Little meringues
Today, instead of cleaning the flat (I’m leaving that for this evening, or perhaps tomorrow), Ninka and I got down to making…
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Category: Christmas
Carrot and pear cake
Today we’re getting ready for the snowfall that will probably take us all by surprise (though certainly not the road maintenance crews)…
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Cod baked under a golden blanket
Yesterday I started a new eating trend. Salmon salad, hmm, the worst part is that, to see any results on the scales,…
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Gingerbread Hearts
Yesterday, apart from sweet beetroot, we were supposed to make gingerbread hearts for Valentine’s Day. This brilliant idea came, of course, from…
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Roast Pork Loin Cold Cuts (Perfect for Sandwiches)
This isn’t pork loin I made today, but after a very successful Sunday I felt like adding a new recipe. This is…
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Classic carrot cake
I’m not going to pretend otherwise: this is today’s hit. Carrot cake, which I’d never made before. Today I asked Nina whether…
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Simple chocolate cake (with Nutella)
This cake is an example of how to make something good out of next to nothing. Today we fancied something sweet and…
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Żurek sour rye soup with sausage and egg
For a few days, a bottle of what looked like quite a decent fermented rye starter for żurek had been sitting in…
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Braised beef slices in their own gravy
Yesterday I had a huge craving for steak tartare. After watching this video, of course. The sauerkraut particularly intrigued me. Unfortunately, though,…
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Fried savoy cabbage
I have this thing — perhaps it isn’t normal — but when I see a small, shapely, wrinkled Italian beauty in the…
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