Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2013

Miccsoda?

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What can you learn from a single line on a menu?  Well, at times, quite a lot... The picture is the specials at the "grill" b...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Words don't come easy

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When Bill Bryson moved back to the US (to live not far up the road from me, in fact) he wrote a book of his experiences as a long time expat...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fruits of our labours

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As regular readers of this blog (not sure if I should go with a plural there, but what the hell) will know, last year we became landed gentr...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Cold Turkey on Bread

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I have given up bread. Not permanently, but for the time being. I haven't eaten so much as a crumb of bread since Monday. This is qui...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Inglia

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In the second of our holidays this year (hark at us, two foreign holidays and owners of an out-of-town estate for weekending. Fancy bastar...
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Alacant let go

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What can I say about Alicante/Alacant? On the negative side, it's a pretty ugly place. There is a castle on a hill in the middle of th...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Tök paprikás

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Yesterday I invented a new dish, which, I believe, will quickly become accepted as a new standard in Hungarian cuisine. Actually, I cannot ...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

The Great Romanian Restaurant Scandal

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I was going to write something about some US food critic called Anthony Bourdain and how he's managed to upset Romania with his less tha...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Seven Hills

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(Apparently this blog has been locked by "spam prevention robots". I always thought there was a niche in the kids TV market for a...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Gastronomic globalisation

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It has been three years since I moved to Romania, and in that short time much has changed here. I'd like to let you know that it was my...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The world's most refreshing drink

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I have recently been introduced to the most delicious and refreshing beverage known to humanity. All you need for this drink are two basic...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

Nipples

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Sadly this year the strawberry season came and went before we even realised it had ever got going. One day they had just arrived and were s...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Fillet of Crap

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I recently discovered this video, which purports to show "A World Without Romania" I learned one or two interesting things from it...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Not near, but Spar

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When I was a lad (some years ago) the most common shop in England was "Spar", which apparently was some kind of franchise operatio...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Ardeal Meals

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I am seized by a hunger to post about food and drink here, and so to kick off I thought I'd do a little bit about meals and what they in...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Cake

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I made a cake yesterday(it was Erika's birthday). Not very interesting I know, but for me it was quite a new thing. While I fancy myse...
Monday, January 09, 2006

The last days of diszno

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The weeks leading up to Christmas here are a time for festivity, fun, frivolity, and porcine genocide. Over the weeks of advent, I was invi...
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Saturday, January 07, 2006

Best things in Csikszereda

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Well, it's the end of the year (or at least it was when I wrote most of this), and it seems only proper that I do what every other publi...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

Hrean man

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Lately, I have been eating a lot of horseradish. I have decided that it (horseradish) is one of the finest and most underrated of vegetable...
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Winter Vegetables

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It is, as you may be aware, winter. This means the range of veg. on offer in the market is significantly reduced. This, indeed, is why we ...
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