Fast and easy-to-make dishes to eat during midday. They will give you energy to go through the day.
Tortellini are small Italian dumplings filled with meat or cheese. Their shape resembles Polish dumplings served with borscht. The dumplings are served both warm and cold. Tortellini can be served with tomato sauce, broth, grilled vegetables, deep-fried and in salads. This tortellini salad recipe is simple and does not require any sophisticated ingredients. In addition…
Pizza is a dish from Italian cuisine widely known in all countries all over the world. The basis of pizza is yeast dough covered with tomato sauce and cheese. The dough can be thick or thin, sometimes it can also have its edges stuffed with cheese. The simplest pizza you can get is the one…
Properly baked chicken legs are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Very few people are able to resist them if at all. Any type of meat, regardless of its kind, tastes best when marinated beforehand. The marinade can be sweet or spicy. It is important though, to prepare it early enough to…
This recipe is for fish baked with rosemary, tomatoes, lemon and onion. The preparation of this dish is very simple, you don’t have to work hard on it. It is important to buy fish that has already been scaled, gutted and cleaned. All that you will have to do is to wash it, dry it…
Onion bhaji is a dish that comes from Indian cuisine. Bhaji are small, deep-fried pancakes made from onion, flour and spices. In Indian cuisine, chickpea flour is used to prepare these little pancakes. The flour is combined with onions and spices such as cumin and coriander. Bhaji can be served as a snack or appetiser….
Butternut squash pâté is a vegetable pâté made from baked butternut squash, cheese and spices. Butternut squash is a large pear-shaped pumpkin with a salmon-coloured skin. I use it much more often than pumpkin because it is not quite as sweet as the latter. This recipe for butternut squash pâté is easy and one worth…
If you have big amounts of pepper at home and are not sure what to make from them, there are a few dishes you might consider. First of all, if you have a lot of peppers, you should definitely marinate them or add them to other vegetables and make a winter salad. However, if the…
This zucchini cream soup I made recently definitely wins in my contest of soup of the year. It’s been a long time since I ate a vegetable soup with such great pleasure. This zucchini soup with blue cheese turned out to be extremely flavoursome. I couldn’t keep myself away from eating it and I didn’t…
Are you looking for a salad recipe whose main ingredient is couscous? If so, you are in a right place. Couscous is most often served as an addition to dinner dishes. The simplest way to prepare it is to pour boiling water over it and let it swell for a few minutes. Unfortunately, couscous made…
Plums are among those fruits that can be used to prepare both sweet and savoury dishes. They work great not only in cakes but also as an ingredient for many meaty dishes. With plums I sometimes stuff ham, make a sauce to go with loin steak or stuff pork chops. In the dish below, I…
Casseroles with potatoes are a nice idea when you want to make a quick and cheap dinner. Such a dinner can last for a few days, and it doesn’t stop tasting delicious. The basis of any potato casserole is, of course, potato. What else you want to combine it with depends on you. You can…
Spring rolls are similar looking to croquettes but definitely different in taste. Their pastry is made from rice or all-purpose flour mixed with water. They can be stuffed with vegetables or with a mixture of veg and meat. Personally, I always add some mung bean sprouts and cabbage to the stuffing. The recipe that I…