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Eat

Baked rice pudding – Rizskók

I’ve been using this recipe for a baked rice pudding for many years.  When my friend Zsuzsa offered for me to taste the pudding for the first time, I knew I had found one of my favorite recipes, and since that time I’ve never used a different recipe.

Eat

Chocolate chunk brownies – Csokis brownie

This dessert is a classic.  Deliciousness is guaranteed.  The recipe is from Frame-by-Frame Baking, a visual step-by-step cookbook from the British series Love Food.  But even without these kinds of illustrative photos, the making of these brownies is incredibly easy.

Eat, Read

Books, stories, and recipes – Könyvek, történetek és receptek

For me, reading is an essential and beloved activity.  It has always been and it always will be.  I used to read a lot as a kid, as a teenager often late into the night, as a college student on crowded streetcars and buses, juggling the book in one hand and holding on to the rail with the other.  I still do – all of the above.  My days don’t feel complete unless they are finished with reading.

Make

My yarn basket – A kötőkosaram

Knitting has been one of my favorite hobbies for a long time.  I started with easy projects – like scarves – and moved on to knit hats, pullovers, sweaters, vests, a skirt, mittens, a doll, even a blanket.  There was a time in my life when I knitted with great intensity, then other interests took over, and knitting got abandoned a little bit.

Plant

Leafy carpets – Levélszőnyegek

Wind and rain, late October and early November, and you have a perfect recipe for a thin or thicker, yellow, brown, red, or multicolor, crunchy and shiny, or wet and sticky formation on horizontal surfaces.  I call them leafy carpets.