04 Jul Red amaranth, enoki mushrooms, cashewnuts and black quinoa on a hot hotday
Posted at 10:14h in Blog
London is sizzling. No, I don't mean 23 degrees C going down to 10 at night, I mean a proper heatwave. Though they do say we'll be going back down to our usual, civilized 23-with-showers in the coming week. Thank god. That's not an ironic...
10 Aug A big, fat Polish salad with wild girolle mushrooms
Posted at 18:02h in Blog
Intense weather. August in Poland is hot, close and stormy. I kind of like it. Intensity is a bit underrated in the UK I feel. The UK is all about cool, while Poland is a land of extremes. Perhaps the weather is more important in...
28 Nov Polish wild mushroom soup with crunchy macaroni
Posted at 17:26h in Blog
I love the smell of dried, wild mushrooms so much that when I open the box, I can barely tear them away from my nose. Recently, my mum asked my auntie whether she'd taken any of her wild mushrooms that were standing in the kitchen,...
21 Nov Polish sauerkraut and wild mushroom stew with pearl barley
Posted at 16:11h in Blog
Perhaps it's my grandma's recent departing or perhaps it's that I'm working on a book on this very subject, but Polish food is playing the leading role in my life right now. This is a reworking of a classic vegetarian sauerkraut stew, which we would...
11 Nov Babcia Halinka’s pierogi – sauerkraut and mushroom Polish dumplings
Posted at 14:33h in Blog
It's a strange kind of sadness when your last grandparent dies. Of course, at 33, my childhood is long behind me, yet while any grandparent still lives, there is still a connection, someone who still sees you in that way. My Babcia Halinka was born...