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i think i'll buy the gozintos to make some tonite when i go shopping, i've already got some nice sharp chinese garlic that needs using, also some shredded cheese and sour cream, and bacon.... :) i type with mouth watering as well. i know about all the other ways to eat langos, but didn't want to get carried away...

am not too fond of them with sweet stuff on tho. prefer krushtikis (sp.?) and the fried crepe pies granny made. i'd kill for a good sauerbraten mit spaetzle. haven't cooked one in a while, used to make a good one. takes a fair amount of time to marinate the meat (the longer the better).

p.s. - garlic water - sprinkle with kosher salt after wetting them with the GW.

p.p.s. - for those of you who are not sure, here is a video with clear simple instructions on making langos.

[video=youtube;Z79n7vsFQek]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79n7vsFQek[/video]

even i can follow those!
 
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Shavru said:
Bawanna, you are definitely a sheepdog type, We have quite a few of those here in this little corner of the internet fortunately. It is a very good thing to be a sheepdog.

JW did you bring home a decent recipe for Djuvec rice? and there were these hamburger patties stuffed with the local cheese... OMG YUMM. Never got a real name for those and can't even find the type of cheese. Man I miss the Balkans...of course I was there a long time before the mess you had to be there for. Guessing it isn't the lovely place I knew back in the early 80s anymore.
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I tried like hell to get a decent Bourek recipe-we wouldn't get the meat ones since a) there was mad cow there and b) if it wasn't beef it was horse, and I won't eat horse-but on patrols we lived on Bourek ba gheis (sp?) (the cheese ones), tube cookies and turkish coffee.
 
kronckew said:
i think i'll buy the gozintos to make some tonite when i go shopping, i've already got some nice sharp chinese garlic that needs using, also some shredded cheese and sour cream, and bacon.... :) i type with mouth watering as well. i know about all the other ways to eat langos, but didn't want to get carried away...

am not too fond of them with sweet stuff on tho. prefer krushtikis (sp.?) and the fried crepe pies granny made. i'd kill for a good sauerbraten mit spaetzle. haven't cooked one in a while, used to make a good one. takes a fair amount of time to marinate the meat (the longer the better).

p.s. - garlic water - sprinkle with kosher salt after wetting them with the GW.

p.p.s. - for those of you who are not sure, here is a video with clear simple instructions on making langos.

[video=youtube;Z79n7vsFQek]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z79n7vsFQek[/video]

even i can follow those!
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Gotcha! Do you speak Hungarian, I'm half- myself?

If you ever get in a Romanian restaurant...you guys have to try "papanasi"...it's a traditional fried or boiled pastry resembling a small sphere, usually filled with a soft cheese (the closest thing I can compare it with is the donut...not quite, but I don't have a better comparison...); sour cream on top and crannberies jam. As simple as it sounds, it is very, very tasty.

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I am also partial to the Hungarian or Romanian version of "sarmale": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_roll#Romania .

And since we are speaking about Hungarian cuisine, let's not forget the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash (other countries in Europe have their own varietes)

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- and you haven't eaten a proper one unless it is made out of 3 meats in a cauldron, usually on an open fire after a hard days' work :).

This thread is literally making me hungry and I was stuffing myself with food not long ago.
 
krushtikis (sp.?)

Crispy twisted cookies with powdered sugar? My mother loved them. The Polish spelling is chruszcziki. It means little beetles, as in Khrushchev. :)
 
ndoghouse said:
Ive had Macedonian mousaka (sp?) It was kind like meatloaf. They used to make a puffy flat bread to go with it and serve it with potatoes. Man that was so good:p
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I lived in Bulgaria for 2 years.

Love their Mousaka (Bulgaria and Macedonia used to be one country).

