Hungarian Chicken and Mom Forester's Pudding Cake

Typical Tuesday night.    Just the 5 of us.   Philip came home with an assignment to practice and observe weights and measurements.  Figured the best practice for measurements was for him to make dessert!!   Dessert recipe first:

Mom Forester's Pudding Cake
(before you ask, I have no idea who Mom Forester is.   Anyway, looked like a chocolate rich, kid friendly dessert).
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup self rising flour (as the recipes call for it so often, I finally bought some)
2 tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup milk
3 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp vanilla

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup cocoa

1 3/4 cup water

Stir 3/4 cup sugar, flour and 2 tbsp cocoa together.  Stir in milk, melted butter and vanilla.  Spread in 9X9 pan (I greased it).   In separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup sugar, brown sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa together.  Sprinkle mixture over the batter.    Carefully pour the water on top.  Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.  Cake is done when it springs back when touched.
Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Practicing measurements and capacity.   Delicious
homework assignment!

Very rich and oozing warm fudge.  Yum!

Hungarian Chicken
2 tbsp butter
1 cut up chicken (I just used thighs and drumsticks)
2 medium onions, sliced (I just used one)
4 oz fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 tsp salt
paprika
In a skillet, melt butter.  Add chicken and sprinkle very liberally with paprika.  Turn over and brown on the side.  Sprinkle with more paprika.   After 15 minutes on each side, remove chicken.  Drain fat, reserving 2 tbsp.   In this reserved fat, saute onion and mushrooms until tender.  Add chicken back in.  Pour cream over chicken and baste once.  Add salt and more paprika to make make sauce pale orange.  Cover skillet with foil and simmer until meat is tender, 1/2 to 1 hour.  Serve over egg noodles.

Preparing chicken with paprika.  Didn't use a fancy paprika
as I assume Oma wouldn't have due to lack of interesting
ingredients in the north. 

Finished product.  A good, square meal. 

The Verdict
Definitely a success.  The chicken was not the most exciting recipe in the world, but it was very tasty.   All of the kids enjoyed the chicken.   Suggested serving was with noodles, but I used mashed potatoes.  Served with a side of salad and broccoli.   I would make this again.  

Dessert - very rich.  The kids liked it.  It was very oozy with hot fudge.   Served with rolo ice cream (had no vanilla).  Vanilla  would have been better.  Mike complained endlessly about how messy the kids hands and faces got.  Oh well.