I WON!!!!!!!! Announcement of results of Mindmegette recipe competition

I WOOOOOON!!!!!! I'm soooo hipersuperextremely happy now!!:)  The result of the Mindmegette recipe competition was announced today which was organized from 25th September to 24th October 2012 by Mindmegette (it operates the largest Hungarian recipe collection) and Lidl supermarket. The full list of winners can be found HERE. The famous Queen Elisabeth Cake also appealed to the jury so I hope it will become world-famous. And after all you won't try this cake now, it's your own fault then!! :) I share the recipe...

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Halloween choco-pumpkin bundt cake

I have planned for weeks to bake something from pumpkin. Constantly I have read this kind of recipes on Hungarian and foreign blogs. I could resist till Saturday. The cold, rainy weather as it was on Saturday I think is always perfect for weekend baking in the warm kitchen so I dropped in the Great Market Hall, bought a nice half of pumpkin, arriving at home, threw in the oven for 1,5 hour then started to bake. I "updated" the original recipe a bit, I changed the normal sugar to erythritol. It didn't get too...

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The famous Hungarian gulyás (a.k.a goulash)

Everyone loves the most his/her mum's gulyás soup but my mum's one is really amazing. When I go home with Mr. M, he always asks her to make gulyás for him and asks me also many times in Stockholm. I always follow mum's instructions related the cooking method so did I this weekend... First of all we need to make it clear what is gulyás. There is a nice and very detailed introduction of gulyás on wikipedia if for some reason someone wouldn't know it. Traditional Hungarian gulyás is a soup, not a stew as it's known almost...

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LET'S PLAY!!!!!

I start a game today.If we reach the 200 likes, one lucky who shares Baklavaria's facebook page, will win a Christmas Swedish cookie and cake collection what I prepare and will home deliver as well of course. Bring it on guys!! ...

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Lemony poppy-seed cake with raspberry cream

Poppy-seed can come any time, in any form and amount. I can always be carried off my feet with poppy-seed. Especially when it's coupled with lemon.  We had some leftover mascarpone and whippable cream from Mum's birthday cake so we invented that we bake something that she can take to her workplace as well to celebrate her b-day with her colleagues. I haven't baked anything for them for a long time what they remark quite often. :) Since we didn't have ladyfinger at home, we couldn't make tiramisu. But we had frozen raspberry...

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Choco-banana muffin - by Leila Lindholm

I travelled to Stockholm on 9th October, on Wednesday to spend a long weekend there and celebrate my birthday with Mr. M. Because of this perfect reason (I always find reason of course when I want to buy a new cook book) I surprised myself with the A Piece of Cake book of the already introduced Swedish blog writer-tv-chef, Leila Lindholm.  The book is supergood, I will introduce it to you tomorrow. Although I have bought the original, Swedish version but I'm sure, that the English edition is also unexceptionable...if...

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My mum's birthday-day cake: Ginger carrot cake with lime mascarpone cream

My mum celebrates her b-day on 24th October. When I was thinking last week about what kind of cake I should bake for her, I wanted to suprise her with what she has never tasted and she keeps after me for it :) In this way my choice became the carrot cake. I used the same recipe as base what I posted for the first time on my blog and Mr. M. loved it also, so I was sure about its success.  I changed the recipe a bit. This time I used mascarpone for the topping cream, grated lime instead of orange and I addmix half lime's...

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Rum-almond cake pop

My first cake pops are ready. Wuhuu!!! For the first try it's not that bad. I still need to learn and improve a lot of course but they are tiny, sweet, choclish and mine :) Before looking at what I have created, let's start the cake pop history at the beginning. Bakerella is the mother the cake balls sticked on lolly pop stick, from who many all over the world adopted and improved it. I reckon it as an incredible idea, because: - the cake in itself is super delicious - it's perfect dessert for smaller-bigger party, family...

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Caponata - Italian aubergine antipasti by Jamie Oliver

Naturally, what else I should have carried with me to family gathering at the weekend than my new 2kg Jamie Oliver book. During the train trip I has read Jamie's experiences in Italy, what he had studied from the local Italian people. While I was reading I had already decided what I will cook today for lunch. My choice was the Italian caponata.  This Sicilian food is eaten by the Italians warm as vegetable side dish or cold as antipasti. The key of the caponata's success is the good quality of ingredients, the fresh aubergine,...

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Leila Lindholm - my favorite Swedish blogger

The Swedish Leila Lindholm knew already as a child that she wants to devote her life to the art of gastronomy therefore went to restaurant schhol without saying. She collected experiences not only in Sweden but in New York's famous restaurants.  A kép a leila.se-ről származik She also worked as a food stylist for ads and commercials in Swedish and foreign food magazines. She started  to cooperate with the Swedish TV-channel, the TV4 in 2004, where she created a completely new type in the history of food television.  Instead...

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Best Tuscan tomato soup - inspired by Jamie Oliver

The season of fresh domestic tomato will end in Hungary soon (and when I will be in Stockholm, I won't have a chance to eat a delicious REAL tomato, which tastes as it should :)) therefore I wanted to prepare everyhow this warm (but it can be also served cold in summer) Tuscan tomato soup. The recipe is from Jamie Oliver. I changed it a little, for instance skipped the bread.  Ingredients: 0,5 kg tomato 2-3 cloves of garlic 0,5 banch of fresh basil (approx. 10-12 bigger leaves) 0,5 l good quality tomato sauce salt, pepper olive...

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