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Weekend Crumbs

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I posted my latest weekend crumbs back in June. It is high time for a new one. I took a lot of (surprisingly) photos this past weekend.

Saturday morning I took a friend of mine to the organic farmers market. I walked around with her because it was her first time at the market. Early morning the weather was sunny but the fall air was crisp and cool. We loved to breathe it in as much as we could! After the market she invited me for a snack at a close bakery.

In the afternoon I baked Emiko’s florentine grape bread. Although I over rose the dough, it tasted delizioso!

This weekend seemed like the perfect weather for organic farms visiting. On Sunday we visited two farms in Fülöpjakab, in the Southern Great Plain region of Hungary.

One of them was the Nemes Eco Farm (with  the two lovely owners, Mátyás and his wife, Marika). On the farm horticultural activities are carried out all the year round, by applying the methods of vegetative growing in green-houses of foil with minimum heating, and cold forcing of the plants in green-houses of foil. Hardy plants are grown on the fields from early spring to late autumn. Some 70-80 plant varieties are produced in a year.  The garden is open for visitors any time. For groups of visitors, lectures or presentations on organic horticulture can be arranged.

The other farm we visited was the Organic Mushroom Farm. The owner is Sándor Gyöngyösi  and he has been engaged in growing the mushroom variety oyster mushroom (+ shitakee) for 15 years. He also produces the famous ganoderma – a genus of polypore mushrooms. By taking ganoderma mushroom as a herbal supplement (only organic), you will get long-lasting reserves of energy, feel better and stronger and notice that your body is functioning more effectively and efficiently.

Autumn radish…

Kale heaven…

Oak leaf salads…

Bales of straw…

Mangalica pigs – a Hungarian type of pig, it has cute curly bristles…

Ganoderma mushroom…

Huge cauldron of bean vegetable soup…

Whole wheat bread rolls are rising…

Furnace baked whole wheat sourdough breads…

Well deserved lunch at the farm…

Gem Bites

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I will start a new category of posts besides my Weekend Crumbs. Thanks to the internet I keep getting lots of inspiration & useful information about gastronomy and other topics in such great quantities, that I can hardly digest the load. Today is one of those days. I have just tweeted out the load of inspiration and my favorite finds that have reached me today on the Internet but I thought that on a weekly basis I’d put these into blog posts and share them with you all so you can also bookmark the worthy stuff. So grab a cup of tea, a hot chocolate or a cappuccino, have a bit of your favorite cake or just a slice of your favorite chocolate bar, lean back and take 30 minutes off for pure enjoyment.Cheers!

Street Food: The Monthly Mingle Roundup

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Thank you for participating in the Street Food Monthly Mingle and thank you, Meeta for letting me host this event. I got to know more and more beautiful food blogs & bloggers around the world. All the attendees sent delicious food recipes or intersting, new-to-me stories I didn’t know about. I learnt a lot and hopefully you will too.Note: this is the only time when meat appears on my vegetarian food blog! 🙂

And now… let me introduce you all the participants of this Street Food Monthly Mingle… Come travel with us around the world!

Simone at Junglefrog Cooking – Prawn coconut spring rolls

Sayantani at A Homemaker’s Diary – Char kway teow (Malaysian stir fried flat rice noodles with shrimp)

Richa at Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice – Chicken kathi roll

Eva at Food Vegetarisch – Mücver (Turkish zucchini fritters with yoghurt)

Mairi at Toast – Spicy grilled salmon and salsa two bite salad

Ren at Fabulicious Food! – Watermelon and feta salad with Za’atar crumble

Tandy at Lavender and Lime – Pap and wors with tomato and onion relish

Katy at Happy Baking Days – Papas rellenas

Hannah at Bright Palate – Royal milk tea

Robin at What About the Food? – Spicy Tunisian chicken kebabs

Elise at Homemade – Dondurma Maraş (chewy Turkish ice cream)

Shivani at Yellow Butterfly – Jhal-Muri

Jehanne at The Cooking Doctor – Simit (Turkish sesame bread ring)

Karin at Yum and More – Porchetta sandwich

Sonali at Mellow n Spicy – Samosa chaat

Meeta at What’s For Lunch, Honey? – Currywurst

Me, myself & Zita at Zizi’s Adventures – Lángos (Hungarian fried flat bread)

Monthly Mingle Streetfood

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I started writing my Hungarian food blog a couple of years ago (the English one a bit later) and I remember that one of the first foreign food blogs I discovered was Meeta’s What’s For Lunch, Honey? She is one of the most talented food blogger and food photographer, a real role model for everyone (she is for me :)). That’s why I’m honored to be the host of Monthly Mingle August – a virtual food and recipe game started by Meeta.

I chose Street Food as this month’s mingle theme. One of my dream is to travel around Vietnam and the first thing I’ll try there is pho soup. My idea is to share your favorite street food recipe of your country or share one of your travels’ favorite street food recipe. Hope you get excited just to read this month’s theme. 🙂

How to participate in Monthly Mingle:

1. Create a dish that fits the Street Food theme.

2. Post about it on your blog from now till 31 August midnight 2012 (entries must be in English, please).

3. Your creation should be prepared for the current Monthly Mingle theme and shared with a maximum of 2 other blog events. Let’s try and keep the creations as fresh as the ingredients you use.

4. You must provide a link to this post and the official Monthly Mingle page.

5. Once you’ve posted your dish, please email me at zizi[at]ziziadventures[dot]com with Monthly Mingle in the subject line and include:
– Your name
– Your blog name
– A link to the post where the dish appears
– The name of your dish
– A 550 pixels wide photo

Let’s mingle together and travel around the world!

Stay tuned until my Hungarian street food recipe!

Weekend Crumbs

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Some weekend crumb photos about the organic farmers market and food we ate. We didn’t do much just relaxed, read books and watched movies. It was a perfect weekend after all.

Cute red raspberries and redcurrants…

Green veggie heaven…

Beautiful summer colours, fruits, vegetables… I always fell in love with summer markets’ colours and smells.

Every Saturday after the market we have a small indulgence at Brót Bakery: cappuccino and pistachio roll are our favorites.

There is a new waffel place in Budapest, called ‘Habos Gofri’, it means fluffy waffel. We checked the place out on Saturday afternoon. Our favorite was the chocolate whipped cream waffel. A-m-a-z-i-n-g and addictive…  We couldn’t stop until 3 waffels each. 🙂

Vegan hazelnut vanilla pancakes with fresh raspberries and maple syrup for breakfast on Sunday morning…

Bank of river Danube…