addicted to baking – plum muffins
baking. even if you enjoy cooking, when you start baking, you can’t stop. even if you don’t get pleasure out of eating what you’ve done… even if you are on a diet… even if you have no experience of...
View Articlefor (my) consolation – penne with chicken and courgette
“I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood...
View Article“creating the close kindship between bloggers and readers”
“These people aren’t your friends, they’re paid to kiss your feet.” - Radiohead hm, these lyrics bring sth to my mind… I am lying on my bed with a laptop on my knees and browsing food blogs. and I...
View Articleone of perfect presents – healthy oatcakes
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!” ~Amanda Bradley of course, that is the most important in celebrating. but what about...
View Articlea perfect thing for a sad day – fresh and sweet celery salad
green tea, a warm blanket, and my laptop. it might have been the book I read. but… (there is some ‘but’, as always). but now I have to write sth, so my book has to wait. I can’t focus on my work. my...
View Articlethe quickest, the easiest version of a pumpkin cream soup – No. 1
humid autumn. dirty, dismal and sad leaves are lying on a wet ground. it’s raining. probably dull sky above naked trees in my garden has taken umbrage at the earth. or at me. well. it’s possible. I am...
View Articleone frosty day of autumn and the chickpea and tomato soup with cinnamon
7 am. window shade up. grey outside. twigs, leaves and grass frosted over. frostily. dull colour of sky above. and cloudlets of vapour from mouth. clank of keys and put a stocking cap on a head. quick...
View Articledo you watch your waistline? [light] buttermilk pancake layer cake
sweet but not too much. filling but light. looks time-consuming but it isn’t. love at first sight. or a bit, a should write. there are no candles on it. that is not my birthday or name day. this is no...
View Articlefor a hungry husband – beef stew with potatoes and ginger
sad autumn this year. what dull weather. grey every day. even after my daily walk doesn’t make be happier. sad again. my thoughts and my guitar. now I see I have to re-string… … and this recipe is...
View ArticleKruidnoten (Kruidnoot) – the quickest and easiest gingerbreads
funny name: Kruidnoten or Kruidnoot funny, because it derives from Dutch. no idea what it means. but I know that is the name of small ball-shaped spice cookies, which are given away by Zwarte Pietów,...
View Articlemollisia’s ‘come back’
forgive me my long absence… I had some complications with my computer. well, yes, I feel guilty, but I coudn’t do anything. everything I can do is telling you I’m so sorry. but despite I had to face...
View Articlebeetroot bread – pink relish
weather. it seems that it will not engross your mind. however, currently it makes me mad. intense heat then ten degrees and rain; white heat pouring from the sky and next cloudburst with frightening...
View Articlevanilla cheesecake with chocolate and prunes – for rainy days
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay. ~Tom Robbins …...
View Articlepolish apple charlotte with pearmains
I’m opening the balcony window. I’m going out and sitting on the terrace with a mug of coffee. I’m looking at the orchard. I’m observing pearmains are ripe currantly. the apple tree seems to be tired...
View Articlewhat my husband is able to do – cream soup and white pizza
pale blue walls around me. typical round lamps above. metal beds and deteriorated small metal bedside tables. tiny plastic cups with tablets and pills. I hate being in the hospital. even if I’m sure...
View Articlefascination of summer’s flavours – pearmains muffins
acidic apples light green or yellowish pearmains like little suns the last ones are smiling at me from the basket redolentt friut can’t get wasted I have to use them. in fragrant fluffy pearmains...
View Articlestores for winter – peach juice
I love it. the atmosphere of making conserve. the smell of boiling plum stew, jam, marmalade, confiture. the sound of poping tops. the view of filling the store cupboard. this year I decided to make...
View Articlespacial pancakes to worm up the atmosphere
again. rain, moisture, fog and grey. again alone. with the sense that my husband is having fun while I’ m sitting and trying to read or focus on something uppermost. again that undeminished, depressing...
View Articlepolish golden autumn and french onion cream soup
and we have “the golden autumn”, as we called such a time like this in Poland. the golden autumn it’s not only the trees changing colours and nice weather. it’s tremendously clean blueness of sky. but...
View Articlemy ‘last days of pregnancy’ craving – pear cupcakes full of chocolate
when you think ‘I get all these cravings over me”, suddanly you can see you do not. couple of days before my DD (due date) had the strong need of eating chocolate. I felt I really have to capture this...
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