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Cherries, Toads and Fireflies

pancakesThe weather was not so cooperative this weekend at the house, but we still managed to have a couple nice campfires and grill a bit. Shopping at Auchan in Miskolc on the way I became very frustrated. They had no blueberries, cherries or bananas for the pancakes, nor did they have any fresh parsley, or any other herb for that matter, for the solyanka. But hurrah, waking up Saturday morning I discovered there were a bunch of fine cherries on my tree and parsley in my garden. The cherry pancakes were right up there with the best ever blueberry ones a couple weekends ago. The solyanka (Jeroen's recipe) came out ok with my homemade kovaszos uborka. For some reason we had tons of small toads hopping around the garden all night, and even had a visit from a lone firefly.