Rice with hot smoked salmon and fresh green peas

Today I'm having  rice with fresh green pea, hot smoked salmon and cherry tomatoes. Doesn't fit? It does, try it! 

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Winter pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup has a lot of version, sweet, hot, curry... All of them delicious!  My friends say that this one reminds of Christmas because of gingerbread flavor. Recommended for cold, winter days. 

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Ricotta hotcakes

Very simple recipe of Nigella Lawson from the book "Forever summer" for tiny, fluffy hot cakes.  

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Pasta with pistachio sauce

Pesto (famous Italian sauce can consist of many seeds or nuts; pistachio pesto is one of my favourite. If you have got a blender, preparing of this dish is an express one. The recipe comes from my friend and now is in my regular menu.  

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Blackberry tart

I made this tart in early spring, when it was still cold outside. I had some blackberries in my freezer, from my boyfriend's mom garden. I thought about the simplest tart with these fruits. Everything to remind myself sunny and warm summer.  

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Strawberry sponge-cake with cream and jelly

Classical strawberry sponge-cake with cream, jelly and bunch of juicy strawberries. One of the best choices for hot summertime, is simple to prepare and can have as many variations as many fruits available. Strongly recommended. 

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Sorrel soup with egg

Sorrel soup served with an egg reminds my childhood and summertime. As a kid you don't like it but later on you start to appreciate.  I remember picking the sorrel on fields near the forest, now I rather buy it on the local market. It's worth to remember that dish, reminds times when different sorts of food were not so accessible as today. 

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Cream of aspargus soup with chicken and cheese

Very graceful vegetable is asparagus. You can use it many exquisite dishes. Cream of asparagus soup is a big challenge. Major mistakes are often insipid taste, no decided flavors and bad consistency.  The additives decide about its flavor as their purpose is to extract delicate asparagus taste. This dish is very nourishing and believe me one bowl is enough for dinner. 

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Korea: Japchae- chap chae

I wanted to prepare some Aisan food, something stir fried... It turned out that I have no needed ingredients beside soy sauce and seasame oil and glass noodles. So I started to improvise. Totally unexpectedly it turned out that I cooked Korean food named chap chae (japchae).  One thing missing in the dish was spinach. For the future I have to prepare myself better  and go shopping. Chapchae is strongly recommended for sesame fans. The dish is delicious.

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Fromage with garlic

In Poland all the people from my generation remember small cube of cottage cheese with garlic packed in silver paper. Today you can find it on the shop shelves but the question is if it still contains garlic, genuine butter? The answer is simple. This cheese is one of my childhood's tastes with the memory of my mother making homemade 'fromage'. Simple is perfect.  

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Rhubarb & strawberry jam

Strawberry season is thriving and rhubarb one has not been finished yet. Putting them together into one jar makes perfect couple. I can strongly recommend fresh rhubarb jam and this one closed in the jar. Then in the winter it will remind us of summer.  Perfect for breakfest with bread or pancakes. 

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Rhubarb pie with canola oil

Rhubarb season is lasting and number of rhubarb pies can be seen on cooking blogs. Today I'd like to encourage you to make incredibly easy cake based on canola oil and buttermilk. It's good to replace butter or margarine sometimes with oil.  Thanks to that this pie is moist and fluffy. Additionally  the crumble made from this recipe is marvelous. In the initial  recipe  plum jam was used instead of rhubarb. 

Rhubarb compote/ Stewed rhubarb drink

It's rhubarb time!  Rhubarb compote served by my beloved grandma- my childhood's memory. It's very refreshing, perfect for hot days and its flavor depends on small details, which can be different at each home.  Taste of the compote is forced with pepper mint, vanilla, apple and cloves.  Everyone can choose his own favourite flavor. For compote preparation pick intensive pink stalks, which give back their color to water while cooking. If you have more greenish rhubarb, add slice of fresh beetroot to make it more pink. 

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Homemade rafaello pralines

After making a milk sandwich dessert, recipe here, I knew that this milky filling would be perfect for making Rafaello. These small candy balls are milky-coconut flavour, extremely sweet and the best when served cooled. It's very simple recipe which I can strongly recommend.  

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Snickers cupcakes

There was a family order for these muffins, so here they are. Cupcakes often are small masterpieces, there are a million ways to make and decorate them. When the genuine butter comes on the table, you have to cook them. My favorite cupcakes are chocolate ones, and here you find snickers variation here.  Because of added snickers pieces, our men are real fans of these cupcakes. My inspirations are  here and, as usual here, for caramel sauce. 

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The simplest lemon Easter cake

The simplest Easter cake with lemon flavor to make but not only for Easter.  Good for every occasion, it’s fluffy and keeps its freshness for a long time. Strongly recommended when your time for food preparation is limited.

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Italy: Tiramisu

Tiramisu is one of the quickest classical desserts to prepare. For this sponge cake we have to book half an hour only and then long time for cooling. Probably, Tiramisu comes from Italian Treviso city. The original recipe can be found here. I also used my bible of desserts to prepare this delicious cake. Taking couple of simple rules into account can turn Tiramisu dessert into a piece of cake.

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