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Recipes

Túrós csusza with lecsó {Recipe}

Túrós csusza with lecsó {Recipe}

{Pasta with Curd Cheese and Stewed Peppers and Tomatoes} What can be better than pasta smothered with curd cheese (túrós csusza) topped with paprika-tinted pepper and tomato stew (lecsó)? It only requires simple ingredients, and I could eat it night after night (which I sometimes do when there’s a big batch of lecsó around)....

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Szilva Lekvár {Recipe}

Szilva Lekvár {Recipe}

{Plum Jam} Until last summer when I discovered how easy it is to make jam in my own kitchen, I coveted the jars of homemade apricot jam that my mother-in-law gave us. I worried about the gap between when our jar ran out and when we’d get a new one. Then I watched how...

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