Day 55 Friday 15 July 2016

A rude awakening around 2am this morning with a phone call & they hung up before I could answer – an Australian mobile number I don’t recognise & no message left. More rain during the night & a sleep-in this morning until 7am when the church bells woke us (they ring every day, on the hour after 7am & sometimes more). This morning Tereza & Antal made a Hungarian delicacy. We picked plenty of plums yesterday & Antal reminisced about the yummy gomboc (dumplings) his mum used to make. I told him I know how to make them but I won’t promise that they will be as good as his mum’s. The gomboc is made from mashed boiled potatoes plus an egg & some wheat flour. When the dough is finished a plum is rolled inside a ball of dough then the Gomboc are cooked in plenty of water. When they are cooked they are rolled in bread crumbs that has been lightly browned in butter then finished off with a dusting of sugar. (Ron watched us in amazement, he obviously knows how to make them now so he will be able to do it at home). It took all morning for Tereza & Antal to make the 40 Gomboc while Katica went to the hospital for treatment on her arm. Katica can’t make them with one hand plus she is too frail.

Lunch was a delicious treat of fresh Gomboc, they are sweet, tasty & filling. I manage 5, while Antal had 7 & Tereza 3, Katica had 5 because she was starving, they were very filling. Katica said that they were delicious but grumbled at Antal because he should have cooked us a decent lunch instead of desert & that he shouldn’t have made me work so hard – it wasn’t hard work just time consuming. Here, they have their main meal in the middle of the day. Tereza is really enjoying her time here, she is laughing & smiling & joking all the time, she is beaming with happiness. Antal can just roll the jokes out after one another – when translated they are usually not so funny. They think that we should open a clinic because we brought them good vibes & energy, they don’t feel the pain so much. I think it is only because they have to pull themselves together & have to look after us. After lunch it was siesta time to digest the Gomboc (to make sure they turn into body fat) while more rain came down.

We were woken in the afternoon by thunder & lightening as another storm came through with more rain, so no walk to Evike’s house this afternoon. Dinner was a combination of Hungarian sausage & smoked pork with fresh tomato followed by more Gomboc – for desert this time. I was very happy that I could manage 3, but Antal had only Gomboc & he managed another 7. I am worried about Antal because he is a diabetic but he assured me that he takes his tablets & this could only do him good – hope so. More rain during dinner & still raining, Antal is very happy as it is very good for the farms & his crops. Watched a good Steven Segal movie in Hungarian. Another great day. Tomorrow we will have an early morning because we plan to drive to cousin Bela & Gyorgy so that we can all spend time with them. Bela is Katica’s cousin as well & Antal went to Uni with him – good opportunity for them to see each other. We will try to send our blogs, but when we return to Kikinda we won’t have internet again.