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Adventures in India: Paneer Kofta (The Lunchbox)

Adventures in India: Paneer Kofta (The Lunchbox)

“Sometimes the wrong train will get you to the right station.”   It’s been a long time since I saw a film that so gently depicts the building of a relationship between two people as The Lunchbox. In this Indian movie food is the only point of contact between two strangers, and thanks to the protagonists’ impeccable acting, and to all the tiny loveable elements that are delicately hidden in the…

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Segítsüti Reloaded 2017

(Current post is a unique one related to the event of a Hungarian charity organization called Segítsüti. If you wish to join the event, please, drop me a message. Thanks!) Eltelt egy év a legutóbbi Segítsütis felajánlásom óta, és kérdés nem fért hozzá, hogy idén is csatlakozom az adakozó kedvű gasztrobloggerek csapatához. Annak, aki nem ismerné a Segítsüti tevékenységét, dióhéjban a következőt…

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Blog Birthday Celebration Pie ( The Waitress)

Blog Birthday Celebration Pie ( The Waitress)

It’s been roughly a year that I started this blog. It made me think in a creative way, brought me lots of joy, and thankfully I could share these pleasures with my family and many of my friends. I recently watched the movie The Waitress, which is literally speaks in pie terms. It inspired me to celebrate my baby blog’s first birthday with baking a sweet and creamy pie with pecan and banana,…

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Rosey Wedding Cake (Like Water for Chocolate) #spongecake #lovebaking #whitefrosting #makeitfromthescreen 

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Rosey Wedding Cake (Like Water for Chocolate)

Rosey Wedding Cake (Like Water for Chocolate)

If you’re not familiar with the movie Like Water for Chocolate, you may expect heavenly cakes, cheerful people, and joyous moments of celebration in this blog post. But be careful, the title may delude you. I like this film because it depicts the dark side of passionate love in one of the most sensual ways, possible to emerge on screen. The Mexican movie operates within the frames of magic…

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Bridget's Blue(?) Soup (Bridget Jones's Diary)

Bridget’s Blue(?) Soup (Bridget Jones’s Diary)

Day 1 I will make a blue dish. Without any artificial colouring. Having a look at Bridget’s soup, Mark Darcy said “ blue is good. If you ask me, there isn’t enough blue food…” And he was so damn right. So it’s my mission now to find a way to cook something blue and something soup. Day 4 Plum, blueberries, blue potato. These are my alternatives. All of them are a lie. All of them… Day 10 I tried……

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The Perfect Omelette (The Hundred-Foot Journey)

The Perfect Omelette (The Hundred-Foot Journey)

“Food is memories.” /Hassan/ I like watching movies about the Indian way of cooking because they have a very special approach to cuisine. They do not only taste, but they smell, feel and hear the ingredients; they don’t cook with utensils but with and undistinguishable passion inherited through generations. There is no such thing as perfectionism in their cuisine, but their dishes taste perfect…

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Ginger & Pear Tarte Tatin (City of Angels)

Ginger & Pear Tarte Tatin (City of Angels)

It’s strange to write about and recommend a movie that I do not think is a masterpiece. So I write some about a film, instead,  that is I think is a masterpiece and a few about its poor remake that contains one engaging scene: the description of the taste of a pear. But no rush to the end. Although I can’t evaporate from my mind the helplessly romantic picture of  Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan…

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Lavender-Raspberry Crème Brûlée (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)

Lavender-Raspberry Crème Brûlée (Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain)

I think it was the music that I loved first. I remember myself listening to the Amélie soundtrack on my way to school every single morning. (I had this strange obsession with certain albums and artists that I could listen to their music every single day, for weeks, without getting bored with it. Today this period can last only for a couple of days. I’m ageing…) Yann Tiersen is a genius. My heart…

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Cosmopolitan New York Cheescake (Sex and the City)

Cosmopolitan New York Cheescake (Sex and the City)

I must confess, I am a huge fan of Sex and the City and I don’t know the particular reason for that. In most cases I find Carrie Bradshow tiring, sometimes her contemplations are a bit empty and her problems seem so far away from me. But the other characters are much more interesting. My personal favourite is Samantha and not because of her relationships with men but with her relationship with…

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Boeuf Bourguignon (Julie & Julia)

Boeuf Bourguignon (Julie & Julia)

I decided not to lie about anything in this blog. If something is not delicious, I will tell you. If I mess up the food, you’ll know about it. To be honest, I have just thrown out the remains of boeuf bourguignon, not that it was that bad. On the contrary, it came out quite delicious, the meat was soft as butter with an indistinguishable taste. However, I must admit I’m not really into beef stew…

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Strawberry Bavarian Crème (Julie&Julia)

So here we are. I am making a dish from Julie and Julia, the movie that every food blogger appraises and that encourages film-lovers to make a journey to the hidden corners of the kitchen. I heavily resisted to fall in line and I remained strong for months. But the truth is, there is something in this film, and there is something in Julia Child. As a food blogger myself (wow, this is the…