I bought a ticket to go to Bangkok in three weeks from Milan for 174 euros (US$229) one way on Blu Express. Major coup. For the sake of my expertise in finding cheap flights, I wish I could say I … Continue reading
Category Archives: Hungary
This is the first entry for the new home of my blog which I have moved from kentfoster.com/blog to TheDromomaniac.com. Dromomania means “an uncontrollable impulse to wander or travel”. Seems more fitting. My housesitting is finished. I can no longer … Continue reading
You wouldn’t believe the hell it is to get my website going. There are endless little bugs and incompatibility issues and everything takes forever to accomplish. Frustrating doesn’t begin to describe it. It is maddening. At this point I don’t … Continue reading
I have an Italian friend named Werner (no, really!) and he claims you need to put some carrot and a dash of sugar in your pasta sauce. I tried that for a second time, but it doesn’t cook in so … Continue reading
…while I try and figure out how to make the design of my website. It is so frustrating you don’t want me to blog anyway, trust me. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, but I want it to look … Continue reading
It’s a legitimate question. The only things I do all day are trying to cook new things (veal chunks with pasta?) and work on my website. This weekend I turned down some nice offers to visit friends out of town, … Continue reading
Over the last two nights I have prepared duck covered in a sour cherry sauce and mangalica pork with a plum sauce. I have never in my life cooked duck or made a fruit sauce, but since I have access … Continue reading
Just as when I stayed at Peter’s office there was a connection to a famous actress, I just found out that I am housesitting for the son of a Hungarian music legend, a member of the band, Kalaka. I am … Continue reading
Got some good stuff to experiment with this weekend. I am going to try and cook duck again; this time I have a breast and some direction. I have two slices of mangalica pork, ewe cheese, plums, and cat food. … Continue reading
When the peaches and plums are 168 forint to the kilo (US 35 cents a pound) I’m buying. I also bought sour cherries, but they, like these, were overripe so I quickly sorted the best ones and froze them. Now … Continue reading
