With colder days coming, it’s time to increase the intake of cinnamon and gingerbread spices, so here we go with a simple and healthy recipe to get in the mood for winter. The recipe for muffins is 100% plant based, instead of eggs, I am using aquafaba (that’s just the liquid from the can of
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This is probably the simplest of the recipes I ever posted, but it takes what is really hard for me which is patience. So if you are stuck home now, want fresh bread but have no yeast, sour dough is the way to go, and you will love it!

My kids wanted a pet. A dog or a cat. I said no. Then they asked for anything else: rabbit, guinea pig, fish. No, no, no. Then I brought a pet home. Sour dough. They were disappointed, to say the least. But sour dough was just as much as I could handle in terms of
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I recently went to Turkey and in Istambul I had this most amazing baba ganoush, although it was called ‘aubergine salad’, I guess in order to explain the unaware tourists what was it’s main ingredient. Since then I am trying to recreate it, and I do manage to have the same taste, but the original
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A lovely soup for a cold evening (and we have plenty of these now…). And vegan (unless you add the cream of course).

Another dinner party for my group of (kinda crazy) friends and yet another invention. It is another take on roasted pepper soup but this time cold and spicy! I was serving the dinner on one of the hottest days of the year (or so I hope that it would not get any hotter this year!),
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That is a the most surprising thing I ate (and liked) this summer. It was served on a very hot day in a cold soup and it was brilliant. Celery has wonderfully refreshing taste which works very well with sugar.  I would have never thought of that, but it was there, on my plate, so
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This is literally one of the best things I ever ate. And cooked. It has so many layers of flavor that it just explodes in your mouth… It’s refreshing and amazingly healthy. A perfect dish for a hot, summer day. I had it in a little bistro in Warsaw (yes, I know, Warsaw is not
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Ratatouille is the star dish in a kids movie about a very talented rat, who becomes a chef. In the movie, a famous food critique remembers his mom’s ratatouille and appreciates the classic French dish prepared from whatever veggies were found in the kitchen that day. This is exactly what it is – whatever summer veggies
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It’s a sauce to make if you have an overflow of tomatoes, especially overripe and maybe not pretty enough for a tomato carpaccio… The list of ingredients is very short, it’s simple and it tastes like summer. If you like it very much you can have it as a  soup as well.