Recipe: Easy Polish chickpea Breton style (cieciorka po bretonsku), the most fulfilling food for your breakfast or lunch.
Easy Polish chickpea Breton style (cieciorka po bretonsku), the most fulfilling food for your breakfast or lunch. Often the naming of the dish talks about its origin. Take English breakfast for example – you hear the name and you know that it’s a type of…
Summer soup: Traditional Polish cold beetroot soup, chlodnik which you shouldn’t be afraid to serve during hot summer season
Traditional Polish cold beetroot soup, chlodnik which you shouldn’t be afraid to serve during hot summer season Although this dish originates in Lithuania (sometimes it is called Lithuanian cold soup “in Polish – Litewski Chlodnik”) it has a very long history in Poland. During the…
Summer: Easy broad beans with spring onion pesto for quick, protein packed summer lunch box which you can make in no time
Easy broad beans with spring onion pesto for quick, protein packed summer lunch box which you can make in no time I have to admit that I discovered broad beans just recently. In the past, I used to buy and cook only the basic beans,…
Stuffed cabbage rolls (golabki, holubki, töltött káposzta) perfect as a healthy and satisfying summer meal for your family
Stuffed cabbage rolls (golabki, holubki, töltött káposzta) perfect as a healthy and satisfying summer meal for your family. Oh yeah, this dish definitely belongs to my most favorite ones 🙂 I just love it 🙂 Stuffed cabbage rolls are popular not only within my family…
Sweet treat: Rhubarb under butter coffee crumble.
Rhubarb under butter coffee crumble. The crumble is the simplest dessert you could ever make. Get some of your favorite fruits, crumble butter, flour and sugar on top and you are done! There are many different variations of this dish. Depending on the season and…
Grilled gilt-head bream with potato salad.
In Poland the 1st and 3rd of May is a Holiday time – 1st of May is an International worker day and also a day when Poland entered the European Union and the 3rd of May is the Constitution day. Besides that it is the…
Recipe: Challah bread with crumble.
Polish challah bread with butter crumble. This sweet bread is known in many cultures by different names. In Polish, for example, it’s called ‘chalka‘, and in Slovak ‘vianočka’. The Brits sometimes call it the plait. It’s also well known in Jewish cuisine as it’s usually eaten…
Easter Saffron Bundt Cake
Easter Saffron Bundt Cake with icing. Bundt cake is usually associated with Easter holidays. In Poland, this type of cake is called ‘Babka’ and it means ‘older women’. The name comes from the shape of the skirt ladies used to wear back in the old…
Polish whole wheat kopytka (dumplings) with sauerkraut.
This is a very traditional Polish dish called “kopytka” (dumplings) made with honey sauerkraut. Dumplings are often present in Polish cuisine. In many homes, it was known as the ‘leftover’ dish, as it’s usually made from boiled potatoes leftover from lunch. Although nowadays ‘kopytka‘ are…
Faworki, a very traditional Polish dessert. (Fánk, fánky)
Tlusty czwartek. (the fat Thursday) Each year people in Poland celebrate a so called “tlusty czwartek” – fat Thursday. The history of this day goes a few hundred years back to the pagans era (the era before christinaity came into central Europe). In the Christian…
