Hungarian Langos

Hi family and friends. 

I apologies for not posting. There has been other things on my to do list and this keeps being on the bottom of my list as i can't seem to finish my to do lists every day. But I had to make an effort to start posting again, so i hope you don't get overwhelmed. First of all, i have to post this. I had this yummy, delicious food this weekend. And you can make it too. 

I had a chance to hang out with Jan's Mom, Andrea.  I saw a man eat this, then a child, then more and more people walking by me eating it. So i asked Andrea if we can try it. She's never had one so we were on a hunt. We were in Karlsuhure Saturday morning, at the Christmas Market trying to find this donut people are eating. 

Finally, Andrea, the brave one she is, asked a few women who where holding one each. They told us where it is and that there were many flavours. You can have it with just sugar, cinnamon, both, cheese and this garlic sauce, or just plain. It's similar to like the elephant ears you have at PNE, but thicker like a donut. It was yummy.  So i thought i'd share this yummy food before i start blogging more of my journey. If you decide to try to make it, let me know how it goes. Or i'll do the same. Good luck. :)

From chriesi 2 years ago

• Serves 10

Lángos is a deep fried flat bread made of potato-based dough. It is sometimes rubbed with garlic or garlic butter, but can also be eaten with sour cream, grated cheese, or other toppings. The name comes from láng, the Hungarian word for flame, because traditionally it was baked in the front of the brick oven, close to the flames.

Ingredients

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• 600 g flour 
• 500 ml milk 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1 tablespoon sugar 
• 20,5 g fresh yeast
• 2 tablespoon oil 
• oil for frying 

How to make it

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• Warm milk, it should be lukewarm.
• Put yeats in a bowl, sprinkle sugar over it, add lukewarm milk.
• Sift flour, salt and knead a dough.
• Add 2 tablespoon oil and knead into the dough.
• Leave for about 30 minutes in a warm place so that the dough can raise.
• Cut into 9-10 portions and deep fry in hot oil. Serve with sour cream and cheese.
• For the red currant foam beat 1 egg white with a pinch of salt. Add 5 tablespoon sugar, one after the other and add 150 g red currant in small portions to it.

Snow Vs. Glasses!!!

Readers from all over the world. :)
Thank you for continue to read my posts and keeping an eye on what I'm up to. I haven't been very good on blogging lately as I started to work and learn more about how to tutor someone. It's been a great experience, but I feel that I know have enough knowledge so i'm reading lots and preparing a lot to ensure that I teach the right material and that I'm prepared for all kinds of questions. Hence, I haven't been blogging as much as I would like.
So I hope to keep blogging more of my thoughts, and my journey in life. I constantly check where I'm at, how i'm feeling and what my next step may be. Life seems so short when you do have time.
But when there is time, you gotta take the time and have fun.
Yesterday, we woke up to 2 inches of snow. It was very pretty. Then the sun came shining down upon us. It was even better. So, when Jan came back from class, we went outside to play, just like kids, which we all are. I hope you had time to get outside to play. It helps relief any stress you may have. Unfortunately, when it becomes too much, adults having way to much fun, there might be accidents. You may throw too hard, hit too hard, or facewash someone good!!! I sure did, but what I got back....broken glasses. Opps. We were having way to much fun. I hit Jan in the face with a snowball. It was bang on. I was sure waiting for one coming back to me. But instead of a snowball, a bit of a fist instead. WHACK!! Right on the tip of my glasses and now they are in two pieces. Fortunately, we were able to find the small piece in the snow. WHEW!!! I'm sure i can tape it back together. I'll just look like a geek. It would be a great story to tell. Jan didn't feel excited to be in the snow any more. It was just an accident. No big deal. I can live with broken glasses. It's not that I haven't done it before.
I remember breaking my glasses playing basketball. I remember my contacts falling out during a volleyball game. Me can't see....isn't the first.
So we went home to see what I can do with my glasses. I put that silly puddy or that blue/white tack stuff. It sure looked good. Then Jan's mom suggested to go to a optometrist to try to get it fixed.
Se we quickly planned out where to go, and got my glasses fixed. New again. :) See. No sweat. No more sad Jan!! :)
There is always a solution. :)
Until another accident. Happy Snow Day. Picture of our snow day to come...oh and more on my italy trip. I promise. It's always in progress. :)
Cheers.

