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Category: Vegetables

Christmas / January 31, 2015

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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Christmas / January 10, 2015

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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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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Polish dishes / November 11, 2014

Raw carrot salad

This is the simplest side dish for dinner (well, perhaps grated carrot with just sugar is even simpler). One of Ninka’s two…

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