by Liz | Mar 11, 2021 | Breads and Desserts
Chimney Cakes (Kürtőskalács) are delicious! There are many versions and I probably could love them all! Recently I noticed that Joanne Toth-Lysiak was creating and posting about her Chimney Cakes on Facebook and I was intrigued! So I contacted her and asked if she...
by Liz | Feb 6, 2021 | Learning Hungarian
Special thanks to Naoki for compiling this list! ~ Liz People here know I’m a Magyarphile. No matter how many times I mention some nation I love, Hungary always remains #1 and their language remains the one I love most. And history shows that there were...
by Liz | Jan 26, 2021 | Connect with Others
Having graduated from Kinesiology (the Science of Human Movement) at the University of Waterloo (1995), I try to incorporate movement into my pieces whenever it fits with the subject matter. My father’s family is Hungarian. My grandfather immigrated from...
by Liz | Oct 29, 2020 | Connect with Others
Kürtőskalács Can Change Your Life… … or, How We Went from Litigating to Leavening. We were corporate litigators in Florida for almost ten years. Now we make “chimney cakes”. Out of the frying pan and onto the rotisserie grill. But ours isn’t a...
by Liz | Sep 24, 2020 | History and Inventions
Thank you, Noel, for letting us take a peak into the past of your family and of many families who experienced the ugliness of Recsk. We visited there last year with one of our tour groups and it was a somber visit. The drizzly day fit the mood as we learned about the...
