I had this (or well, kind of similar) soup in Poland. Well, maybe the ingredients are not typically Polish, but Polish chefs are really creative and there is lots of good ideas that I can get while eating out there! The pickled ginger adds the soup wonderful spice, making the soup’s flavor warm and interesting.
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The star of this dish is the ginger. It gives the sauce this spicy (but not hot) flavour, slightly then lightened by the lemongrass and coconut milk, which in the end beautifully marries with crispy shrimp. It can be an appetizer, or a main dish (depending how many prawns you want to serve per person),
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Thai flavors, curry paste and cilantro again. I know! I must have something for the curry paste recently. But there is something is this lightly spicy and lightly sweet combination that works for me as a perfect comfort food. And today is a Monday and it’s raining. Something comforty and warm is a must. And
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I had the pleasure to host a dinner party with a few our good friends last night. It’s the autumn so I wanted something seasonal, I tried to marry baked peppers with ricotta cheese but I couldn’t really come up with anything constructive. And Karl came up with the idea of pumpkin soup. I didn’t
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Even though it’s end May, some days it does not feel like the summer is about to come. So although this soup is perfect for cold, rainy October months, today it worked just as well! It is a simplified version of Nigella’s recipe. I like it better with fresh fish, and don’t care so much
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I don’t call it a sauce, because it is not cooked, and it sounds more sophisticated. It is based on coriander which is an Asiatic spice, but I actually found a base for this recipe in a French cookbook. That’s why this French sounding title. This green, fresh and spicy sauce works great with fried
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Ingredients 3 fillets of merlu (European hake according to wikipedia), or any other white fish will do Stripes of bacon 1 zucchini 1 carrot Half a red pepper (can be a whole one but I had a half just waiting there to be added) Coconut cream (I opened a 200ml box but didn’t use it
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