Simple recipes for gluten-free cakes, mains and salads that your family will absolutely love.
Foie gras is a French delicacy prepared from duck or goose liver. Unlike regular duck and goose livers, foie gras not only has a different colour, but is also creamier and slightly more intense in flavour. I love French cuisine and whenever I have the opportunity to taste foie gras in a restaurant, I go…
Mushrooms and green beans are both perfect as the main ingredient of many dishes. They are great in sauces, cooked, in soups or in salads. You can eat them all year round, because mushrooms are available fresh all the time, and beans, if not fresh, can be easily bought frozen. This time I served mushrooms…
Sauerkraut with mushrooms is a must-have dish on the Christmas table in my home. My mother makes this cabbage every Christmas. Usually, she makes a bigger quantity of it, so that we can enjoy its taste for a few days. To prepare sauerkraut with mushrooms, you will need sauerkraut, dried forest mushrooms, a little onion…
Duck breasts can be served in many ways – this salad recipe below is one way. I combined duck breast with iceberg lettuce, pear and pomegranate on the serving plate. I seasoned the salad with a dressing based on pomegranate juice, honey and olive oil. I make this salad, as well as many other salads…
To my great surprise I recently managed to buy pink Atlantic matjes in oil brine in a nearby store. The fillets turned out to be of very good quality, the herring was tasty and the meat had a firm, almost perfect structure. I prepared a simple salad with it, to which I also added pickled…
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…
Brussels sprouts, or mini cabbage, is a biennial vegetable that has been grown in Europe since the 16th century. Brussels sprouts are a great source of vitamins. It contains more vitamin C than an orange and has very few calories. I don’t remember too many dishes with Brussels sprouts from my childhood. My mother did…
This year, I will miss some of the activities that I would normally perform with my family over the holiday season. It is almost an annual tradition for us to visit Advent markets. Hot wine reigns supreme in these supermarkets, but you can also find other interesting drinks, such as liqueurs. One of such liqueurs…
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…