Wine Website

I have created a new website as part of my Blogging and Websited class and I would like to link it to this blog to make it more of a personal experience. On the website I provide general information about wines and wine regions in Hungary. To check out the website, you can click on the picture!

Vom Fass

Again, this week I have realized that I am literally surrounded by interesting food stores. On Wednesday, while waiting for the trolley near Szent István Park, we discovered this extremely interesting little shop just a corner away from us. We gazed at the many cans and barrels through the shop's glass window with admiration. I have decided that I'll definitely return and take a look around, because I have never seen anything like that before in Budapest.

Pomegranate Margaritas

Are you searching for an exciting cocktail for your dinner party? Try out Margaritas! This amazing Spanish-inspired drinks not only look fancy, but also taste delicious. Margaritas give a powerful kick to any party, and it will definitely make you dance! ;)

Easy Spinach & Cheese Quesadilla

This meal is absolutely wonderful and easy! Quesadilla is one of the best meals you can make from tortillas: it's easy, warm, spicy, crunchy, and gooey at the same time. I suggest it especially to people like me  who do not have much time to cook grandioso meals. As a university student, I usually face this problem, but having some torillas around can really serve as a tool to make some magic happen. Quesadillas are also wonderful if you want to serve something tasty to your guests. Here, there is a recipe to make quesadillas with spinach and cheese, but you can make it with just about anything: you can add bacon, tomatoes, beans, and tons of chili pepper with lime. Be creative people!

El Rapido

This week I went back to El Rapido, a nice little restaurant and deli that I have visited many times in previous semesters to eat something delicious. This is a tiny place in Kazinczy utca that is perfect if you want to search for Mexican ingredients, beverages, or even if you just want to drop in for a mouthwatering taco, burrito, or quesadilla.

Culinaria Italia

"Oh no, what, Italy again?" you might say, and I just nod cheerfully. As I am still waiting to have some time to visit the Greek deli, I have decided to focus on Buda, again. Now that I have been walking around Mammut in the past few weekends, I realized that there are tons of delicatessen shops inside and outside of the shopping center. This is the brief story of how I have found this particular store. I usually don't like Mammut, because for me it's very crowded and noisy, but as I wondered around yesterday, I found this huge sign pointing at a direction and indicating a delicatessen shop. That is my main problem with Mammut, that the place is so illogical and confusing, you just get lost wandering around the small corridors. But this time, I was lucky to find something fun! 

Stuffed Grape Leaves

As I said, I love this food very much, so you can find the recipe below:

The Greek Delicatessen CBA - Sad ending of the Greek week.

As I have mentioned in my previous post I had to face some difficulties in the past few weeks regarding my Greek-week project. The problem is that this shop mistreated me. Maybe I was hurt because I was expecting more than I should have. I don't know. But I am going to tell you the truth anyway, and still I'll try to recall some information about the content of the shop.

Oriental Spice and Food Store

Honestly, this week I had less ideas than usual, firstly because of my disappointment with a Greek deli (which I will explain in a separate post), and secondly, because I really want to be concise with the content, so I want to stay on the East. On the other hand, I ran out of Eastern delis. Then, suddenly, my friend, Eszter started to tell me about this little Oriental food store in Buda, just a corner from Millenáris. What really drew my attention to this place is that regardless of its size, which is quite small compared to other food stores I have visited previously, it still has an offer just as good as any other. As I mentioned in previous posts, no matter how many food stores I visit, I simply never run out of ingredients yet to discover. Well, it wasn't any different this time.

Lassi

Lassi is a very popular and delicious Indian youghurt-like drink. It can be made salty, savory, and sweet; it goes woderfully with hot and spicy Indian dishes to cool you down a little bit. Lassi is very simple to make, however it is neither expensive, nor unhealthy. I really recommend you to try it! Here you can find one version of the many ways you can make your own delicious lassi.

