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Category: Diet-friendly

Polish dishes / November 11, 2014

Raw white radish salad

I need to pull myself together: this is supposed to be Primitive Kitchen, yet I’m serving duck (for example, duck with porcini…

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Asian dishes / November 11, 2014

Light spring rolls

Kaja sent me this recipe for spring rolls, supposedly as a gift for the approaching anniversary. To be honest, I’d have preferred…

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Christmas / October 21, 2014

Flourless nut cake

Kaja owes me 4 recipes, 3 recipes. This is the first: a recipe for flourless nut cake, which I couldn’t make anyway…

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Polish dishes / October 16, 2014

Sweet roasted beetroot

The recipe for sweet roasted beetroot came about completely by chance, as the finishing touch to an oven-cooked dinner. It fitted perfectly,…

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Polish dishes / October 3, 2014

Creamy broccoli soup

Remember my shopping trip to Siewierz? To the best greengrocer’s in the world? I wrote about it in my recipe for spicy…

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Polish dishes / September 25, 2014

Lightly fermented dill pickles

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll keep this short. Here’s a recipe for lightly fermented cucumbers, the finest preserved vegetables of all. Simple and…

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Arab dishes / September 21, 2014

Banana and fig smoothie

A productive morning today. All I had for breakfast was the banana and fig smoothie you’re reading the recipe for. Really nourishing,…

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