Aromatic Hungarian stew with peppers and tomatoes is a lunch dish that can be served on any day of the week. The stew tastes delicious served with mashed potatoes, potato fritters, bread or Silesian dumplings. Preparing Hungarian stew is easy because, apart from cutting the meat and vegetables, you only need to fry them for…
Baked tortilla with chicken and vegetables is a dish that works great for dinner or as a snack. In this dish, tortilla wraps are filled with poultry, mushrooms, onion and zucchini filling. Some cheese and tomato sauce is also added when folding them. After that, the tortillas can go to a baking dish, sprinkled with…
Pasta salad is a great dish that can be served not only as a snack but also as a dinner. Thanks to the pasta content, this salad will make you feel full fast. For me, pasta-based salads go best with fresh vegetables. Sometimes, I add meat to them as well, in which case I usually…
One of the most common ways for combining vegetables is salads. Virtually, all vegetables can be served as a salad, let them be in raw, cooked or pickled form. However, if you are bored already with making salads, make a vegetable cake instead. The vegetable cake, whose recipe I am presenting you below, is prepared…
Recently, I’ve been making more and more vegan dishes. I’m trying trying to experiment with both sweet and savoury ones. As I have already mentioned some time ago, vegan desserts are quite difficult to prepare for me. The fact that eggs, butter etc. all need to be replaced by other vegan-friendly products can sometimes be…
Casserole is a great idea to combine vegetables with meat and sauce. In a casserole, you can use practically everything that you have in the fridge. Often those can be leftover food such as meat, vegetables, dairy products, fish. At home, I make both vegetarian and meaty casseroles – in the latter, I mix the…
A cabbage salad with tomato, cucumber and red onion is perfect for meat dishes. Today I made fried chicken breasts for dinner, served with new potatoes and this cabbage salad. If you have a vegetable slicer, you will prepare this salad in 10 minutes. Without a slicer, it will take a while longer, because the…
Are you looking for a salad recipe whose main ingredient is couscous? If so, you are in a right place. Couscous is most often served as an addition to dinner dishes. The simplest way to prepare it is to pour boiling water over it and let it swell for a few minutes. Unfortunately, couscous made…
Plums are among those fruits that can be used to prepare both sweet and savoury dishes. They work great not only in cakes but also as an ingredient for many meaty dishes. With plums I sometimes stuff ham, make a sauce to go with loin steak or stuff pork chops. In the dish below, I…
Avocado is a fruit that comes from Mexico. It is very popular in America, Asia and Europe. It is an excellent source of vitamins, proteins and fat. You can made dips, salads, smoothies, sandwiches and many other delicious dishes from that fruit. The combination of avocado and boiled or poached egg is amazing. I make…
I am looking forward to the spring. Nothing can replace the taste of fresh lettuce, chives, radishes, parsley or spring onions. In March, the first pieces from the greenhouse vegetables should already be available in stores. So, I bought a pretty radish last week. I do not know if it is imported because I did…
Tomato soup is one of my favourite soups. At home, my mother used to serve it with cream and egg pasta. Tomato soup with pasta brings back memories of flavours from my childhood. I am curious if you also have such dishes and if you prepare those from time to time. You can prepare tomato in…