Exotic India

This week we continue with Eastern flavors and fragrances by introducing ourselves to the diverse gastronomic universe of the country of spices: India. For this occasion I have visited the best Indian delicatessen shop in Budapest, Szép Kis India, which is located in the heart of the city, on Wesselényi Street. This store is truly a guard of original Indian tradition as it is managed by an Indian family. Now, this shop is really the one that a European fellow would definitely label "exotic", as Szép Kis India, with its colorful products and mouthwatering sights opens the world of Eastern cuisine to us.

Culinaris

This week we'll take a little break concerning specific international cuisine and we'll have an overview of what we have learned and what is yet to come. Naturally, I found the perfect shop for that occasion! Culinaris is located in the very heart of Budapest, in Balassi Bálint utca, a minute away from our beautiful Parliament building. The characteristic of this colorful food store is that it offers delicacies from almost every national cuisine. It can be very handy for a gastro-geek like me to find everything at the same place and not having to fish specific ingredients from different delis scattered around the city. Let us now get carried away with the diverse tastes of Culinaris!

Chinese Pineapple Chicken

This is one of my father's specialties and he was so kind last week that he decided to make it for me. So, here it is. Enjoy! :)

Asia Shop

Yesterday afternoon I decided to accompany my aunt to the big market on Vámház körút and she mentioned that there was a superb Asian delicatessen shop right next door, so I peeked in. Wow! There is nothing (and when I say it, I literally mean NOTHING) you cannot find in this enormous food paradise! I found it especially amazing, as this was the first shop that I haven't visited before, which is strange, because I have walked around this place probably more than a thousand times. With this, I welcome you to the diverse culinary world of Asia, and even more!

Fish & Chips

This is probably the most popular food that you can get in England, and, luckily, it is also one of the cheapests. If you walk into an English diner or restaurant and ask for the good auld fish and chips, there's no way they don't have it. It is simple, tasty, and inevitably very easy to make if you want to cook a delicious English meal at home. No matter how and where you eat it: from a simple white plate in a crowded cafeteria or packaged in newspaper on a busy street, it always tastes sooooo English! Read on, to find the ultimate recipe of this wonderful meal!

England? Tea Time!

Afternoon tea is probably one of the most traditional parts of English culinary experience. This custom found its origins in the 17th century and it has been a defining element of "Englishness" since then. That is why I have decided to introduce one of my friends' blog which deals with tea in great detail as well as teahouses all around Budapest. Happy brewing everyone!

Follow this link to view the blog: Care for a Cup?

The British Store

This shop is nothing like any other stores we have been examining before on this blog. It is not that big, not so fancy, and yet, it still very much deserves to be mentioned as the key part of my English week. The British Store is located in the XIIIth district of Budapest, in Tátra utca 26, and opens the magic storehouse of British delicacies to us.

Clafoutis Grandmère à la Virginia Woolf

My friend found this genius recipe and she decided to try it out, and it just turned out wonderful. Not only this is a very traditional French pastry (which fits perfectly as a closure for my French week), but also it is introduced in a book "Kafka's Soup". This is a bestseller cooking book that tells recipes in styles of very famous writers, in this case, Virginia Woolf. I can't wait to get my hands on it! This is, I think, a stylish "Au revoir!" to our French cooking week! :)

You can find the recipe here! Special thanks to Fanni Petrák.

à table!

If you are searching for quality French bread and pastry, or just want to eat a real croissant with a cup of coffee on a cold morning, then à table! is the right place for you! This charming artisan bakery for me has now become the king of all pastry shops in Budapest. And to make us gastro-geeks happier, à table! has just opened a new boulangerie- patisserie in the city center of Pest, in Arany János utca (which is, by the way, less than 5 minutes from Pomo D'Oro). Let us take a look at the amazing supply of à table!'s baked goods!

Easy Parmesan Risotto

This recipe is very simple and yet quite delicious. Risotto can be made a hundred other ways, but I think this is a good basis to start with and then we can get more creative. It takes less than half an hour to make it!