Besides the pessimism, current politics and all the problems, THIS IS also Hungary.

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 As you probably know - if not now I'm telling you - Hungarians not only celebrate birthdays, but also namedays. Today it's Sándor and Ede. I don't know any Edes, but my dad and son are both called Sándor, so today we called dad to wish him well and I made cake for my son. Tomorrow it's hubby's nameday, he is József.

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 So, finally, a meat dish! I hear your sigh of relief, but do not be fooled ! This iS a meat dish, but with noodles as a side dish MUAHHAHA =)

Nay, really. It's one of the easiest and yummiest food that a poor dead chicken can be transformed into.

Chicken paprika /Paprika chicken/ Chicken Paprikasch or anything you wish to call it

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Happy birthday Jon!!!!!   Hope you enjoy Vegas! Hugs to Mr Owl, too :)

March 15th is a very important date in Hungarian history. You can read about it here.


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Just a tiny bit belated, let me show you two of our traditional doughnut recipes, typically made in Hungary in the "carnival" season.

The first is called Csöröge and is a very simple but delicious, crunchy type of thing. In fact, you wouldn't call it a doughnut as it's basically plain fried egg pasta.
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Youtube video of Hungarian actor/singer Tamás Cseh (R.I.P) singing a song about the tragic outbreak of the Austrian-Hungarian-German soldiers from Buda castle February, 1945. With slideshow of Budapest during WWII.

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Another video with archive material.

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Update on the Decaironman race in Mexico: our hero, the Hungarian Ferenc Szőnyi, who first tried an ultra tri last year, won the race, the world cup and bested the WR by 10hours!!!! He did each ironman within 12 hours!!! The other Hungarian guy,Károly Brauer-Orbán who is barely 24years old (!) finished 9th place.

Go Hungary!!!!

So, I never considered myself a real patriot nor did I consider myself too emotional, but hey, I did tear up watching this.
The vid is of a multi-event(walk, bike tour, running) at our Great Plain, that happened last weekend. Unfortunately, I couldn't go this year. The editors were nice and did not include the "sandstorm" :p

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