Quick and tasty recipes for making dinner the best experience of any day. You will find here recipes with chicken, fish, seafood, pasta and many others.
I usually make roasted duck with oranges or apples, because I like the taste of meat emphasized by fruits. In addition to fruits, I often use herbs and other spices to season the duck. I prepare roasted duck mainly for special occasions and for Christmas, I make it less often on an average day. What…
Recently, while shopping on an international food shelf, I came across some French mustard with tarragon. I like tarragon and I mainly use it to flavour meat soups or stews, but I had never eaten it in mustard before, so I bought a jar. When I got home, I started wondering what I could use…
Pierogi is a dish that needs no introduction. I will only mention that pierogi dumplings are made from flour and water, then filled with a sweet or savoury filling. You can use a variety of products as fillings – fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products all work great in these dumplings. Today, I want to…
Are you looking for a tested recipe for sauerkraut with beans? If so, then you must try this recipe for cooked sauerkraut with beans. It is one of the obligatory dishes on Christmas Eve tables in most Polish households. Some people make this type of sauerkraut also with forest mushrooms instead of beans. You can…
You can make these beef burgers very easily at home. To prepare beef burgers, you need good quality ground beef, a minimal amount of spices, Kaiser rolls and eggs. You can serve the burgers with any addition of your choice. I focused on basic ingredients such as lettuce, tomato and pickled cucumber. The burgers taste…
Pan-fried trout with almonds can be prepared from a whole fish or fillets. This dish will be perfect to serve on the Christmas Eve table. To prepare fried trout, apart from the fish, you will need some clarified butter, lemon, almond flakes and parsley. Despite the fact that the fish is fried in whole, it…
Seafood includes crustaceans such as: lobsters, shrimps, crabs and molluscs such as scallops, oysters, cuttlefish and octopus. In almost every store you can buy mixes that contain a selection of different seafood. I really like this type of ready-made mixes, because they are perfect for pasta, risotto and pizza. About two weeks ago, I bought…
Gnocchi is an Italian pasta that can be prepared from potatoes, cheese, semolina, wheat flour, corn flour or eggs. Often, gnocchi also has an addition of herbs or vegetables. Gnocchi is usually served with a sauce or drizzled with melted butter. I have to tell you that gnocchi made from flour and ricotta cheese is…
Roasted whole chicken is my favourite Sunday lunch meal. I usually rub the chicken with some sort of simple marinade and bake it, uncovered, directly on a baking tray. If I want the meat to cook a little faster, I put the chicken in a baking sleeve. An additional advantage of baking sleeves, apart from…
During Christmas, there is always some fish on the table at my home. This year I will spend Christmas in two countries with different Christmas traditions. In Poland, my parents will surely treat me with carp in warm cream sauce. You can already find the recipe for that dish on the blog. On the other…
Broccoli is a vegetable from the cabbage family, as is cauliflower. In my kitchen, I mostly use broccoli for making soups. From time to time, I also add it as an addition to various dinner dishes. When I do so, it is either boiled in water or baked in the oven. Broccoli soup made only…
This recipe for roasted pork belly is quite minimalistic. Apart from salt and pepper, I only used a little garlic and thyme to season the pork. I didn’t add too much spice because I didn’t want them to dominate the flavour of the baked pork belly. Probably for some, even such a small amount of…