Turkish cigarette börek with minced meat - Kıymalı Sigara Böregi

Before bringing my newest Turkish recipe, I would like to introduce the world of börek to everyone.  Börek The origin of börek as many other traditional Turkish dishes goes back to the Ottoman Empire. Whithersoever the ottomans wandered and settled, the local people still prepares their foods during the centuries, moreover the Turkish kitchen gave inspiration to new dishes as well. The pastry-based dishes are dominant in our days too, exceptionally various and numerous of cooking techniques exist.   We...

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Weekend in Madrid - tapas, sangria, paella, flamenco

Madrid = summer - love - walk - Corral de la Moreira flamenco show - tapas - sangria - tortilla - paella - gazpacho - Mercado de San Miguel - Plaza Mayor - ¡Holaaaaa!!! Drinking sangria (Plaza san Andres) I haven't mentioned yet but we love travelling with Mr. M and fly a lot around the world (I think I will open a separate page on the blog for our travels, fortunately we have a lot to tell). 2 weeks ago M. wa on business trip in Madrid and we decided that I also book a flight and we spend the weekend together. It was a great...

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Plum linzer tart 2.0 - this time with juicy rosy gage plum

On the day when I published this post's original Hungarian version last Thrusday, I woke up at 5.30 in the morning to bake this cake for my colleague's farewell party and to pack because I have travelled to Madrid in the afternoon. First I didn't plan to bake because in the previous evening I wouldn't have had time for it but on the way home I saw that at the greengrocery close to my place was still open at 9pm which generally closes at 8pm. I considered this as heavenly sign!! Fortunately I could buy rosy gage plum as well (I...

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Vanilla-fruit baskets

Last evening my friend, Ildi and me created these miracle baskets. I filled them with the cream, Ildi decorated. :) You could meet already a lot of different linzer pastry recipe on my blog. In all of them the rate of flour-butter-sugar was different. This time I worked with the classic linzer pasrty rate, with the 3:2:1 version. And of course, my favorite, the grated lemon zest didn't drop out either. Yammm! Ingredients: For the pastry: 30 dkg flour 20 dkg butter or marge 10 dkg castor sugar 1 egg yolks 1/2 lemon's zest For the...

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Turkish stuffed pepper - Etli biber dolması + a little Turkish cuisine science

On Saturday walking in the Big Market I was thinking about the weekend menu when I saw that beautiful bell peppers are sold at one vendor. They had just perfect size for the Turkish stuffed peppers so I bought four pieces immediately. Dolma The Turkish word dolma (means "stuffed, filled") comes from the Turkish verb dolmak which means "to be filled". The dolma word is used for stuffed dished, for instance vegetables, meat, fish, fruits and even desserts. The dolma's tipical filling is rice, minced meat, onion, tomato or...

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Cherry - cottage cheese cake

When I was living in Békéscsaba, in my hometown, we often went to Gyula and always turn into the Kis Kézműves Confectionery where my favorite was the cherry cottage cheese cake. We discovered it about 15 years ago when once we come round around opening hours. We looked at the offers when the still lukewarm, nicely redolent, castor sugar-sprinkled cheese cake was brough from the abck yard. Since we don't like the traditional confectionery meringue cakes (I think who grew up with home-made cakes, couldn't swallow these confectionery cakes),...

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Apple pie - as we like

There is one favorite apple pie in every family. Either grandma's or mum's. This is ours. And I guess, some of my colleague's for a while since I baked this for them. At one time, 2000 BC we had received the recipe from one of my mum's colleague. It was written on a small paper for a long time which we put always to a safe place somehow that it took hours and hours to find it hidden in a cookery book. Learning from the above since I live in Budapest, this recipe is written in a notebook what I got from my best friend for my name...

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Turkish stuffed eggplant - Karnıyarık

At the weekend I was in Turkish mood again. Almost for a week I haven't prepare any Turkish food, I started to have withdrawal symptoms.  On Sunday I undertook to cook the lunch. This is interesting only because once in a month when I go to my hometown to visit my parents, I enjoy that I'm a kid again, mum cooks, so I can get rest a bit as well. However on Fridays and Saturdays I always bake together with mum. We chat meanwhile something stupendous is born in the oven.  Regarding the Sunday lunch, because there was...

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Queen Elizabeth Cake - My favorite

This moment came through as well. When ages ago I planned to start this blog, I pledged that I will publish this recipe in my very first post. On the one hand because this is one of my recipes which I have never seen before published neither on Hungarian, nor on international forums. On the other hand this cake is incredibly delicious and therefore I reckon undeserving that this cake hasn't received the deserving attention and place int he world of desserts. I'm sure about everyone will love it, who tastes and hope in a little while...

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