Warsaw restaurants are booming right now and if you head there, you'll be spoilt for choice when it comes to places to eat, which could actually be a problem in itself (a good problem, but a problem nevertheless). If you are only there for a...
If you have been here before, thank you for returning - the poppy seeds lured you back in I hope. It turns out I've been pissing off everyone who comes to my site with my huge images that don't load properly and steal data. For...
I don't have many regrets in life but there is one thing I regret not putting in my cookbook - Kaszotto. They are really popular in Poland and the perfect thing to cook when you don't have much in the fridge - much like it's...
If I were to make my new year's resolutions before the start of January, they would be very rushed and badly considered. The first week of January for me is still grasping on to the remnants of Christmas, holding on to the tree and the...
If you read my blog (and it's predecessor cheesy mash) then you will know my love of happy accidents. After all, my daughter is one of them. There is nothing I love more than experimenting in the kitchen, and having the luxury (less and less...
I am extremely excited to tell you that I will be appearing on Food Network shortly in a little film about Polish Food (I believe it will be part of the Global Gourmet series, shown in ad breaks). We filmed it just a couple of...
Lilac is one of the smells that takes me back to the Warsaw of my childhood and my Babcia Halinka's apartment on a hill overlooking the Vistula River. There was a Lilac bush right outside that apartment and we would stop and smell it's flowers...
I've been trying to decide which recipes to share with you from the KinoVino-Kinoteka supper club I did a couple of weeks ago. Guests asked if all the recipes were in the book, and while some are, some were developed especially for the occasion. I...
It's only human to err and some of the best things are born out of mistakes, such as this malty springtime sponge cake with matcha icing. It was meant to be a meringue (which was in itself a by-product of baked pierogi that call for egg...