Beef Escalopes in Green Peppercorn Sauce
This dish is striking in its simplicity. Look: really just 6 ingredients (plus frying oil and salt). Simple, primitive. And yet it…
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Category: French dishes
Grilled prawns
Dear ladies. Yes, some lovely ladies graced my plate yesterday. With, as you probably already know, some exceptionally uncomplicated spinach leaves that…
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Pan-fried duck breast in citrus sauce
Until now, I have always cooked duck breast until it was well done all the way through, whether roasted or fried, and…
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Tarte flambée
What is this oddity doing here? Well, it is not that odd really; only the name is strange. Don’t be fooled: it…
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Provençal-style baked baguette
Nothing special, really: just a ridiculously simple way to revive an old, or rather dried-out, baguette. You bought a baguette, it sat…
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Spiced puff pastry crescents
I bought this recipe for … with a jar of my home-preserved fig jam. So I’ll hand you over to its author…
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Cinnamon szarlotka (Polish apple cake)
Is this a good time for apple cake? A friend told me she didn’t think so. The apples are still too sour,…
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Baby octopus
By a rough count, I spent nearly 5 months in China. That’s quite a stretch, all told. Apart from Poland, of course,…
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A simple breakfast salad with thyme toasts
For breakfast today I fancied scrambled eggs. I was just about to get started when I thought how nice tomatoes are with…
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Ratatouille (ratatuj) without tomatoes – why not?
This dish took me a bit by surprise. I had guests coming over and a serious craving for vegetables. Somehow I’d got…
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