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A comforting, warm salad for cold, Winter days

zuzazak — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:07:09 +0000

On warm salads… At the start of the year, I like to have some time off social media, just getting back into my routines, weaning myself off sugar, sleeping and nourishing myself. Once the kids went back to school, I couldn’t wait to get back...

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Red amaranth, enoki mushrooms, cashewnuts and black quinoa on a hot hotday

zuzazak — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:14:00 +0000

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...

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A big, fat Polish salad with wild girolle mushrooms

zuzazak — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:02:00 +0000

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...

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Polish wild mushroom soup with crunchy macaroni

zuzazak — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:26:00 +0000

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,...

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Polish sauerkraut and wild mushroom stew with pearl barley

zuzazak — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:11:00 +0000

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...

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Babcia Halinka’s pierogi – sauerkraut and mushroom Polish dumplings

zuzazak — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:33:00 +0000

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...

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