Peking Duck

I can’t really say which cuisine is my favorite one but Chinese is for sure in my top 3. I love it for the different stir fries, variety of dumplings and for the one and only Peking Duck. I used to have it only in restaurants as I thought it was really difficult to prepare. But then one day I came across a recipe for this dish that seemed really easy, and gave it a try. It was really very good. But then, I read a bit more about Peking Duck...

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Pistachio Cookies [gluten free]

Whenever I go on holiday or for a short break, I prefer to go to a different destination each time. There are simply so many wonderful places to visit and there are only so few days of holiday.  But I have some exceptions from this rule and Rome is one of them. I love this city, I could walk there for hours every day and it really doesn’t matter to me that I have already seen some of the places there several times. While we were...

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New Year's Resolutions - how to set goals [and stick to them for life]?

We all know people who every year make new year’s resolutions. We all know people who every year make the same new year’s resolutions. We even may belong to that group. Why can we never reach these goals?  The answer to this question is not easy. For some of us having new year’s resolutions might be sort of a tradition: we set them every year (without even thinking too much about them) because everyone else does. Some of us are...

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Roasted Tomato Soup [vegan]

Tomato soup is probably the second favorite soup in Poland, just after rosół (chicken broth). Typically, the Polish version is rather thin, there is even a joke that on Sunday you have rosół, on Monday you have tomato soup as it is just a question of adding tomato purée to the chicken broth. It is not quite true (but it may be if you are in a rush!) as you can make it with fresh tomatoes and it does taste great then. But I have always...

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Lemon Meringue Roulade

I do realize that some people may think that I must have made a mistake in the above recipe name. I thought exactly the same when many years ago my mother-in-law mentioned that she was going to make it for dessert. Lemon meringue or lemon roulade sounded fine (and doable!) to me but Lemon Meringue Roulade? How was she even going to roll the fragile and easily crushable meringue into a roulade?! This conundrum was solved pretty quickly...

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Lemon Curd

Many years ago when I saw jars of lemon curd in an English shop for the first time, I had no idea what it was and how it could be used. This type of a preserve simply wasn’t known in Poland at that time. Later I learnt lemon curd was a popular ingredient for an afternoon tea in England served with scones or as a filing for pastries. I also found out from my mother-in-law another way of using it but I will write about it in my next post...

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Cauliflower Soup with Pear and Gorgonzola [vegetarian]

My passion for cooking extends also to reading recipes. When I read them, I try to imagine the taste of food prepared according to them and if I like it, sooner or later I test them out. This passion makes me buy more cookery books, find more recipes on the internet but also look for recipes everywhere: in all sorts of magazines or even promotional material in supermarkets. The below soup recipe I found in a Waitrose (British supermarket)...

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