I love eating and cooking Hungarian style foods.
Was wondering how many ex-pats actually try their hand at recreating Hungarian dishes.
I had many hits and misses over the 40 some years of cooking Hungarian foods.
These days I can say that because of allot of practice, I have more hits then misses.
I have not really done much Hungarian baking, my husband likes doing that once in awhile.
I now can appreciate the differences in varies paprikas.
I now laugh when I am visiting the US grocery stores and see the tiny little bottles sold in the stores.
They would last about a day in Hungary.
Gave away packages of paprika as gifts only to find out that some people still have them around after years!
In the US paprika is used only for color on salads most times.
I didn't cook red meats for over 30 years, so these past 5 to 6 years I have learned about making a few nice meat dishes as well.
The only thing that sometimes is too strong for me is cooking bacon with bacon or rather pork with pork. Hungarian cooking does demand allot of meats, I sometimes replace with chicken or turkey.
One thing I do enjoy making and finally I believe I have perfected it is the red cabbage with caraway and grated apple.
Many years ago my mother bought me a Hungarian cookbook.
She said if you want to stay married to a Hungarian, you had better learn to cook Hungarian.
So old fashioned of her but actually I think she was wise.