Concert in the park / Koncert a parkban

A múlt szombaton a városi parkban zenéltünk a "Serve the City - Leuven" rendezvény keretén belül. Itt van egy rövidke videó arról, hogy mi is történt.

Last Saturday we got to play in the city park! It was in the frame of an event that was organized by Serve the City - Leuven. It was fun, so here is short video for you!

Egy újabb videó/ One more video

I'm playing my new electric at the church on this one :-)
Éppen az új elektromos gitáromon játszom

Videók / Videos

Some video for my fans! They are not the best but I wanted to get them out quick!
No, itt van néhány videó a rajongóknak :-) Nem lettek a legjobbak, de hát nem lehetek egyszerre a kamera és a gitár mögött is!

Me and an Italian friend, Luca, jamming with a bit of blues.
Én és egy olasz barátom, Luka, dzsemmelünk egy kis blues-alapra.

And now some classics:
Uram Tehozzád futok


és, igen, jól láttátok a basszusgitáron Kontor Angéla játszott :-)))
Kicsi a világ!


Végül, íme az Uram tehozzád futok angol verziója:
And finally here is the english version of the previous Hungarian song: In a dry and thirsty place

Egy kis középkor / Middle-ages festival

Péntek este átugrottunk egy közeli faluba, ahol közepkori fesztivált rendeztek. Itt van egy-két kép és videó.
Friday night we went to a nearby village for a Middle Ages festival. Here are some pictures and a video.

Az ember könnyen bajba került, ha nem volt elég óvatos. Mindenfelé vérszomjas vikingek koszáltak...
One got into trouble quickly if you were not careful enough. Bloodthirsty vikings were wandering around the camp...

Zene, zene, zene... / Music, music, music...

Egy csomo utazás (konferenciák, otthon, nyaralás), utan visszatertem Leuvenbe :-)
A változatosság kedvéért - kárpótlásúl, ha már rossz idő volt Horvátországban - vettem is gyorsan egy elektronyos gitárt, meg 1 erősítőt. Ime itt vannak a szépségek.

After a busy summer filled with conferences, holidays and whatnot, I'm back in Leuven. As a consolation prize for having bad weather during my Croatian holiday I quickly bought myself an nice electric guitar and a cool tube amp. Here they are:

És itt Van egy kis videó is, csak hogy meg lehessen hallgatni, hogy hogyan szól. Felvettük a basszus és a ritmusgitár alapot aztán rájátszottunk :-)

And to hear how thy sound there is a short video from Jamming with a friend. We recorded bass and rythm guitar first then had a go with solo and drums :-)

Easter and Snow - Húsvét és Hó

Last week was busy but there were some highlights. A very kind family invited about 20 of us, mostly foreigners, from the church to spend Easter Sunday with them. It was a great and relaxed afternoon with delicious food.

Az elmúlt hét elég nyüzsis volt, de azért akadtak jó dolgok benne :-) A gyüliből egy kedves, középkorú házaspár többünket meghívott magához vasárnap délutánra. Nagyon finom ebédet kaptunk és jó volt végre egy kis nyugi.















Later in the week - a bit surprisingly - I woke up one morning to a snowy landscape. God must've mixed up Easter with Christmas :-)

Valamikor úgy szerda táján pedig arra ébredtem, hogy odakint a tavasz télre váltott. Van egy sanda gyanúm, hogy Isten összekeverte a Karácsonyt Húsvéttal :-)

Gulyasleves

Last Thursday I made some delicious Gulyas soup for my friends! (ask them if you don't believe me). The reason was that two Japanese students, who spent 9 months at LMS are going back home. And they really wanted to learn how to make real Hungarian Gulyas soup. So I tried my best :-)



Here is how to make it:

Gulyas soup
Ingredients for about 4 people:

400 gr of meat cut in small cubes (beef or pork is traditional but you can use chicken if you like it better )
100gr of smoked bacon cut in small cubes (gerookte spek)
150gr of onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlik, finely chopped
200gr carrot and white carrot (pastinaken) (half-half) cut in thin slices
400gr potatoes cut in small cubes
(optional: 200gr beans)
1 tomato cut in half or into four pieces
1 sweet pepper (paprika) cut in half

spices:
marjolein
komijn (powdered but seeds are also fine)
petersilie
sweet red paprika powder
pepper
salt

and white bread

Preparation:
Fry the onions and garlic over medium flame in a deep pan with a little oil (it is going to be a soup! cca 1.5 liters)
When it turns transparent increase the flame and add the "spek" fry it a bit,
then add the meat to and fry it until it turns a white/slightly brown,
After this take it off the flame add about 4-5 teaspoon sweet red paprika powder, mix it then add a little (~0.3l) water.
(Be careful, the paprika powder can easily turn bitter if it is fried.)
You also sprinkle it with cumijn at this point.
Cook the meat until it is half cooked, then add more water (cca 0.6l).
When it starts to boil add the carrots, they need more time to cook.
This is the time to add a bit of salt, marjolein and petersilie too.
Roughly after 10 minutes add the potatoes, the tomato and the paprika too.
After a bit of cooking taste to see if the spices were enough.

About the beans, in case you'd like to add some:
- if they were dry, then you should soak them in water for a day and add them with the carrots.
- if you use canned beans, those are pre-cooked so you only want to add them at the end when the potatoes are half ready.

It is supposed to be a thick soup, eaten with white bread as a main course.

• Often people put small pasta dumplings in the soup too, but I've never made them before and you get more or less the same satisfaction if you have some nice white bread with it :-)
• The amounts are just there to give general idea, you can give and take depending on whether you prefer the meat, the carrots, the onion or the potato.
• The idea behind using a relatively large amount of onions is that as the soup is boiling, the onion slowly disintegrates, creating a thick gravy together with the paprika powder.

It was a great time, we ate all the food, we drank all the wine and enjoyed each other :-)
What more do you need?