CAPRI in ITALY

Hello readers. More on my update of my Italy trip. Yes, i'm not done showing my pictures yet. Thank you for waiting patiently. Starting a new job and learning German has distracted me from sitting down to write. I hope to continue to keep writing as i have been taking lots of pictures.
Well, these are pictures from Capri. It's an island off of Naples. We took an early ferry as it was cheaper than the later times.

The weather wasn't the greatest when we got there. The clouds covered the island. Then it start to pour. It was cold and miserable....but as a Vancouverite, I guess I should be use to it huh.
Guess what we found!!! A FIG TREE! It wasn't on any propery. It was like on the streets so we happily helped ourselves to some figs. Another girl from the hostel came with us and she must have thought we were crazy. But that's the fun part of it.....exploring fruit from the region.

We just like fruit. Any fruit. I need my daily fruit intake. If not, I get cranky. hahaha. I sure need sugar....I haven't had anything today. Perhaps i'll go get a mandarin orange now. :)  In germany, I can get any fruit here. It's just like Canada. You can get any fruit you want. It all depends on where they come from. Most of the fruit are local, but after the season, they come from abroad. It's tough to eat locally. BUT, the only fruit you can get locally is Jan's grandparents apples. hehhee. They have  about 5 apple trees or so and they have those apples all year round. I just don't understand how apples can be kept for that long. It's amazing.

So the early morning was nice. I'm in summer clothes hoping to spend the afternoon on the beach. It's a nice place here, but the weather wasn't really cooperating with us.



See, the sun is out in this photo.

A new fruit. Or is it a fruit. I don't know what it was so i didn't pick it to eat it. IT looks like a flower, or not a rype flower. hahhaa

Does it even look edible?

So here is a picture of the clouds rolling in. YIKES! How long will they last?

Here is a neat ceramic sign for a pub. I liked the sea theme. :)

As for the picture on the right, .50 Euros to go to the bathroom. Like I said before, if i can find a university to go to the bathroom, why should I pay!!! But there are times when you can't find a University, hence you have to pay. BOOERS! Had to pay for the bathroom.



So instead of heading out in the rain and on the beach, we had an early lunch/snack. We needed to kill some time as we didn't want to leave yet, but also didn't know when the rain would stop. So here I am, it's raining outside, and I'm having ice-cream. hahahaa. I was told to have NETELLA ice-cream. It's to die for....well, i'm not sure if i'll actually die for an ice-cream. I did enjoy it thought. Although, it was 3 Euros. What an expensive ice-cream. But i'm in Italy...that is where ice-cream was invented or made!!! HAHAHA.

So, we heading out of Capri thinking that it wasn't going to get any better. We were cold and didn't want to stay anymore. THings are expensive as it's a tourist place. Lots of hotels and people on their honeymoon. IT's beautiful, but I think we saw enough. Soon after, the sun came blazing out. What a bummer. We already got our ferry ticket to head back. Oh well, perhaps another time.

On the way back, we sat on the deck. We took pictures and watched the waves go by. Near the end of the ferry ride, I thought i'd take some pictures of Naples from far away. BAD IDEA!! I was sure getting sea sick. So glad that I didn't stand up earlier.

So as we got back to Naples, we walked around town to shop, and look to find more figs to buy and perhaps grab a real lunch.
We then saw this huge tube of nutella. They love nutella. It's in everything they make. YUM. In the photo on the right, i found this car with their lock. Oh my, if they are scared that people are going to steal cars, look at this. No one can steal this car. hahaha.

So here I am, found a catus fruit. I bought one to try what it tastes like. I wasn't sure how to eat it or what to do. I finally opened it up and gave it a try. Hum.....no impressed. Did not like it at all. Perhaps i didn't pick a rype one or it was already too rype. Not my kind of fruit. YUCK! The ice cream flavor was good. But it wasn't too sweet. So that might be why the fruit wasn't yummy.

Pizza was the thing in Italy since, for 3 Euro, you would get a medium pizza that can fill you up for the whole day. YUM!
After that, we went to get ice-cream. I wanted something new. So I got the ice-cream chocolate in a ball. There was a bigger one that I should have gotten instead....if only Tanya shared it with me. Otherwise, my stomach can only handle so much food.

