Salad with chickpeas, feta cheese, cucumber, egg and sun-dried tomatoes is a combination of vegetables and dairy products. The whole thing is seasoned with lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. There is no doubt that this simple salad satisfies hunger and tastes delicious. It works well for lunch, as a…
In the autumn, there are plenty of vegetables available that work phenomenally well in salads. These include vegetables such as pumpkin, beetroot, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, carrot, celery, leek, kohlrabi and onion. You can prepare many salads from individual vegetables or a mixture of several ones. Autumn salad is nothing more than a combination of…
I served toast with tomatoes and feta for today’s lunch. I still managed to collect a few cocktail tomatoes from my vegetable garden and I suspect that I will end this year’s tomato season with them. I still see a few more tomatoes on the plants, but I’m not sure if they will be good…
Roasted bell pepper cream with Greek yogurt and feta cheese is a great addition to baked vegetables, cheese and bread. The cream is based on red bell pepper, which is first roasted in the oven, then mixed with the remaining ingredients of the cream. The peppers can also be grilled, which I do sometimes, because…
Zucchini cakes are a vegetarian dish that you must try. I made them for dinner yesterday and my husband and in-laws were all delighted with them. To prepare these simple zucchini cakes you will need fresh zucchini – young ones that do not have too many seeds are best. After washing and drying, the zucchini…
Watermelon is a plant from the family cucurbits with a sweet and juicy pulp. It has a round shape, large size, green skin and red pulp. The summer time is the best time to eat watermelon, as this fruit is mostly build of water, which makes it extremely juicy. Watermelon is most often served raw,…
There are fruits out there that are perfect for both desserts and savoury dishes. Figs are undoubtedly one of those fruits. I had my first figs a few years ago in Croatia. They were sweet as honey, full of flavour and simply delicious. Last Friday, my Hungarian grandmother gave me a basket of figs from…
Green asparagus is a vegetable I really like using for my cooking. I like its taste as well as the simplicity with which it can be prepared. For some it might seem that asparagus does not have a very characteristic taste, but when combined with the right additions or seasoned properly, it really is an…
It might seem that frozen vegetables don’t taste good, but this dish confirms quite the opposite. Unfortunately, some out-of-season vegetables are somewhat difficult to buy fresh. That is the case with green beans. Sometimes, it’s possible to get fresh green beans in larger supermarkets, even when out of season, but unfortunately, not always. Luckily though,…
Two years ago I bought a vegetable sharpener. Since then, I have used it maybe a couple of times. Last week I reminded myself about the sharpener and decided to use it again. Choosing the vegetables for cutting was easy since I wanted to make a spaghetti, so zucchini seemed to be the best option….
Mushrooms and green beans are both perfect as the main ingredient of many dishes. They are great in sauces, cooked, in soups or in salads. You can eat them all year round, because mushrooms are available fresh all the time, and beans, if not fresh, can be easily bought frozen. This time I served mushrooms…
Tortellini are small Italian dumplings filled with meat or cheese. Their shape resembles Polish dumplings served with borscht. The dumplings are served both warm and cold. Tortellini can be served with tomato sauce, broth, grilled vegetables, deep-fried and in salads. This tortellini salad recipe is simple and does not require any sophisticated ingredients. In addition…