Black Pasta with Cod and Tomato Sauce

Fresh black pasta is very special for me as firstly I cannot get it easily in shops and secondly – even if I wanted to make it myself – I still would have a problem with getting the special ingredient. So when it is available either in a shop or in a restaurant, I always try to take advantage of such an opportunity. The special ingredient – ink of a squid or cuttlefish - not only gives the dark colour to the pasta but also the slight...

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Green Pea Soup [vegetarian]

Green peas are very high on my own list of favourite vegetables. I like them for many reasons: their slightly sweet taste, their beautiful green colour and also for their versatility. You can add them to salads, soups, stews; together with a boiled egg and a bit of mayo they make a great and speedy snack or they can be served as a side dish for a roast or any other meat or fish dish. A list of health benefits of green peas is...

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Vegetarian Chilli Con Carne [vegetarian/vegan]

It was ages ago when I cooked Chilli Con Carne for the first time and it was so easy: I fried some beef, opened a pack of seasoning fix, added tomatoes and red beans and done! Yes, however much I am embarrassed to admit to it now, I used a fix to make that dish. And what is even more embarrassing, when that ready to prepare packet wasn’t available any more... I stopped cooking Chilli Con Carne. It took me some time to realize I...

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1 Hoisin Chicken Wrap 2 Go

As I have mentioned earlier on this blog, I couldn't be a proper vegetarian because it would be too difficult for me to give up some of my favourite meat dishes, and Peking Duck is one of them. I love having it in a restaurant; I do prepare it myself from time to time. But “time” is a key word here: sometimes there is simply not enough time to either wait for the duck to marinate or to make pancakes. This is when these wraps come...

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Top 10 Spaghetti - with Spinach, Mozzarella and Cherry Tomatoes (vegetarian)

When I think about ingredients that are the most typical for Italian cuisine; spaghetti, mozzarella, tomatoes, olive oil, spinach and garlic would be very high on the list, probably in the top 10. This pasta dish uses all of the ingredients and – except for seasoning and water – only them. It is very easy and quick to prepare but the result is absolutely wonderful. I used to cook it just for my husband and I when our daughters were...

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Fish and Tomato Soup

Good tomato soup is always a winner. I make quite a few different types of tomato soup and I am sure so do many other people. I thought about this recipe when I ended up with some fish “leftovers” after I cut out nice, thick fillets from a cod.  This soup is a great way of using such thinner parts of cod or any other white fish. It is aromatic and substantial as addition of chopped tomatoes and green peas turns it into almost a stew....

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Teriyaki Salmon with Broccoli and Rice Vermicelli

The below recipe wasn't even supposed to be on my blog. One day I was so busy that when it came to deciding about dinner, I felt as if I was going to cook for the first time in my life: my head was completely empty of any ideas. I checked what we had in the fridge and in the pantry and decided to play it by the ear, without having great expectations as to the final result. I found salmon and broccoli, so some type of stir-fry seemed to...

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