Cooking, cars, wild boars and other randomness

I call these pictures: "Bored, lazy, drunk and weird in Budapest." I was on vacation. We didn't go out and see mummified arms and communist memorabilia every damn day. Some days we lounged around John's Soviet dorm and got drunk in the afternoon off a strange liquor that John bought from an old woman on the side of the road in Croatia. It had a live plant in the bottle and the woman told John it was "Good for your heart." Wanting our hearts to be strong, we took a little nip or two every now and then. It caused us to come up with some brilliant ideas, like making boar meat sausage and balancing things on other things. Observe.

John's Soviet apartment

View from his window of other Soviet apartments

Soviet television

Croatian "heart" booze

Man and plant liquor

Man lounging in front of balanced things

Things you find in a Soviet apartment

Sausage making materials

Massive market in downtown Budapest

I call this game "Pig jigsaw puzzle" The pieces are all there. See if you can put porky back together again

Wild game was in the basement

Esteemed shop where we bought the boar thigh

Sausage tools part 2

Fastening sausage grinder to counter

Grinder

Can't waste the boar blood

Thigh of the mighty pig

Nice and tender

Into the grinder

Oh, the humanity

Side dishes

Grey goodness

Art

John is actually a really good cook and he treated me to a few Hungarian specialties. These pictures show us making Chicken Paprikash Chirka. I ate it for three days and nights and on the fourth day I rested, fully sated.

Some ingredients

The chicken goes on top of pasta, which John also made from scratch

Paprika!

A Budapest street at night

Communist cars