Recipes for traditional Christmas food including mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables and meats, pies and cakes and delicious salads.
Vegetable and fruit pâté is a vegetarian dish I encourage you to try. The basis of this simple pâté is vegetables baked in the oven, such as carrot, potato, parsley, celeriac and onion. A pear is also baked along with these vegetables, which, combined with dried cranberries, is responsible for the sweet fruit element in…
The name stracciatella covers three completely different Italian dishes: soup, cheese and ice cream. The only thing they have in common is their name. The famous Italian ice cream stracciatella is a type of gelato that contains small, irregular pieces of chocolate. Stracciatella di bufala, on the other hand, is a soft cheese from the…
Basque cheesecake comes from Spain, specifically from the Basque Country, hence the name of this pastry. This cheesecake has a characteristic “burnt” surface with a delicate caramel flavour, as well as a creamy consistency and generally fantastic taste. In addition, this particular cheesecake is not overly sweet, and its additional advantage is that it can…
Stollen is a sweet German bread, traditionally served during Christmas. It is incredibly aromatic, and moist, it practically melts in your mouth. This sweet bread cannot be complete without a large amount of candied fruit, raisins, almonds and marzipan. Sweet cakes and breads with raisins are an essential element of Christmas in many countries. What…
Gingerbread cookies are cookies without which I cannot imagine Christmas. Every year, right before the holidays, I bake gingerbread cookies with icing or gingerbread cookies with chocolate. These cookies can also be baked during the year, but the holidays provide additional motivation for baking them. Gingerbread cookies smell of spices and are made from a…
This cheesecake with halva is always incredibly popular among my guests. It tastes delicious, is wonderfully creamy and it’s really difficult to tear yourself away from eating it. Apart from its taste, it is also easy to prepare. It is a cheesecake made with biscuits, which you chop with liquid butter then lay them in…
Iceberg cake is a delicious no-bake cake consisting of custard cream, biscuits, sponge cakes and powdered milk glaze. The cake looks beautiful on the plate, it is creamy and sweet. It is a good idea to divide the preparation of this cake into two days, in the evening of the first day cook the custard,…
Creamy, light and delicate-tasting cheesecake with powdered milk, decorated with chocolate glaze. This cheesecake literally melts in your mouth, it is not overly sweet, and the thick and bitter glaze is the perfect complement to the creamy cheese mass. This cheesecake will be perfect for the weekend and beyond. It works equally well when served…
Beets salad with egg, pickles and peas is a recipe for a simple salad that can be prepared in 15 minutes, assuming that you use already cooked beets. However, if you have to cook the beets when making the salad, the time needed to prepare it will obviously be slightly longer. This salad contains unsophisticated…
Cheesecake with peach and coconut is, along with cheesecake on short cocoa pastry, one of my favourite cheesecakes. It is a cheesecake with a shortcrust base, which, in addition to the cheese mass, contains fruit and sweet coconut meringue. Although this is not a cake that can be made in 5 minutes, it can be…
Brioche roll with chestnut cream is a baked goods that I make for the second year in a row during the holidays. All thanks to my husband, who is a big fan of chestnuts in desserts and cakes. To prepare the chestnut cream, I use already boiled chestnuts, pour milk over them and sweeten them…
Sauerkraut with shelled peas is a dish that will probably be on the Christmas Eve table for many of us. This dish is extremely simple, uncomplicated and tasty. Of course, you can easily cook such cabbage, outside of the holiday season, throughout the year, and serve it as an addition to meat and fish. For…