Vegetable soup. Zöldségleves

This is my personal favorite soup and the one my mother made the most as it was simple. The ingredients were almost always available in the pantry, as well as it was quick to make. The broth without paprika is insipid. I call this “paprika vegetable” as it’s no ordinary vegetable soup. It can be…

Beans & Hungarian Kolbasz

I don’t think a Hungarian could live without Kolbasz. The soft, smoke cured, heavily seasoned with paprika, links of sausage originally created in the town of Gyula. Gyulai Kolbasz is the national sausage I think. I know it was what my refugee parents missed as I was growing up. After we settled down and had…

Egg Salad Sandwich with roasted red peppers

I made some new traditional meals this week. Stuffed cabbage two ways; the Polish way with tomato, and the way my Mother made it with just a little roux thickening the broth.Two different white bean stew/soups. Three different creamed noodle dishes, one with spinach and with mushrooms. and orzo with chicken and mushrooms. It’s quite…

Mushroom Paprikas’ with buttered parsley rice

Trying to find the balance between taking too much and too little. I had made enough to cover lunch and dinner, so not all of it was eaten. I have to work on labeling and packaging, I’m getting there. Labels either don’t stick or stick too well and I can’t get them off the containers….