Not Hungry in Hungary

hah. 

So I visited Miki in Hungary before going to France, and I ate many delicious things! Hungarians like carbs and sour cream and bread and having a language with 40+ letters.

  Töltött Káposzta: Pickled Cabbage stuffed with meat & rice with sauce and, of course, sour cream.
We got it at the Christmas Market. 

It's hard to eat with gloves and plastic utensils. 

Unicum is a drink that is supposed to be consumed when you're freezing your tail off in the Hungarian winter. It tastes like licorice and a little bit like death but it does actually warm you up! 

I was unprepared for my first shot. 


All this pleasantry and it didn't even snow. 

Miki's mom is an excellent cook and made a lot of the food that we ate while I was there (Miki was too busy trying to convince me to go to the butcher shop). She made a dish called the Emperor's Last Crumbs or his Favorite Crumbs or something. It's crumbly sweet dough kinda, with raisins, and it's served with jam.

We had it for New Year's Eve.

Another New Year's Eve treat: Irish coffee in a Presszo, which is like a bar but not really a bar. Just a place that serves a lot of drinks. Anyway, this particular place, in a town called Vac, served their coffees very strong. 

Hungarian desserts are pretty heavy and full of cream and butter and good things. They go well with coffee or espresso or just straight liquor (kidding).

We had this little snack at the Gödöllö Palace. It's eszterházy cake.

The top was caramelized sugar, which I learned you had to eat by hand.

Like I said, espresso.


Another really good Hungarian dessert is kürtöskalács. It's sweet dough roasted over fire with a sugar coating. You can get it with nuts or chocolate or other things.

It's a good warm snack for a cold day.
Also it will make so you fat that you won't even need a coat next year!

Hot chocolate: Another good warm treat.

I don't know about all Hungarians, but Miki only likes to eat one big meal a day so sometimes he starved me in between meals because I am used to eating smaller meals throughout the day. 

So we had to start bringing emergency snacks with us. 

A popular Hungarian food is langos, which is fried dough served with cheese and sour cream or even meat sometimes. It's like a huge salty beignet that is amazingly delicious. I think it was used by Hungarians of yore to fatten up their children to keep them protected in winter.

They are not stingy with the dough. This one had ham and cheese inside, no sour cream. 

It was one of my favorites but I'm still trying to burn off the calories. 

There were many more foods but I did not document them with my camera sadly. Another trip to Hungary must be made I guess ;)