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Good recipes, a few stories and the occasional provocation. In the kitchen, what matters is what ends up on the plate.

Category: Quick dishes

Asian dishes / November 8, 2026

Chinese-style turkey with crisp vegetables, cashews and a white wine sauce, served over jasmine rice with a runny fried egg. A quick…

Christmas / January 3, 2021

We woke up in Poland in 2021. A better Poland, because it has a vaccine. A better Poland, because it already has…

Italian dishes / May 30, 2020

The blog has already featured a few recipes for carbonara, but this really is the most classic one. Compared with the earlier…

Italian dishes / May 18, 2020

I’m getting old in my old age, so this won’t be long. Apparently it isn’t really old age yet. Certainly not a…

Asian dishes / April 1, 2020

We won’t spend too long debating whether this beef is or isn’t Chinese-style. The way some people are debating today whether the…

Polish dishes / March 13, 2020

All right, nobody paid me for this post. It came more from a sense of helplessness. Read on! Today, you can’t even…

Christmas / February 21, 2019

With spoon-drop dumplings, too 🙂 Here’s a quick recipe to go with a quick update on what’s happening at Prymitywna Kuchnia. Quite…

Arab dishes / January 8, 2019

The fact that Stu, Jacek and I went to two very good places on Saturday has about as much to do with…

Vegetarian dishes / December 11, 2018

It’s my mum’s birthday today, so this is a birthday post of sorts. Not entirely for Mum, though: more for Dad. Imagine…

Italian dishes / May 2, 2018

In April, just after Easter, I had an extraordinary honour. I was invited to an away session organised by Think Tank on…