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Főzelék + Earthquakes = Recipe for Disaster?

I'M NOT GOING CRAZY! THERE WAS A FREIKIN EARTHQUAKE HERE!!

I totally felt it. The whole building shuddered and swayed on New Years Eve. It even woke Kasia up from her nap on the floor. It was like being in California all over again. I texted the guys, and they thought I was being stupid, that it was fireworks or my imagination or something.
But it wasn't my imagination. It was a 4.1!!
Take that boys.
Like I'm gonna trust Ohio to tell me what is and isn't an earthquake...sheesh.
Good thing I rule.

Oh, also, apparently there are people who are sad that life has deprived them of főzelék.
Be still ye mighty beasts of public outcry!
Make your own.

Zöldbors Főzelék
(Green Pea Főzelék)
--The peas in this recipe can be subbed with kohlrabi as well, which is also super awesome.

Saute about 3/4-1 cup finely chopped onion and enough garlic to fit your personal habits in about 2TBSP (but whos gonna know if you add more?)

get these all soft and transparent, like a bad liar, then add the veggies..about 2 cups (and chop the kohlrabi, seriously.)

Let the green stuff brown in the butter for about 15 min. DONT LET THE BUTTER GET TOO HOT. If you brown the butter to much, you run the risk of not being able to make a good rue, or of possibly even burning it, which will make your yummy főzelék taste like butt gravy.

After this, slowly add and stir in about 2-3 TBSP of all purpose flour. Let this cook with the butter into a nice rue.

Then add between 1 and 1/2 cups of veggie broth, chicken broth, or milk, or half and half. I mean, pick ur poison really. The flour should make the soup really thick. It should form peaks. It shouldnt be quite as clumpy as a heavy veggie casserole. Think the consistency of consentrated Campell's soup, but with lots of stuff in it. Experiment with the water till you get it right. Remember, you can always add more.

Simmer this for a while, then serve in a shallow bowl with fried things floating in it. Fried anything. Go nuts.

Then, go here and fully congratulate yourself on taking your first steps into the mind-boggling bastion of excellent oddity that is Hungarian culture!

And then stand in the safety of a door frame just for good measure.

Labels: food, procrastiation, thin justification for my existace

posted by Veruka2 @ 10:14 PM