Fast and easy-to-make dishes to eat during midday. They will give you energy to go through the day.
White pizza or pizza Bianca, just like pizza with tomato sauce, is very popular in my house. I make it as often as traditional pizza with tomato sauce. The dough for white pizza is identical to the one for pizza with sauce, the difference between these two pizzas is in the sauce. In white pizzas,…
I served toast with tomatoes and feta for today’s lunch. I still managed to collect a few cocktail tomatoes from my vegetable garden and I suspect that I will end this year’s tomato season with them. I still see a few more tomatoes on the plants, but I’m not sure if they will be good…
Oven-baked salmon with a nut crust made with pecans, breadcrumbs and butter is a recipe for a simple and easy-to-prepare pescetarian dish. You can make this oven-baked salmon in less than 30 minutes, so it’s a perfect idea for a quick dinner. I like making this dish especially on working days, because then the time…
Fried mozzarella coated in breadcrumbs is a quick-to-prepare dish that is perfect served as a snack. This snack can be served for supper, during the day or at parties. Preparing fried mozzarella is easy and very quick. After cutting, the cheese should be covered with tomato paste seasoned with oregano and salt. Then, each piece…
Gnocchi are Italian flour, potato and egg dumplings. The gnocchi dough is almost identical to the dough for Polish dumplings. The difference between gnocchi and Polish potato dumplings lies in the shape of the dumplings, because Polish dumplings are larger and have a diamond or rectangular shape. Unlike dumplings, gnocchi are smaller and have a…
A recipe for vegetable pakora, this time prepared from zucchini, red onion, spices and herbs. Pakora are crispy mini fritters originating from Indian cuisine. These fritters are made from vegetables, most often onions, potatoes or zucchini, but other vegetables such as eggplant, cabbage, peppers and many others can also be used to prepare them. The…
Rogan josh is an Indian lamb curry made with an aromatic tomato-based sauce. This dish is cooked slowly over a low heat, which allows all the ingredients and spices to mix thoroughly. During such cooking, the meat not only becomes soft and tender, but also acquires a fantastic taste. This Indian dish is served with…
Kohlrabi stuffed with meat is a delicious dish that I recently prepared for dinner. I go inspired to make this dish by my mother-in-law, who made it some time ago for a family dinner. The basis of this dish are hollow kohlrabi, stuffed with minced pork and kaiser rolls filling, then cooked until soft in…
Austrian potato salad (Erdäpfelsalat) is a combination of potato slices with onion and mustard sauce made on broth and vinegar. This simple salad is a fantastic addition to pork chops and mince meat. It can be served both hot and cold, and it tastes equally good either way. I start preparing the salad by peeling…
I recently made quite a large jar of fermented cucumbers, too many to eat them all on a sandwich. So I had to use them also in some dish and it fell on the salad. A salad with fermented cucumbers turned out to be the right choice, because I could not only serve it for…
Crispy potato fritters with ham is a simple dish that you can prepare in 20 minutes. Its main ingredient is potatoes, which I combined with chicken ham and chives. I seasoned the mixture for the fritters with salt and pepper and added eggs and a little flour to it. These fritters taste delicious served for…
This recipe is a confirmation that you can make tempura not only with vegetables or seafood, but also with slightly more sophisticated products, such as elderflower. Once a year there is a few-week long period during which elderberry blooms and its flowers are perfect for tempura. There is still time to make this dish this…