Fast and easy-to-make dishes to eat during midday. They will give you energy to go through the day.
Kimchi is a vegetable dish that is extremely popular in Korean cuisine. Selected vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage and, most often, turnips, are seasoned with chili, ginger, and garlic, then set aside to ferment. In fact, you can also add other vegetables to kimchi, such as carrots, kohlrabi, cucumbers or radishes. It all depends on…
Pak choi, otherwise known as Chinese cabbage, is a vegetable originating from Asia. This cabbage has a white tuber, green leaves and a slightly peppery flavour. As a vegetable, it is perfect as an ingredient in soups, an addition to pasta and stir fry. The extras that go well with pak choi and enrich its…
Steak and kidney pie is a very popular and traditional English dish. This dish is a combination of fried pieces of beef and kidneys with onion and spices such as Worcestershire sauce, pepper and salt. The stewed meat is baked under a layer of puff pastry and served with boiled or grilled vegetables and potatoes….
Burrata is an Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. It is characterised by a soft center and a solid outer layer. Burrata cheese can be served with olive oil, bread, pasta or as an ingredient on pizza or in salad. The following burrata recipe is a combination of cheese with cocktail tomatoes and tamarillo…
Salmon with spinach, baked in puff pastry, is a dish that my guests are always enjoying. I tasted this dish for the first time in a restaurant and I liked it so much that since then I have been making it at home. It is not a very complicated dish and you don’t have to…
Meat rolls are one to use minced meat. In these meat rolls, I combined minced pork with pork loin and green olives. I baked everything in the oven and served it with groats and creamy kohlrabi. I started preparing the rolls by breaking the pork loin with a meat pestle, seasoning the minced meat, then…
Baked beans is a dish that probably needs no introduction. The basic ingredient of this dish are beans, which are combined with tomato sauce, sausage, bacon, onion, seasoned with garlic and marjoram. This dish can be made all year round, as the ingredients used in it are generally available. During the season of tomatoes, it…
Chicken in a pancake batter is the perfect way to use the leftover meat that is often left in the broth or after roasting the chicken. It happens quite often to me personally, because I cook only for myself and my husband and we are not always able to eat everything at once 🙂 I…
Green curry is a dish originated from Thai cuisine. Its basis is green curry paste and coconut milk, which can be combined with poultry, fish, seafood or any other meat. Green curry paste is made from green chilis, onion, lemongrass, coriander, shrimp paste and galangal spice. When it comes to serving, green curry can be…
I have rediscovered goulash soup since I live in Hungary. Hungarian goulash soup is made with beef, root vegetables and paprika. It is the ground paprika that gives the goulash soup a beautiful, slightly red colour, and of course the more paprika, the more intense the colour. The goulash soup recipe below is based on…
Tart is a combination of shortcrust pastry with a filling that can be both savoury and sweet. After preparation, the pastry is first pre-baked for a few minutes in an oven, then it is filled with the chosen filling. Usually, the whole thing ends up in the oven again, but there are also tarts that…
Kartacz is a dish similar to dumplings, prepared from a mixture of raw and boiled potatoes, that is combined with egg and potato flour. Its filling can consist of meat, cheese or mushroom. Normally, they are served drizzled with fried bacon or onion. For some reason, my mother always made kartacz filled with quark cheese…