Borsofozelek, as described by my eldest daughter (in Budapest)...

[HopeHoops]

Borsofozelek - a cream pea soup.

Ingredients: oil, onion, water, green peas, flour, milk, salt, pepper, and Hungarian paprika. She has a picture of her roommate eating some on her blog: http://krystinascrossings.wordpress.com

(There are some other cool pictures there as well).

[Denninmi]

1. Thanks. Very interesting.

I read through the whole thing.

[HopeHoops]

2. She's the goofball in the glass elevator picture.

I haven't heard how her first day of classes went (today, well, yesterday for her now).

[Laurian]

3. Her blog is so interesting.

She seems to have settled in nicely. Have you adjusted to her absence yet?

[HopeHoops]

6. Mostly, but her dog hasn't.

[Lucinda]

4. You know, I really like the sound of that.

I'm a big fan of sweet and hot together, and then when you add the creaminess in, it sounds like an interesting dish.

How are you and Mrs HH holding up with her her so far away?

[Denninmi]

5. He's a nervous father. I've seen it in other posts (some in the Lounge).

I don't DARE tell him what happened to my niece when she went to England for one of these year long student exchange programs.

[HopeHoops]

8. Yeah, I don't think I want to know. Well, actually I do. My niece is a traveler too.

She's mostly traveling for missionary work. She grew up Baptist and she's been in a lot of remote places (like "no facilities&quot and loves working with people. More power to her. I call her "shorty" even though she's got a good six inches on me.

[Denninmi]

9. She never came back!

Well, not to live in the US anymore.

But when she visits, she brings the English husband and the 2 kids every time.



Who knows, you may end up with a Hungarian son in law.

[HopeHoops]

10. More likely a Maryland boy in the Army (her boyfriend of a year and a half).

Things change, but they're pretty damn close.

[HopeHoops]

7. It's her third trip to the region. Hungary, Austria, Czeck Republic, Greece, Turkey.

She's obviously doing better than we are, but she's also a second semester junior so we're used to her being away. If you love something, set it free...

[Lucinda]

18. Exactly. I don't travel much anymore, but I'd love to go to Greece.

Maybe one of these days...I have friends there, in Costa Rica, and in Belieze that I would love to visit!

[HopeHoops]

19. She has thousands of pictures (literally) of Greece. I'm amazed.

The closest I've come to "out of the country" is Canada, and the biggest difference I found was using KPH instead of MPH. I never got the opportunity to go abroad and probably never will. She's considering photo-journalism and I think she would be awesome at it. I always thought she would go into physics or biology or something like that. It's her life, not mine. I've lived mine the way I chose to and my daughters need to do the same.

[grasswire]

11. there are two kinds of Hungarian paprika -- sweet and hot

Apparently they bought the hot. I am often given tubes of paprika paste by Hungarians or Romanians visiting a family member here -- she does humanitarian work in Transylvanian villages over there. I'll ask her about the pea soup. Even more common is the peasant cabbage soup. Ubiquitous!

[elleng]

12. This is GREAT, Hope. Please share more, as time goes on,

and tell her to keep it up!

[Ecumenist]

13. Wow, I was engaged to a Magyar, (Hungarian) for aout 3 years in the late 80's

Still cook alot of Hungarian dishes. She was using hot paprika versus sweet paprika, it seems. I have to find szeged paprika again. LOVE THE STUFF!!

[elleng]

14. Had a large container of it,

moved, sold house, GONE, so just have McCormick's now.

[HopeHoops]

15. McCormick's isn't paprika - it's red food coloring with a slightly detectable taste.

[Denninmi]

16. You know what I say?

Grow 'em, dry 'em, grind 'em. Viola, paprika.

[HopeHoops]

17. Yeah, that's what we try to do, but I'm expecting some more in May...

...when my daughter returns.