Recipes

Sertés pörkölt (or diszno pörkölt) is a traditional Hungarian pork stew. It is full of flavour but yet surprisingly has very few ingredients. For this reason it’s very easy to make and so has become a staple meal in our home. Somehow, onions, pork fat and sweet Hungarian…

I stayed in a hotel in the Dolomites in 2014 after a week’s cycling and had an amazing Dolomites vegetable soup. When I asked our lovely host Tiziana, the hotel owner for the recipe, she gave me a very suspicious look! “The recipe?” she asked in a tone…

Mum’s Victoria sponge recipe is the one she used for as long as I can remember. In truth, most Victoria Sponge recipes look suspiciously similar. I suspect it’s the same recipe used by every 1980s British housewife, with only the variations across the country being the filling. Victoria…

Tökfőzelék is Hungarian Stewed Squash with Sour Cream and Dill. It is one of the unique tastes of Hungary. It’s pretty much the only recipe I have found that makes use of the tök, a vegetable grown all over Hungary. It is very similar in size, taste and texture…