Well...Hi. :)
I am Csilla, a 21 year old girl from Hungary.
How not to make it sound like a cliche, I wonder, but the truth is I really always have loved to be in or around the kitchen. This is my favorite place to be in my or any other home...
I basically go into a kitchen, a completely unfamiliar kitchen and I know right away where to find anything.
I think this kinda bizarre love for kitchens come from my other love; cooking. Or rather say baking. It makes me happy. I'm an experimenting cook. I always have a new recipe I just cannot wait to try out. I always have some favorite dishes I feel like I could eat forever but usually it wears off quickly.
I'm all for simple foods. I like a recipe that is not a hundred pages long. I like one that is simple, straight-forward and allows to use my creativity. Although, from time to time I get this fever-like urge to make something that definitely doesn't fall into the simple and easy category. Like croissants. And I must tell that I still haven't figured out the way to create the perfect croissants. Like the ones you eat in France. I'm not sure I will anytime soon but it's on my list to learn.
I don't go to culinary school. Although, I am most definitely sure that I will sometime in my life. But right now I am in college with the major of international relations. Because my other thing is traveling. It is my motivation, my dream, my purpose. To travel and breath in all the cultures with its gastronomy in me. I love, I emphasize LOVE to eat other nations' cuisines. My all time favorites are: Thai, Russian, Italian and my newest love is Indian. Oh and I love American desserts :) I love many more but I am most familiar with these ones. It is in my plans that I will pick a few dishes from as many nations as I am able to and cook them! And after that, of course, post on this blog.
Hmm, that is about me in a nutshell. Thank you for reading :)
csilla. love your blog. i am an australian living in Szeged. i too haven't perfected the art of baking croissants but i can recommend the recipe of the Tartine bakery in San Francisco -the recipe is a little fussy but the end result is fabulous. Have you seen tastespotting.com or food gawker.com
ReplyDeletethey are fabulous web oldalok... look forward to more of your postings.
tomorrow i will go to the szegedi pica and buy some fresh apricots to try your new cake recipe. i love the summer fruits in europe.
thanks, rachel
Thank you Rachel! Really, you live here in Szeged? How come?
ReplyDeleteOh I am sure to try out that recipe! Where can I find it? I've tried some fussy recipes, as well, it's no problem with me as long as I get the results! :)
Ooooh you're making the apricot cake?? Yayayay!! Let me know how it turns out!! Mine is still pretty delish after 2 days!
And yes, I know tastespotting and foodgawker! Foodgawker is my favorite, I have posted several of my recipes already :)
Thank you for the kind words!!
Oh Csilla I am so thrilled to have found your blog. I was in need of some recipes to feed the masses and found my way to your blog via fBook. I am getting ready to host a mob for my up coming wedding on 12/12/12. I will have a house full of guests and I just can't wait to try several of your recipes. Starting with your zucchini basil soup. I think I will try this today just because I can. I too love melted cheese and look forward to your eggplant basil grilled on rye. Your deserts sound amazing and the pasta divine!
ReplyDeleteThank you my dear and keep up the creative side of your passions.
Good luck in graduate school and if your ever in the North West, Hood River Oregon please let me know... I would love you to sit a spell in my kitchen!
Thanks again, Joanne
Ciao Bella
Dear Joanne, thank you for writing!!!! :) First of all, congrats on your wedding!!! I wish you all the best! :) I hope you'll have as much fun making the recipes as I did! Let me know how they turned out and of course how your wedding went!!!
DeleteThank you again! I hope I'll hear from you again and again! :)
Hi Csilla,
ReplyDeleteI started a blog very recently, basically as an online food travelogue. Very thrilled to have found your blog while doing some extra research for my post about Cafe Gerbeaud in Budapest. I hope you don't mind me linking your Zserbó recipe to my post here, http://ravenousscientist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-perfect-evening-in-budapest-cafe.html.
Am really loving the recipe selections you have on your blog. I have my eye on the baked cinnamon doughnuts! They seem deceptively healthy...;)
Keep up the good work!
Hi Eliza!! Thank you!! Of course, I don't mind :) Good luck on your blog! I am checking it out as I'm writing you right now! Yes, make those doughnuts, they are a lot healthier than the normal ones! :) Thank you for writing!
DeleteHi csilla, im hungarian as well and im also learning the hang of cooking. My apuci birthday is comeing up and he loves pogaca so for the first time im going to try and make them myself, my mom doesnt like to cuz its to much work she says but she does know how as well as almost all the hungarian dishes. We moved to palm springs ca, in 1986 and lived in budapest before moveing out here. My grandparents still live over in budapest, which is pest now. Thnk u for the reciepe hopefully they will turn out great! Thnks eva
ReplyDeleteHi! Thank you for sharing it with me! :) How did they turn out? Did you like them? Your mom is quite right, though. They are a bit of work but sooo worth it! Do you ever come to visit in Budapest?
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