Naples had a little Christmas street selling all these handmade ornament. They were so pretty. But so fragile.


Anyhow, these are some pics for Capri. Hope you enjoyed it. Praya is next. Gotta have a break. Learn some German vocab.

SHOP instead of WORK!!!

This weekend ended on a high note, but started off with a bad note!!! hahaha.
On Friday, I had a training for teaching courses over the internet. We left at 12:30pm for my 3pm training. It only takes 45mins to get there....to Stuttgart. We were going to head there to shop around and be in the town to explore. But instead, we explored the AUTOBAHN HIGHWAY!!! We were at a complete stop. Not moving for a long time when we got to the highway. We moved a bit, but not enough. We waited and waited and still, like everyone else, stopped to see the fields and other cars. There was a huge accident in the tunnel where we were headed. It is a major entrance and exit out of that town so many people were not able to get in or out. When we did start moving, we decided to go off road....4 by 4ing. whoohooo...but still, the cars were going way to slow for me to get to my training. First ever, missed a training. What can I do? I couldn't fly there. What a bummer. So instead, we started to head towards Jan's parents place. We ended up going to a larger town to shop a bit. It basically took us 5 hours to get there, when it only should have taken about an hour and a half. The accident really stalled our time. NEVER, EVER go on the AUTOBAHN HIGHWAY!!! It's just not worth it. Just go up and down the mountain even if it takes an extra 15 mins.
Perhaps they will have another training soon. I guess it just stalls me for working for that company a little longer. Oh well, I have this other company. I start tomorrow. Whoohooo. Kind of nervous, but I'm sure i'll be fine.
So we spent the weekend at Jan's parents place. It is always nice and peaceful. Last night, it was warm and we went for a walk around his own. I was star gazing a lot and say Orion's belt and other stars that were out. I did have the classic winter, hot, wine that Europeans have...but the German way and probably that made me not sleep at all. Yikes. I should have that again. hehee.
Anyhow, heading back home through the mountains this time. I hope we will see snow. :) That would be nice.
Happy Remembrance Day Weekend!

10 laps on the TRACK!!! WHOOTOOT!

So, yesterday was a beautiful day....but the weather is starting to change. I pondered on running or not...realizing that I may play volleyball for 4 hours. I decided not to run as I start to plan to go to work on Monday....gotta prep for my teaching. As I was on my way to volleyball, traffic was bad. I was going to be late. No big deal. It was only drop in.
So I stepped into the gym to see many people playing already. One of my Green Tree Dream Team teammate yelled out to me and said "Molina, not worth you time!" I didn't get it at first, but then he repeated it. The level of play is beginners....or should I say pre-beginners. I was told later that there were 3 people that stepped on the court for the very first time. I'm glad I didn't play. Instead, I went outside for a run. I ran 10 laps in about 25mins. I was impressed. BUT, as I was running, this old man, must be 60 or 70 passed me. He must have just started. So i kept up with him for a while. I couldn't believe how much in shape he was in. I was impressed. Then this other guy, about 45 to 50 years old, passed me twice!!!! TWICE! OUCH. This means that I am so out of shape and I'm not a running. Then a track team was training and a few of the boys passed me. They must be around 20 years old. GEEE!!!! What do I have to do to get back on track? There is so much food around here these days. Perhaps once i get working, i won't have time to bake and therefore, i won't be eating all this bad things. HUMMMM....good though eh.

Well, off to Ottersweier today, but first, detour to Stuttgart for training at another language organization. YUP, got hired for both organizations that I went for an interview on Tuesday. It just depend on the class or assignments. Have a great weekend. Cheers.

Pompeii, Day 8 of my Italy Trip

 POMPEII, DAY WHAT!!! I THINK I'VE LOST TRACK!!!

ENJOY THE PICTURES.

 Alright, I'm behind in my story telling of my trip.....life has just been keeping me busy. Had to find a job to start paying for something. I gotta pull my weight. It's just not fair to Jan to pay for everything. Gotta be a independent woman right!!!!

