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Kwaśnica – another type of Polish sauerkraut soup

zuzazak — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:31:11 +0000

The most well known Polish sauerkraut soup is Kapuśniak, but there is another Polish sauerkraut soup that arguably has an even more acquired taste – it’s called Kwaśnica. The sour one. I personally prefer it – I like the omittance of pork and that feral...

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Roasted purple carrot and sage soup, and earth-mothering

zuzazak — Thu, 12 May 2016 11:18:00 +0000

I am doing my own brand of earth-mothering right now. Although I can’t quite bring myself to use cloth nappies, I am washing my bubba in camomile water and using the most eco friendly, natural products possible. While I’m probably not going to do prolonged...

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Simple spinach soup

zuzazak — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:21:00 +0000

I always say that in food, as in life, simplicity is a virtue. Simple days, simple pleasures are the best. A baby’s laugh, the sun coming out from behind a cloud, a flower in bloom, these are beautiful things we do not need to fight...

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Super healthy Polish sauerkraut soup

zuzazak — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:30:00 +0000

Sauerkraut doesn’t sound terribly sexy I know. Yet it’s one of the healthiest things you can eat due to its vitamin C, mineral and probiotic content. The juice from the cabbage is a brilliant hangover remedy, my dad assures me, although I haven’t tried it...

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Polish carnival cakes: fat faworki

zuzazak — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:41:00 +0000

OK, so they’re not really called “fat faworki”, just “faworki”, but mine turned out a little on the fat side and “fat faworki” has a certain ring to it, you have to admit. Crispy, soft and flaky all at once, they were rather delicious and...

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Pearl barley, wild mushrooms, blue cheese, gherkins

zuzazak — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:40:00 +0000

There is nothing more thrilling than the feeling of cultural progress. This was my elated thought as I picked up a packet of fresh wild mushrooms in my local Tesco’s. Yes, the UK is now officially eating wild mushrooms, like the rest of our European...

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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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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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