Some great Turkish food (and Indian and Chinese) when I was there.
 
yes, i usually only talked her into making Chrusciki around xmas.

i remember her cutting he rolled dough into rectangles then slitting the middle & twisting them thru the slit like this:
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then they get deep fried & dusted with icing sugar & look like this:
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if she was in a hurry or if she let us do it, the fancy twisting went out the window & they looked like this : :)
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delicious.

my granny on my mother's side was austro-hungarian, she lived in galetia, as she described it 'halfway bewteen krakow and vienna. geography was not he long suit. it's part of poland/ukraine now. so i grew up with an odd mix of austrian/polish/hungarian pastries & food, mostly austrian/polish. i do not speak any hungarian (i was joking earlier when i said 'easy to understand instructions'). it is an ancient language more related to finnish than the celtic german and romance languages or even russian. which means it's a BlTCH to learn. i was more successful at getting her to make stuffed cabbage (golabki). she'd make it either german style (with sauerkraut) or polish style (tomato sauce). i preferred the german style, she preferred the polish.

anyway, i did have langos for dinner last night, with bacon lardons (panacetti) & cheese with a garlic/olive oil/sour cream sauce. looked like the picture i posted earlier.

i cheated tho. as i went shopping, what did they have in the tesco supermarket but a flatbread with cheese/garlic topping. i added more pizza cheese & the bacon, 7.5 min in the oven, then topped with the sour cream sauce. again delicious. i kinda overdid the garlic tho, it burned all the way down. i've got half the bread left for tonite. think i'll dilute the garlic with the rest of the sour cream. note: chinese garlic bites back.
 
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Well, you got one heck of a childhood :D. Not bad at all.

Nothing bad with cheating either, in this case :) and Chinese garlic always gets ("surprises") me as well.

Spot-on about the difficulty of learning Hungarian...well, to me it seems simple BUT I see how everyone feels when trying to. Truth be told, before going to school in the 1st grade, thanks to my mother, we were speaking (reading & writing) two languages, but since then, not having enough opportunities to "practice" Hungarian, I have "lost" some of it. OTOH, I see how much better my English becomes after around one month in US every year...so I guess this is to be expected.

If the TV is on and a Finish movie plays in the background while I'm involved in other stuff, for a few moments I *always* have the impression it's Hungarian.

Sauerkraut -mmm... - now that I found out what it means....I sometimes just eat it plain :).
 
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My grandmother was born in Austria but a lot of the food she made was like Hungarian. She grew up in "Germantown" in NYC, which was German, Jewish, Hungarian, Czech. I lived there 20 years ago and it was still heavily Hungarian.

Stuffed cabbage, potato, carrots, tomato sauce is good. Golabki, golubki. "Golub" in Russian is "pigeon".
 
Moonw said:
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Sauerkraut - I sometimes just eat it plain :).
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me too. makes a good side dish with porky things, or in sandwiches with roast beef or pastrami. or the traditional frankfuter. sadly, with all the cultural blending of the EU, germans now eat their wursts with curry sauce. i'm still a traditional german wurst mit senf eater.
 
kronckew said:
me too. makes a good side dish with porky things, or in sandwiches with roast beef or pastrami. or the traditional frankfuter. sadly, with all the cultural blending of the EU, germans now eat their wursts with curry sauce. i'm still a traditional german wurst mit senf eater.
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Nothing against curry sauce but when it comes to anything meaty if I get the chance to taste the original stuff as perfected by Germans, I never have second thoughts :). I thoroughly enjoy each and every visit to Germany in great part because of the food.

Corny, starchy, light stuff for breakfast? Not in Germany. Meat on the table!
 
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If the TV is on and a Finish movie plays in the background while I'm involved in other stuff, for a few moments I *always* have the impression it's Hungarian.
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i recall that dutch (or was it danish ;)) background babble on trams and busses sounded very english until you heard exactly what they are saying. frisian is probably the closest non-english language to english, you can pretty much figure out what they are saying & visa versa but you need to concentrate.
 
kronckew said:
granny used to make something similar. but not for dessert.
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Well, they are a very filling dish. Cinnamon and sugar, and I'm a sucker for plums. I'm leaving office hungry and today was supposed to be "Day 2" of shocking my body with a diet.

I am not that sure anymore. A few years ago I got rid of 17 kilos in 3 months, so I can be quite stubborn and serious - but this thread is bad, just too bad for me...
 
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