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Young beetroot ferment for Botwinka soup

zuzazak — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:23:45 +0000

Garden Kitchen surprises I have returned to my garden after a couple of weeks’ (one of those times when life just hits you in the face, you know) to find both pleasant and unpleasant surprises. The squash and globe artichokes have grown, they look strong...

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Botwinka soup and my supper club

zuzazak — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:22:51 +0000

The entire concept of soup is different in Eastern Europe. People in the UK find it hard to get their heads around the idea of cold soups or fruit soups, yet in the summer in Poland, we use soups to refresh us, or sometimes even...

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Eating seasonally: Chłodnik, cold beetroot soup

zuzazak — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:43:55 +0000

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...

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Roasted beetroot and toasted buckwheat groats salad

zuzazak — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:20:05 +0000

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...

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Beetroot stuffed with lamb and rice

zuzazak — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:22:00 +0000

January has started to make sense to me. It is a month which I would suggest we all fill with friends and plans: sharing food and hugs with the ones we love, while dreaming of what the year ahead may hold. Coming up with new...

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Warm winter vegetable salad with jerusalem artichoke

zuzazak — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:01:00 +0000

This warm Winter vegetable salad was inspired by the one I ate on a fun evening out at Bedford&Strand. In actual fact, I can’t remember much about that salad apart from that it was absolutely delicious and that it contained a vegetable that I hadn’t...

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