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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: Vegetables

Polish dishes / February 10, 2014

This soup tastes ridiculously, ridiculously good. I’ve already had two bowls. I’m allowed. It’s my entire lunch today. Of all soups I…

Polish dishes / February 7, 2014

When I think of primitive cooking, I picture dishes like these Brussels sprouts with ham. I know, I know. For a lot…

Hungarian dishes / February 1, 2014

What sets this lecsó apart from my yellow pepper lecsó is that it’s not made with yellow peppers (it’s made with red…

Christmas / January 26, 2014

I’m spending a few days down south, so I’m staying with my parents. Ever since I started the recipe site, or rather…

Polish dishes / January 22, 2014

Today I made something terrible. So terrible I’ve already eaten 1/3 of it. That’s the most terrible thing about it: I just…

Vegetarian dishes / January 13, 2014

Well, who’d have thought it? Kale. Sometimes I go looking for cooking apps in the App Store. Most of them are rubbish,…

Side dishes / January 8, 2014

Yesterday on Twitter, Glass is Life asked me for an idea for a “healthier second breakfast”. Off the top of my head I…

American dishes / December 9, 2013

You might not guess from the photo that this is about fries, so let me explain. A friend took the picture and…

Polish dishes / December 6, 2013

Santa didn’t leave a present under my pillow, or under the Christmas tree (there isn’t one), or even under the thuja in…

Chinese dish / December 4, 2013

As everyone knows, you can’t live on memories alone. And I can’t live on the thought of yesterday’s cheeseburger. A man’s got…