Sunday

I can not describe menus and food in detail that we were able to eat but I can try to give little morsels of certain foods we were lucky enough to find.

We both love beef marrow. that stuff comes in the leg bone of cows and prepared by cooking it in beef soup. It is an appetizer and is served on toast and is to be eaten with salt. Extremely tasty.

Solet or Cholent is a very slow cooked Jewish bean dish with various types of meat in it. Being a Jewish dish pork is not part of this dish but some places serve it with pork and it does taste a lot better with it.

Duck cracklins (toportyu) is an appetizer where they serve freshly crackled duck skin pieces. It is very tasty and easily edible. We had that in a very good restaurant and it was just fantastic. My mother used to make it whenever she bought a duck for us to eat.

Fish soup doesn't come close to describing what a good Halaszle is. This dish has various types of fish in it along with vegetables and good spices. We had that in a few places and they were equally good.

I pride myself speaking and understanding English almost perfectly. But When I read the menus in the restaurants we visited and compared the Hungarian description of the food with the English translation there was no comparison. The Hungarian description of each course was mouthwatering while the translations was always a very poor effort in trying to replicate it.

We had chicken paprikash, beef paprikash, wiener schnitzel (that is breaded veal cutlet), stuffed cabbage, chicken soup filled with meat, chicken soup with liver dumplings, matzoh ball soup and many, many more good stuff.

There was never any lack of choices when we went out to eat.