The Rose of Provence (9 page)

(Source: Monika Halmos –Taste of Rose
www.halmosmonika.hu
)

Rose jam

Ingredients
: 50 dkg rose petals, 50
dkg sugar, and juice of 2 lemons

Wash the petals and cut off the yellowish-white bottom of
each petal. Bring 3 dl of water to a boil, put the rose petals in
and continue to boil for 5 more minutes. Then, add sugar and the
lemon juice and stir over low heat for 25-30 minutes until the
mixture thickens. Remove from the heat, while the jam is still hot,
pour into small, sterile jars, and seal. If we have rose liquor at
hand, pour 1 tablespoon of it into every jar! Let the jam cool in
dry steam; store in the refrigerator after opening.

We can also prepare jam if we make apple sauce of fallen,
summer apple and add the rose petals to this puree. Then, we will
get a delicious, fruity-spicy jam, in which the flavor of the rose
dominates.

(Source: Monika Halmos –Taste of Rose
www.halmosmonika.hu
)

Gourmet Rose Cream Soup

Ingredients
: 2 dkg butter, 1 medium
onion, 4 tablespoons flour, 6 dl broth, 2 dl heavy cream, 1
teaspoon curry, 6 tablespoons honey, a handful of fresh rose
petals, a small chili pepper, 2 tablespoons rose liquor, 20 dkg
fresh or frozen shrimp, a few sprigs of rosemary, butter,
salt

Melt the butter in a large soup pot, add the onion and
caramelize. Add flour and stir until light yellow, then pour in the
broth. Add the heavy cream, rose petals and season with curry, half
of the chili pepper and honey to taste. Simmer for a few minutes,
then use the hand blender to blend the mixture. Season with rose
liquor. Add salt if necessary.

Caramelize the shrimp in some butter, add the rest of the
chili pepper, rosemary, salt, and fry it on high temperature until
fragrant. If it is done, roll on a teaspoon of honey again and
serve with the hot soup.

We can make this soup of dried rose petals as well, and we
can fry the shrimp pierced on bamboo sticks, so it is going to be a
nice decoration for the soup!

(Source: Monika Halmos –Taste of Rose
www.halmosmonika.hu
)

Cold Rose Punch

Ingredients
(for 8 people): 3
handfuls of rose petals, 1,5 dl Cognac, 5 dl semi-sweet white wine,
1 lemon, 20 dkg sugar, 20 dkg strawberry, 1 bottle ‘demi-doux’
champagne

Put two handfuls of rose petals into a punch bowl. Add sugar,
lemon slices, Cognac and the white wine. Cover and marinate the
mixture in a cool place for an hour. Filter the mixture right
before serving. Add the washed and sliced strawberries, pour in the
champagne and serve the punch with the remaining rose petals
floating on the surface.

If the strawberry season has already passed, other succulent
fruits can also enjoy the rosy bubble bath: it is worth trying with
peach and cantaloupe as well!

(Source: Monika Halmos –Taste of Rose
www.halmosmonika.hu
)

Appendix 3 –
Book
recommendation

The Golden Panthers
– fantasy
adventure novel

If you are interested in how the story of Amrita and Morgan
continues nowadays, read the adventure novel, The Golden
Panthers!

At the end of 2012, a new era has begun: the dawn of the
Golden Age has arisen. However, by making use of the first, still
uncertain steps of the nascent world, the Dark Forces try to regain
their dominion.

So the upholders of Light cannot be idle either. Amrita, the
beautiful helping witch is entrusted with an important mission: she
must find the twins, who were separated and went missing thirty
years earlier. They have to break the ever-growing power of the
Prince of Darkness with the help of a mysterious and ancient relic.
The twins are selected, since they have unusual positive energy,
and they can dedicate their talent to the service of mankind with
the help of a ritual, performed under a rare planetary alignment.
First, in order to achieve their aim, together with Amrita, they
have to contend with the Minions of Darkness: the desperate demons,
harmful witches and vampires. Furthermore, they also have to decode
the mysterious message of the spirit world.

If it had not been for Kristof, a knowledgeable Hungarian
shaman, their mission would be a complete failure. Above all,
Amrita has to fight against enemy creatures and constantly contend
with her contradictory, unfulfilled love for Morgan, the thousands
of years old charismatic vampire. And when she meets an attractive,
mortal man, at first, she is unable to decide whether a new emotion
can override the age-old, platonic bond.

The small team is racing against time, searching for the
answers to several questions: why is it important where and when
the twins were born? What is the correlation between the
picturesque Pilis Mountains, nestled in the middle of Europe, and
the constellation Orion? What happened to the people of the sunken
empires Mu and Atais, lost in the Pacific Ocean thousands of years
ago? What is the message of the ancient stone tablets of Burma?
Where is the Desert of Sonorous, and what secret does it hide? Who
are the ‘forbidden bloods’? And, of course, whom will Amrita
choose?

While the protagonists have countless adventures by following
the clues and traveling half way around the world – including the
east coast of the United States, Earl Dracula’s former home, the
depth of the snowy, rugged mountains of Transylvania, and the
remote exotic places of Burma and China – you will discover the
answers.

This fast-paced novel blends fantasy and reality, the human
world and the supernatural, adventure and romance, the past and the
future. The characters, while walking through existing places,
discover mysteries supported by history and current
research.

Buy the ebook on Smashwords
:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/374141

Tales of Oscar
– funny cat
stories

The ‘Tales of Oscar’ is about the adventures of a baby
tomcat, left alone in a park. He finds a kind girl who becomes his
master. He gradually discovers the world of humans, and shines his
colorful personality in different situations, but he often gets
into trouble. When the family expands with new members, and a
pretty lady cat turns up in his life, he has to face other
complications as well. Fortunately, however, Oscar can always
handle the challenges with proper humor and wisdom.

Buy the book on Smashwords
:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/384850

In preparation

The Butcher of El Camino
–
mysterious crime story

A new mystery crime story takes place on „El Camino”, the
ancient and mystic pilgrimage route in Northern Spain.

Audrey Garcia, the pretty, young lawyer from Denver, after
the death of her mother, decides to travel to Europe and walk the
five-hundred-mile pilgrimage route, the El Camino. Meanwhile, the
successful and wealthy film producer, William Benton has to face an
incurable disease. He decides to find his former love and their
common child before he leaves this world. He entrusts a private
detective, Robert O’Connor with the investigation, who soon reveals
that Benton’s daughter is just plodding miles in Spain. They also
learns that a serial killer is going on the rampage on the Camino,
who has left beheaded corpses along the path. William immediately
sends the investigator for his daughter, who has to throw all of
his abilities into the mix to find the clues to locate
her.

Audrey, at a slower pace, but with several days of advantage,
travels along the path, on which she sometimes walks alone,
sometimes with other companions: Brad, the grim and mysterious
American, Helga, the easygoing German student, Jean-Pierre, the
French dentist, Carmen, the woman from Madrid, struggling with a
mid-life crisis, and the cheerful English archeologist, James.
Along the trail, many of them will be part of a strange experience:
in time, and sometimes in space also, they find themselves suddenly
elsewhere.

Audrey feels affection for the appealing James first, but
after a tall, dark-haired, handsome stranger appears in her dream,
she can only think about this man. When Robert catches up with her
at last, flabbergasted Audrey realizes that the man, she saw in her
dream, really exists. At the request of his employer, the
investigator does not reveal himself, but keeps his eye on Audrey
to protect her from the lurking dangers. The earthly threats,
however, are dwarfed by what they face when they arrive to the
medieval Camino through a dimensional gate…