Last weekend I cooked Stuffed paprika with tomato sauce. It is a typical late-summer dish when the ingredients (paprika, tomato, celeriac root) are fresh and tasteful.
When I prepared this dish, a lot of childhood memories came back.
I remember when my classmate and I were eating this in the canteen in the elementary school. We liked the tomato sauce because it was sweet (sometimes even too sweet) and it went well with meatballs and boiled potatoes, but we never ate the paprika. (The meatball was stuffed in the Hungarian sweet yellow paprika.) At the age of 8 or 10 I didn’t understand why we needed paprika. I thought it wasn’t necessary. Nowadays I know, the solution is the complex flavor, which is perfect with sweet yellow paprika.
All those years I didn’t know why the paprika was called ‘tv paprika’. I tried to find out what kind of relationship could be between television and pepper :-)). I think I was a too modern girl who could think about technical equipment only. Then I learned ‘tv’ was acronym, ‘Tölteni Való’ in Hungarian, which means you can stuff this pepper.
Well, those memories were in my mind while I was cooking this great meal. I really felt nostalgic. The result was a delicious dish and a well-fed family.
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