini, Swiss chard, carrot, radish, green bean, dill, coriander and garlic seeds. We’ll also have rhubarb, tomato and green pepper seedlings soon. I. and I are so excited to have a tiny space in the city where we can relax and have some time with mother nature.
Every spring I fell in love with the pink blossoming… I stand under a tree like this for 5 minutes and thank for her (yes, her!) for being so beautiful. 🙂
