On Our Christmas Table This Year
It is a tradition in my family to get together on the 24th of December and start the Christmas celebrations with a lunch feast at my mom’s place. Normally she is preparing a very traditional menu, with fish soup, fried fish with mashed potatoes and loads of Hungarian Christmas cakes, this year she changed up … Continue reading
Merry Christmas!
My Dear Readers, wishing You all a very merry Christmas, may your dinner table be abundant with cakes like ours, with the good old Hungarian Bejgli and Zserbó 🙂
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
In Hungary, kids (and some adults:)) put their well cleaned boots in the windowpane on the night of the 5th of December. If you were a good “kid” all year around, Santa Claus will fill your boots with chocolates, nuts, clementines, sometimes even toys, but if you were bad you will only receive a willow … Continue reading
Gingerbread Cookies with Sugar Frosting
Well I know this is not exactly gingerbread time anymore, but I made these cuties before Christmas for my colleagues and family and I dare to say it had a big success, so why not share it? You can always find a good reason to bake some gingerbread cookies, they will always make your kitchen … Continue reading
Easy As Pie: Apple Puff Pastry
It was the day of the “Reyes Magos” yesterday, and altough we are not celebrating it here in Hungary, I wanted to surprise my (Spanish) Mr with something. Turned out I chose his favourite pastry for the occasion! This is really a truly fast-easy-tasty recipe, if you choose the “lazy” store-bought puff pastry. Of course people with time … Continue reading
Braised Red Cabbage
This yummy thing was a side dish with our December 25th dinner – accompanying a tender orange-garlic chicken (recipe coming soon) and simple mashed potatoes. I found it here and only had to make 1 or 2 small alterations to the recipe. Highly recommended dish : )) Ingredients: 1 kg red cabbage (I didn’t have a big … Continue reading
Christmas Menu 24th December
Christmas is that time of the year when even my family sticks to the traditions and makes sure we always have the good old menu on the tables. Compliments are not for me, thank my mum and grandmother for all the goods this XMas! Another thank you to my Mr for the amazing photos :* … Continue reading
Hot Chocolate in a Jar – Part 2
As promised, here comes the finished product as mentioned in Part 1, the family already received it with great joy so I can share the pictures of this great drink in a jar. The jar is nothing else but an ex-jar of pickled gherkins (thoroughly washed to remove any remaining sticker and of course gherkin … Continue reading
Easy Awesome gingerbread
I simply love gingerbread – the freshly baked little cookies and the process of decorating them together adds so much to the Christmas mood. Unfortunately this year there won’t be any gingerbread baking around here as I managed to smash my main finger with a door… Still I would like to share the recipe I … Continue reading
Hot chocolate in a jar
IMPORTANT please nobody tell my mother and little sister that this will be one of their Christmas presents : ) Though as my mother doesn’t speak English she will hardly understand this post and my little sister did not yet find my blog, we may have a chance they don’t find out about this surprise before … Continue reading
While He Was Out 