... belatedly! Got back from Budapest on Saturday night and I walked so much in that city that I ended up slightly crippled.. must have bruised or sprained my right foot because by Saturday morning I could barely walk at all.
view of Buda Castle from the Chain Bridge
Turned out to be a hidden blessing that we had so much work to do this week-- I actually didn't even leave the house again until today when we went to the Sigmund Freud museum! Glad to be feeling almost 100% better now, as tomorrow we're climbing to the top of the Karlskirche , and this weekend we have a group trip to Krakow and Auschwitz.
On Sunday we made a wonderful Easter dinner: steamed asparagus, garlic and rosemary mashed potatoes, leek and potato casserole, marinated chicken, and baked apple pie :)
I myself only made the asparagus and garlic and rosemary potatoes, but for the chicken we used a marinade that was about half apricot jam and half regular mustard. absolutely delicious! I don't eat chicken often but this was a worthy exception.
i've never actually steamed asparagus before but it was so easy to do that now i'm pretty much hooked. cooking in our kitchen has me making a mental list of kitchen items i want to shop for when i go back home.. a garlic press, a steamer, a juicer... the garlic and rosemary mashed potatoes are pretty self explanatory, i just eyeballed the different ingredients and mixed them all together after boiling the potatoes and sauteeing the garlic. i also discovered that if it gets a bit dry, you can revive leftovers with a couple teaspoons of canola oil before you reheat it in the microwave.
i'll try to post again soon!
