Salad with Prosciutto, Mozzarella and Mango

I found a recipe for Prosciutto, Mozzarella and Mango Salad in a magazine about 15 years ago. So much time has passed since then and I lost the original recipe in the meantime but I still make this delicious salad. There are many reasons why it is among my favorite salad recipes: it requires few ingredients, it is extremely easy to make, light, delicious and it looks fantastic. It can be served as a starter individually plated for each...

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Spaghetti with Mussels in Tomato Sauce

Once I became more confident with mussels (please see my earlier post), I decided to cook them with one of my favourite ingredients – pasta. As it was in the case with Mussels in White Wine Sauce, the preparation of this mussels recipe was not too difficult but the final meal looked really impressive: as if I had spent hours in the kitchen. In truth, this meal can be finished in 30 minutes (excluding the mussels’ preparation, please...

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Tabbouleh – Healthy Parsley Salad [vegan/vegetarian]

If somebody had told me, when I was a child, that years later I would not only eat but really enjoy a salad in which parsley was a main ingredient, I would have never believed them. My mother added chopped parsley to many soups and sauces and I really didn’t like it. In truth, I didn’t understand why she was doing it. So when I started cooking myself, I would always omit that – unnecessary in my opinion – ingredient. But a few years...

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Mussels in White Wine Sauce

I don’t know about you, but there have always been meals that I have been scared to prepare. I either think that a recipe is so complicated that I would spend hours making the dish, or that the ingredients are too difficult to handle. One meal that consistently scared me was cooking mussels. However, one day I decided to finally face my fears and bought those mussels. And I realized that they aren’t as difficult as I thought! Though...

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Meringue Cake with Strawberry Cream

Meringues are one of my favourite types of cake, and honestly I could have them a few times a week. However, due to the high sugar and calorie content, I try to restrict myself – but every now and then I either make a meringue cake, or have it as a special treat. Some time ago I had a wonderful strawberry meringue in a restaurant, and I really wanted to make it myself. I had made meringues before, so that part was not an issue; but the...

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Broad Bean, Egg and Radish Salad [vegetarian]

I remember having broad beans as a snack when I was a child. During the summer, when we visited my paternal grandparents, there would always be a big bowl of broad beans cooked simply with salt waiting for us at the table. We would all help ourselves, pop the beans out from their skins, and eat them while we were talking. Such a simple, yet delicious and healthy snack! A few years ago my mother started using broad beans in a salad with...

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Sponge Cake with Strawberry Mousse [Birthday Cake]

I don’t know about you but a sponge cake with whipped cream and strawberries is a summer classic for me and I have made it many times. This time however I wanted to add a twist to it and instead of adding slices/pieces of strawberries on top of whipped cream, I wanted to mix everything together to make strawberry mousse. The idea was really good - the mousse was delicious - the only issue was that it wouldn’t be stiff enough so I had to...

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Potato Salad [vegetarian]

I come from a country where potatoes have always been a staple food. In the past and even nowadays lots of Polish people – especially the older ones – couldn’t imagine having their portion of meat/fish for lunch or dinner without potatoes. I personally didn’t like potatoes for a long time so you can imagine how difficult it was for me to enjoy a meal-time, when I was a child. Although there are many Polish recipes that use potatoes,...

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Strawberry Jam [Confiture]

I was hesitant about including this Strawberry Jam recipe on my blog. And it was not about me being uncertain of the taste as the confiture is indeed tasty. I was just unsure how many people would be interested in spending 2-3 days preparing it. I was also aware that some people might have been put off by the amount of sugar used to make this preserve. But the 2-3 days doesn’t really mean slaving for 48-72 hours in the kitchen as you...

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