As a Polish, I’m no authority when it comes to artichokes. If you had given them to me some…
Botwinka: Polish beetroot-leaf-soup
Last Saturday, Mike and I visited Nour al-Barakeh organic products bazaar to get some fresh veggies for the week ahead.…
Sri Lanka: Sweet and Spicy Pineapple Chutney
A week that we spent in Sri Lanka is probably not enough to learn the story of this island. I…
‘Save the world’ green radish leaves pesto
Let’s say that you bought heaps of radish at your farmer’s market and after using the root, you are left…
15-minute egg-noodles with white radish and flaxseed
Hello Folks, Our followers and friends often think that we spent hours in the kitchen preparing sophisticated dishes decorated with…
Kale-Sweet Potato Soup
Guess what. Yesterday, I got kale and chocolate tomatoes for free from We Farm, our local organic veggie shop.…
Carbonara, the bastard of globalisation
Carbonara outside of Italy is the bastard of globalisation. Internationally, chefs tend to add heavy cream, mushroom and butter…
Pizza Dough by Giuseppe de Rosa
My first encounter with pizza was in post-communist Poland. In the nineties, a country that no longer suffered from the…
Superstitious Pasta with Shrimp
This July, I visited Lorenza in Rome. Early one morning, we set off to the oldest fishmonger in Ostiense: a neighborhood known for its street art and old industrial buildings. We were on a mission to stock up for that evening’s seafood dinner. It was a hot summer day filled with urban noise and a humid breeze from the Thyrrhenian Sea. The fish monger shop was straight out of a story book. It clearly hadn’t aged well and there were no windows inside.
Pork Ribs in Sticky Vietnamese Sauce
In March, while traveling in South-East Asia, Micheal and I took a six-hour bus ride from Phnom Penh, the capital…