Food

Tried-and-loved recipes I’ve cooked myself and recommend you try as well.

Carrot soup with ginger and orange

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Carrot season is here! Besides being sweet, crunchy, and great in soups, carrots are packed with beta-carotene, which your body turns into vitamin A. That’s what helps your eyes adjust better in dim light. A Hungarian saying goes, “Eat lots of carrots so you’ll learn to whistle!” — but the truth is, carrots won’t help … Read more

Stuffed trout with parsnip purée

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The river was calm that morning, silver mist curling above the water. I have always believed that the best meals begin not in the kitchen, but in the fields, gardens, and streams. When the trout tugged, I already knew what was for dinner… Details Serves: 2Preparation time: 1 hour Ingredients Fish Parsnip purée Preparation Grate … Read more

Barches

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Barches, or challah, is a traditional baked good of Jewish cuisine: a braided yeast bread or sweet roll, sometimes enriched with potato. In families that keep Jewish dietary traditions, it is a customary element of the Friday evening Sabbath table. Details Serves: 4Preparation time: 1 hour Ingredients Preparation Sift the flour into a bowl and … Read more

Nógrád Sour Cherry Cream Soup

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This is the recipe of Professor Emeritus Vilmos Csányi, ethologist, academic, and writer. It is not a traditional Nógrád dish. The name comes from the fact that Professor Csányi’s house was in the village of Nógrád. According to Professor Csányi, the more complexly a civilization performs a task, the more advanced it is — judging … Read more

Bajai Fisherman’s Soup (Bajai Halászlé)

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The Bajai fisherman’s soup is more than just a dish — it is part of Hungary’s cultural heritage, a true hungarikum. Its preparation is quick and simple: unlike other regional versions, the fish is not pressed through a sieve but simply cooked with onion, and served at the end with thin noodle “gyufatészta” (matchstick pasta). … Read more