Krumpli Galuska (Potato Dumplings)

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This was one of my favorite foods as I was growing up. In my family, it was one of the few traditional Hungarian foods that we ate on a regular basis. It’s still one of Jeff’s favorites, as well as mine, and he makes it more than any of us.

I’ve never been able to find this in Hungarian cookbooks, but when Jared went to Hungary, he figured out that the recipe was North Hungarian or Slovakian. This made sense as the town that my family originated in, Batyan, is now a few miles across the northern border of Hungary, in Slovakia. Wherever it’s from, we love it.  Here is my mother’s original recipe.

We like this so much that we eat it as a main dish. We use it as a side on holidays.

Uncle Mark’s Famous Popcorn

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My nephew John likes my popcorn and has requested the recipe. So here it is.

When I was growing up, popcorn was our most favorite evening snack. My mother popped it in a big Wearever aluminum pan on our gas stove. Years later, when Natalie and I were newly married, we taught high-school religious education in our parish, St. Hubert’s. The kids met with us in our home every week and a tradition soon developed that we end the evening with popcorn. And the tradition of my youth continued; we popped it in a large pan, in shortening, on the stove.

Now shortening has gotten a bad rap lately because it is a hydrogenated fat with lots of trans fats. So I modified the recipe to use heart-healthy olive oil.