Seasonally Inspired Recipes & Writing
Today is a mushroom soup day. The half-term school break was really busy, added to which, I’ve been flu-fighting. Mushroom soup reminds me of home. I crave warmth, and a strong, earthy flavour when I am sick. A hearty bowl of soup, a thick blanket and a book offers the perfect feel-better combination. I am very close to [...]
I’m excited to share this recipe with you as it’s really delicious and probably quite different to anything you may have tasted before. It’s Shrove Tuesday tomorrow, or Pancake Day here in the UK and this is one of my favourite pancake fillings. Imagine eating a soft and creamy cheesecake, but then imagine that flavour folded inside a [...]
Back to business and not the healthy kind – today we are celebrating Fat Thursday or ’Tłusty Czwartek’ as I have always known it to be called. A day for eating donughts, or Polish pączki, as well as sweet pastry twists known as chusty, or faworki and as much sweet food as you can get your hands on. [...]
Snowy weekends are all about cooking comfort food, in my case, this usually means recreating a Polish dish from my childhood kitchen. Whilst on a recent visit home, I borrowed an old 1970′s Polish cookbook, called Kuchnia Polska, to serve both as a reference point and as a reminder of home. For a quick alternative to [...]
Here in the UK, the sun is shining, the skies are blue and it’s the beginning of January. It’s a little disconcerting. The children have gone back to school, the Christmas tree is down (which means my big bay window and all our light is back) and everyone is on a health kick, including me. I’ve [...]
Another Christmas has come and gone…I hope you all had an enjoyable time. It’s been wonderful to relax, see family and friends and of course, enjoy plenty of good food and cheer. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas for me without starting it all off with a Polish Christmas Eve meal at home with my family. My mother [...]
A cold winter’s day really only demands one thing – a warming bowl of chicken soup. My favourite word this week when describing soup was ‘restorative’ - exactly what this soup is. This is my mother’s Polish recipe for a soup called Rosół z Kury, a clear soup, usually served with homemade egg noodles or dumplings. It can be made [...]
Last night, Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson was back on our television screens with her new series Nigellissima, accompanying her latest book. I’ll be writing about it next week, but in the meantime, it was Spain, rather than Italy, that provided the inspiration for Nigella’s Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes. Sadly, we didn’t holiday in Spain, we spent our summer [...]
If you are lucky enough to have apples in your garden this year, this is the perfect recipe to have up your sleeve. This year has been a bad year for our Bramley apple tree, but I managed to collect a few small apples and we’ve had the tree pruned so finger’s crossed for a better crop [...]
I made my mum’s Polish potato salad the other day. It was one of my favourite salads growing up and it’s perfect for a barbecue party or a pot luck party. The key is to chop the potatoes and eggs (once cooked) as well as the pickles into little tiny cubes, the smaller the better. It looked so pretty [...]
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