None the less, I also gotta post more pictures of my trip. Here is my section of Pompeii. There were two sites to see all the ruins. Although I like the history that has been created, all this sight seeing makes me tired. The weather at the time wasn't the greatest. We weren't sure when it was going to rain. But in the end, we had to go even when we were tired of sight seeing. Why go to Italy in the first place if we weren't going to see the place. :)

Here is part of the Colosseum and this is where they take the injured gladiators out of the Colosseum.  Tanya is slowly going out of the rink as she had a huge battle with the other tourist. HAHAHAHA.  As we continue to sight see, we saw gardens, gardens, rooms of how the people use to live, etc. But knowing us, we got bored really easily. So what do we turn to.....FRUIT!!! We saw this lemon tree...humm...could we eat it?  Then we had to go to the luuu....there was a persimmon tree. WOW. So ripe. How can get get one??? I told Tanya that if she stood on my shoulders, we could get some!!! HEHEHEHE. WHY NOT! No body is looking. hahaha. Who's going to eat it? They all drop to the floor. What a waste. 

Well, around the corner, we went to take more pictures of the view. But at the corner of my eyes, I could not resist. Pomagrantes. YUM!! I wonder if it was ripe.  So I took one and opened it. Is it eatable? Will I die from it? There were other peels off the ledge. It wouldn't hurt to have one. So we picked a few. It was our lunch. It was a sunday and there weren't many things open. We thought that we would buy lunch but no food to be seen. Well, there were some food, but wasn't very appealing to the stomach. We sight saw some more and moved onto the next site.

 Pictures of our first site.

 
Last photo as we were leaving this place. It was nice, but huge. We didn't really want to walk any more. Just buildings, vineyards, empty rooms with designs....I'm no history major.

Just in case you forgot where I was. hahhaaa.

Next site. So pretty, but so much the same as the last place. Just with a different story. 

 

There were so many tourists that it was hard to get a photo. This photo is nice....all using small pieces of tile. What a beautiful mosaic.

Alright, so if I were to live in the olden days, I would probably be in this room....well, it was suppose to be a room. It doesn't have a roof anymore. hahaha. The kitchen of this palace. I don't remember what, but another historical place to visit. At least I can say that I was there.... hehehe

So here is an example of a place that was closed, but had a great picture....at that point in time, a burger would be so great. My stomach was aching for some food. Where is the cheap pizza stand around there????
 Ahh, here is the pizza I was talking about. YUM. More pizza back at the hostel....and as we party it up with Giovanni.

Giovanni partying it up with Tanya. What a great memory that was. NAPLES. A great place to visit if you are into history. So rich in HISTORY!

I promise to continue more journey, but there are so many other things to blog...or other things to do as i prepare for more interviews and plan my teaching. So, I'll try my best. This weekend, Jan and I are heading back to his parents place. We try to go back as much as we can as Jan misses his family and that his family misses him. hahaha. But he has things to do back at home so we are going there for the weekend. Perhaps to really immerse myself in the German culture...which isn't very different to Canadian culture.....just different language, different lifestyle, different eating habits....I guess it's different. Perhaps I feel like it's the same as Chinese culture is so different and growing up Canadian, you appreciate all that there is and really look at the Chinese culture of what can be changed. hahaa.

Alrighty, over and out. More cooking photos to come. hehehe.

INTERVIEW DAY

I had 2 interviews today! 

What a day. It was exciting but also nerve racking!!! WOW!
I didn't realize how looking for a job can be quite a challenge when you are in another country. But especially when the area you are looking for is not your forte.
The first location I went to did not feel very right. I made 2 mistakes on the application and it sucked. Am I even right to teach English??? Yikes. They were welcoming but not a happy welcome, they didn't seem exciting about being there....they were just a company who is very business oriented. I don't know if I can teach Business English.
Jan and I strolled around Stuttgart to kill some time before my next interview and teaching.
My next interview was great. I had plan this teaching for a week now as the company called to make an appointment with me. The 1st company didn't. They just sent an email. Which is how different companies be when they hire. Just like back at home.
If the company does not fit your values or the interview doesn't go right, then it might not be the best company to work for. So for the 1st company, the interview didn't feel right. It wasn't comfortable at all. The topics discussed was different. Not the same.
The 2nd interview was perfect. I had a 45 min lesson planned for it so I was ready. A bit nervous since my 1st interview didn't go that well. I had the lesson then the interview. The lesson went well. It was perfect.
After the interview, I was getting all set up!!!! TO WORK ON MONDAY!!! WHOOHOOO. I got my first assignment and I hope to get more. What is next in store for me!!! :)