HUNGARIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION : CALGARY - ALBERTA

Lots of Canadians with Hungarian ancestry.  This club is in Calgary. (There's also a club in Toronto, which I posted about before.  You can bring up posts by clicking on the tag Canada!) 

HUNGARIAN HERITAGE IN CANADA : CALGARY ALBERTA CLUB  Go to this site and you may use it to find a club in another province.

HUNGARIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CLUB - SANTA LOOKS LIKE SANTA! TORONTO

HCCC ORG 

Wow!  The have a chandelier that looks like the crown of Saint Stephen and Santa Claus looks like Santa Claus...

Excerpt:   From autumn to spring during the Ball Season, the Cultural Centre and the Hungarian partner associations organize balls and entertainment on various Saturday nights, where children and adults of the Greater Toronto audience can have fun, have an ample Hungarian dinner, and dance to live Hungarian music.

In addition, other cultural events (such as Literature Day, Hungarian Day), clubs (Cooking Club, Film Club, Pensioners Club) and performances/lectures (such as Semmelweis Memorial Day) are organized in the Hungarian House in such a manner as to provide an audience, of the widest possible interests, with entertaining and valuable programs.

A WONDERFUL HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN AMERICAN COOKBOOK

ZSUZSASCOOKBOOK BLOGSPOT = WONDERFUL HUNGARIAN COOKING  New link here May 31, 2024

Canadian of Hungarian Heritage, Zsuzsa has given us fantastic recipes to follow!

EXCERPT:  From LENTIL STEW - LENCSE FOZELEK
This is a repost with a motto.  If your lentils and green peas end up in the same jar, separate them or discard the whole lot, because nothing good can come from cooking them together.

“Még nyílnak a völgyben a kerti virágok,

Még zöldel a nyárfa az ablak előtt,

De látod amottan a téli világot?

Már hó takará el a bérci tetőt.”

Petőfi Sándor, Szeptember végén

The flowers still bloom in the valley gardens.

The tree is still green outside the window.

But over there can you see the winter’s world?

Mountain tops already wrapped in snow.

Sándor Petőfi, September’s End

Yes fall is upon us. Bitterly cold air blew two weeks ago when grandchild and I embarked on a bit of shopping. I don’t know why but I thought of lentil stew as we made our way from the car to the mall. And so here is what I made from a new bag of lentils. Now that’s much better. This is real lencsefőzelék. I don’t cook it for New Years out of principle. Nobody can accuse me with superstitions, because knock on wood, I don’t have one.

DO YOU HAVE ONE VIOLIN BOW OF ROMANI (GYPSY) BLOOD?

How Romani are you?

I've met more than one Hungarian who claimed to be part Romani, but in talking to Romani while doing some Canadian Hungarian research, I was told that the two never mixed.  

As is the case now, DNA can tell the truth.

I wonder how many people have tried to explain their yellowish or dark without a tan skin, or even skin that tans easily, as mine does, as being part Romani?  (The Romani have been determined by DNA research to have been from India originally.)

There are other explanations, of course, such as Jewish, Tartar, Mongolian, Italian, etc., and frankly, while there has been intermarriage,  like official marriage, in churches, temples, mosques, and civil, there has also been rape.

TO MY READERS AROUND THE WORLD! HAPPY 2011!

Hello my friends from around the world!  Happy New Year 2011!

I want to thank my new readers who are connecting here not just from the United States, which I expected (and am very happy about) but also in CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, HUNGARY (how would I feel if absolutely no one in Hungary had yet noticed this blog ? Terrible!), CHILI, SPAIN, SOUTH KOREA, GERMANY, and SOUTH AFRICA!

If you are in CHILI, SOUTH AFRICA, or another country and are of HUNGARIAN ANCESTRY please let me know!