As I get older, I start to enjoy calmer things in life. Savouring every sip of a strong cup of coffee early in the morning. Taking a walk down a forest path rather than a bustling street of a big city… Recently, especially in the last year due to the pandemic, I have been impatiently […]
Salads… I haven’t fallen in love with them at first sight. I actually couldn’t understand people who devoured them lunch after lunch during my London days… It took me a while to fall in love with them. But then I realised why. It is all about the interplay between varying textures. It is a delicate […]
Green split peas do not have a good reputation. They are mainly associated with bland soup or cooked cabbage (in Poland, groch z kapusta, one of the dragged canteen staples…). Could it be that the problem aren’t the peas themselves, but the way in which we are used to preparing them? I decided to disenchant […]
This post is long overdue… Back in October, the weather was changing rapidly with the arrival of autumn, the clouds covered the mountain peaks and we have had some rain showers, intertwined with some truly summer-like sun rays. I was more than ready to get into this cozy and colourful time of the year, so […]
Even though the fall is just around the corner, we have been blessed with a few final summer weather days, with the temperatures reaching up to 30°C. As I discovered some last local strawberries and blueberries of this season, I decided to embark on a baking project which combines the ultimate breath of summer, before […]
It took me a while to decide on my first recipe to publish on this blog and even though it is already September, as the heatwave of the summer arrived in the second half of August this year, I decided to include a recipe that still refers to the summer feeling. I wanted it to […]