Monthly Archives: September 2013

Turos Csusza (Feta Cheese Sliding Flat Noodles)

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DSC00478This simple meal is  widely available in Hungarian restaurants, and is much beloved by children.  It often precedes a Hungarian fish soup.   Vary the proportions to taste.  Serves 4.

Ingredients:

  • 7 ounces Hungarian flat noodles (lasagna noodles can be used instead)
  • 3 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
  • 3 ounces Mexican style sour cream
  • 2 ounces Hungarian bacon, cut into 1/4 inch cubes and rendered
  • Olive oil to keep noodles from sticking

Cook noodles until firm tender. Drain.  Pour and mix in enough olive oil to keep the noodles from sticking together.

Assemble on individual plates in this order:

  • Place  1/4 th the noodles on a dinner plate.
  • Add 1/4 of the crumbled feta cheese
  • Add 1/4 of the  sour cream
  • Top with 1/4 of the rendered bacon

Serve immediately.

 

 

In a Word: Simplicity

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DSC00483   Modified photo of a bust of Albert Einstein.   Here is something Einstein had to say about simplicity.  “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”  ~Albert Einstein, possibly a paraphrase by Roger Sessions.   If something can be made easier, and still be portrayed accurately, great!   This is what we want to do.

In a Word: Context

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This street is in the context of a city.  Many people live in this context.  The city affects everything in the lives of those who live in it, and each forms part of the context of the others.    Nothing we consider can be in isolation.  There always is at least one context.