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  • May 28, 2016

    Smoky tomato gazpacho with condiments

    Smoky tomato gazpacho with condiments

    This soup was one of my entries to the easy summer eats. I love soups. And even more so I love tomatoes. When I was a kid I was really into tomato soup. My grandma made the most amazing one. Then one day she came up with this crazy idea that she would make it…

  • May 26, 2016

    Just another market day

    Just another market day

    Without any further ado just a few photos of the beautiful produce at the market yesterday.

  • May 24, 2016

    Summer salad

    Summer salad

    This salad celebrates some great summer fruits peach and watermelon. The sweet watermelon and the tart and sweet peach need some contrast in the salad. So I added crispy prosciutto and a hard, salty cheese ricotta salata. It is a variation of ricotta and it is dried and salted. For the vinaigrette I used the juice of…

  • May 24, 2016

    Sumac spiced goat cheese pasta with sweet corn and blistered tomatoes

    Sumac spiced goat cheese pasta with sweet corn and blistered tomatoes

    So here we are. SUMMER. Almost. The produce at the market definitely has changed and the summer staples are slowly popping up. Lucky me. I decided to come up with a few summer eats for a contest, but I was surely not prepared to buy some imported, bland tomatoes or watermelon. Because for me these…

  • May 23, 2016

    Vanilla rice pudding, balsamic strawberry sauce and strawberry nectarine salad

    Vanilla rice pudding, balsamic strawberry sauce and strawberry nectarine salad

    How to make this yummy balsamic strawberry sauce? Chop 1 pound of strawberries and cook it on low heat with about 1/2 cup of white cane sugar, juice of 1/2 lemon,  1 T very good quality, thick balsamic vinegar and approx. 1/3 cup of water.  Feel free to adjust, you have to end up with a sweet, thick…

  • May 20, 2016

    Farmer’s cheese dumpling and strawberry textures

    Farmer’s cheese dumpling and strawberry textures

    This idea came as a result of my love for farmer’s cheese which is the closest dairy product to the very popular Hungarian “tehenturo”. We, Hungarians love our “tehenturo” which, if I really want to try to describe, I would say it is more like a curdled soft cheese. We consume a huge amount in both…

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