I'm not Hungarian--though some of my relatives came from there but they were ethnic Slavs, not Magyars--but I love Hungary and Hungarian food. Having lived for several years in Central Europe, I learned to make a lot of Hungarian dishes which I continue to cook to this day.
So tonight, I'd like to share several of my favorite Hungarian dishes in the hopes that you will fall in love with this wonderful cuisine as deeply as I have and add something different to your kitchen repertoire.
Mostly, I cook without measuring ingredients unless I'm baking, so in order to give some measurements I have used the proportions for these dishes as they appear Susan Derecskey's The Hungarian Cookbook (Harper and Row, 1972) though aspects of the recipes do not always match those in the book as much of this I have developed and tweaked over time and made my own.
Follow me below the orange Galuska and let's get cooking!