HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION - LIST OF HUNGARIAN ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION - LIST OF HUNGARIAN ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

The California Hussars?!

UCLA Hungarian Club!

Dance Ensembles...

Hungarian Refugees in San Francisco ....

A LOVELY VALENTINE

MY DOG : MY VALENTINE

My dog is my Valentine.

She is now considered officially "Geriatric" but her love of life and willingness to have adventures and go go go with me means that sometimes I wheel her around in her cart or carry her a while between walks. 

A doggie- door in our residence means that she can go outside without waiting for me to come home to take her out, so I'm not sure if she actually pee's more often. 

I was looking in her eyes to see for myself but was never sure if it was the lighting or cataracts.  The vet says cataracts for sure. 

Her hearing?  I think she hears me just fine since she still seems to come to me when I call, especially when the words are food or treats. 

She has lost teeth and there isn't much I can do about it since I can't afford to put her asleep for dental care.

She defends her food with louder sounding "puppy whelps" when another dog is in wait for it.  I sounds like an alarm.

Her appetite, digestion, and poo-pooing seem to be in order; all dog owners watch for changes that might indicate trouble.  So far this year no fleas.  Last year she had fleas - not too bad.  The year before it was a battle - just horrible - she was tearing out her hair.  I do my best to give her good food but there have been some controversies about grain free food.  To her kibble I'm adding wet and mushy - green beans - carrots - salmon - beef - people food without too much spice or too much salt - sometimes canned dog too.

I can't imagine life without her.


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VALENTINE MANDALA

THE SOUP COMES FIRST - THE NUTS COME LAST : HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPES

 

This Hungarian / Hungarian American stereotype is certainly true about me.  It's that Hungarians love their soup and start most meals with soup.  It's one of those stereotypes that does no harm and so it's one I like.

I usually have soup only, or soup as a starter for mid-day or evening meals.  The broth is a wonderful way to get all the water you need without drinking water.  The heat is good for your sinuses!  You can use whatever needs using in the fridge or garden.  You can low simmer broths for hours made of the same.

Over the last several months I've cooked big pots of soup almost weekly and of course I share.  I've tried new recipes using spices including paprika, of course, but also coriander and cumin.  I've used yellow peas, lentils, kidney beans, black beans.  Green, yellow, red peppers.  Cloves of garlic.

I've used cracker crumbs to create the not-Kosher version of matzo ball soup.  Basically you mix eggs, a little water, and olive oil , then throw the cracker crumbs in.  Mix it up to a sticky consistency.  Put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.  Bring water to a rapid boil.  Put spoonfuls into the boiling water.  Let the balls rise to the top and stay there three minutes.   Take them out with a slotted spoon and put in the broth, which you can enhance with your choice of celery, carrots, onions, garlic, parsley, etc.

If you are a polite person, here in America  you scoop your broth and soup away from you to the far north of your bowl.  Slurping too loudy is considered rude.

So what is not true of this stereotype is that it always has to be "Goulash."

I recently ate soup at a new Japanese noodle restaurant which features three different broths and five levels of hot.  I'm not into hot.  Their claim to fame is that they simmer their broth for 24 hours.  They say what makes a good broth includes an ingredient called SOUL.  Everyone is wild about this place, which opened as a minimalistic hole in the wall, and has been so busy the waiters are going crazy.

WHAT INGREDIENTS IN HUNGARIAN COOKING WOULD MAKE FOR SOUL?

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A SENSE OF HUMOR BADLY NEEDED

A sense of shame and embarrassment over a President who I've come to abhor is only somewhat balanced by watching Saturday Night Live parodies of him and other elected officials before and after the impeachment debacle. Lampooning and mudslinging are part of the American tradition - opinion and artistic freedoms are important.  Probably every American President has been ridiculed publicly but never has it been more intense and divisive.  And yes, I think American is going to endure this for a total 8 years in office. I imagine VP Mike Pence secretly desirous of the Presidency, of having numerous supporters in wait, even plans for how he would appoint to the cabinet.

Never have their been more unfilled vacancies in the State Department.
Working for Trump is a great way to get fired and/or ruin your career.

Elect him if you want more senior citizens homeless in the streets, if you want more school children to have diets lacking nutrition, if you want more people forced to fake it and become members of churches to get their needs met.

Sorry to say.