Palacsinta | A Hungarian Pancake We Never Had for Breakfast
Palacsinta is a thin Hungarian pancake (crepe-like pancake), an all-time kids’ favorite. After moving to NYC, I worked with kids for years and introduced palacsinta to all. Great success! I still receive messages from some with a photo of a stack of freckled beauties. “It is palacsinta-day!” Getting these reminders…
Chicken on a Bed of Salt | Never Enough Thyme?
Baking with salt has various ways and a long history around the world. One involves using pastry wrapped around meat; another one is burying, say a whole fish, in a pile of loose salt before baking. Other methods call for adding egg whites to make a salt paste. In my…
Dutch Baby | Sometimes the Sweetest Coincidence Leads You to the Recipe You Need
A breakfast recipe for the lazy or the quarantined. Basic ingredients and a fresh take on pancakes. One Sunday morning, a couple of years ago, I was looking for a breakfast recipe. A meal that is relatively quick and easy to make but also satisfies my urge for a span-new…
Coconut Yogurt | Something is Satisfying about Cracking Open a Coconut
How to put a delicious sweetmeat to use? Two-step recipe for making coconut “yogurt”. I fell in love with fresh coconut water on a trip to the Dominican Republic. Since then, I buy whole coconuts. Sadly, the meat always winds up in the garbage in the end. I drink the…
Savory Dutch Baby | Not Sweet but Lovely
Savory Dutch Baby – the sibling of the sweet Dutch Baby, a fluffy, light breakfast pancake of German origin. I met the sweet Dutch Baby first. Inspired by a tutor who taught me to allow new possibilities to transform old ways of being, I figured, there has to be a…
Ferment Your Head | Cabbage in Brine
A 5-day quarantine that brings out the best of your cabbage. Although I knew of this recipe from Dad for years, I haven’t tried it until I was stuck at home and decided to make sauerkraut. With an ancient fermentation method, I discovered a fresh take on the classic sauerkraut,…
Kifli | A Half-Moon Shaped Traditional Hungarian Pastry
Kifli [kih-fli] is a Hungarian pastry, probably one of the most popular. It is half-moon shaped, can be savory or slightly sweet, with no limitation on toppings—salt, cheese, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, olive, dried onion, you name it. I prefer the classic, plain butter kifli, which is slightly on the…
Everyday Pancakes | Bring Fresh Fruit to Your Breakfast Table
A perfect recipe to use up those ripe bananas. #zerofoodwaste I love trying new things. A while back, I was into paleo cooking, and a friend of mine gave me lots of recipes to try. Over the years, only a few survived my lifestyle changes and even less passed my…
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