Calendar Week 24 and a Half

I know I have changed my posting to a weekly basis but I just had to share these. I have been spending some time in the early mornings in the inner city of Budapest. I take this time to have big walks around the Grand Market area. Patched with narrow streets and old houses, there is a cafe or a boutique on every corner. Lovely to walk around and take the scenes in. The streets are filled with dog lovers walking their pets who would catch up on daily news with sniffs and small barks.They know each other oh so well.The air is filled with the scent of esspressoes milk and pastries.Butiques still closed but even the window displays are worth stopping by. My favorite is Rózsavölgyi Chocolate.They offer cocoabeans, bergamot rinds in chocolate, hot chocolate with lavender and hot paprika, hazelnut gianduja spread for breakfast breads. All too too lovely to miss if you would have a chance to try. Their designs for wraps are also a feast for the eye.

The central marked is buzzing with people looking for the best fruit and vegetables and meat for cooking. In the early hours no tourists are there only the house goddess wannabe early birds hunting for the finest ingeredinets.Old ladies and B2 and B5 women the last in designer attire best to catch up on the latest bag and shoe  fashion. This is the best place to get chocolate swirls and coffee to go at one of the stalls sit by the side of the Danube and see the city wake up.

Calendar Week 24

Big changes on the blog and in my life. I have taken a chance and restyled. Ripped all to bare truth. Simplified as much as I could . I love simple things lately.I will also alter the way I wright to have more clearness and to have things more transparent.

 Some of you might wonder why I have not been so active with my sewing and crafts. I have been busy with our lovely garden. Growing lovely vegetables and flowers. This is the first time I do something like this and I made sure that I have a wide selection to try what is the best for this soil which is very sandy. I had perfect luck with zucchini, radish, pumpkins, peas and tomatoes. I love being out and see how things grow from day to day. I had my first harvest this week of radish, coriander, strawberries and black cherries.Hmm so full of flavor.

 My flowers turned up absolutely lovely especially the sweet peas which have the most amazing smell of all absolutely lovely. It is a great joy to pick my own flowers every day from the garden and place them in different places in the house. Especially on the bedside table. Love that I can enjoy the scent while crocheting. I have also managed my window displays. I hated that the soil would get on the windows when it was raining so I placed some of the beautiful shells I have collected over the years in Sicily, Brighton, Bray and Sandymount on the top of the soil and that solved all that.The week was lovely full of expectations and joys.A lot of sun with afternoon summer rains what else could I wish for?

Wood Garlic Picking

Rezi is a lovely small village on the far side of lake Balaton with hills and woods.People mostly visit in the spring and climb the steep slopes to pick wood garlic. Haven't been over here since we left for Ireland and even we are back for 3 years now we haven't been visiting for some reason. I think we needed this. We needed the distance as seeing a place after years makes it much more beautiful than how you remembered it.
These hills, so gorgeous that they take your breath away with high trees and green woodland full of flowers.

 

 

 Wood garlic covers the ground like a sea of green.

 On the top the views are wast with a panoramic view to the country side just gorgeous it is like a huge green patchwork quilt as far as you can see, with patches of small lakes volcanic hills and the Balaton.

We picked a lot of garlic also some we taken home for planting in the garden. The rest I used for pesto which keeps for a long time in jars. There are so many ways of use pickle the roots, flowers or the berries with leaves.Pesto can be mixed with curd or yogurt or into anything sour.I also love it on meet as a marinade.
The taste is just like garlic with a bit of woodland scent so it mightn't everyone's cup of tea but worth a try.

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