My Children and Our Love for Omelettes Omelettes have been a regular part of our family breakfasts ever since my son was around eighteen months old. He absolutely loved them, whether served plain, with a little honey, warm pan-fried apples…
Have you ever turned a packet of beef gravy granules around and actually read the ingredients? Not just the cooking instructions or nutritional information, but what really goes into that familiar brown sauce. I did, and something caught my attention.…
There are some meals that don’t need much introduction, especially when you’ve grown up eating them. A tender piece of beef, a generous spoonful of homemade gravy, soft Silesian dumplings or potatoes, and a side of warm, sweet-and-savoury beetroot. It’s…
There’s something a little melancholic about autumn. The days grow shorter, the evenings arrive earlier, and the warmth of summer slowly gives way to chilly mornings and golden leaves. Markets begin filling with pumpkins in every shape and shade of…
If you’ve ever wanted to make traditional Polish pierniczki but couldn’t find the right spice mix in your local supermarket, you’re not alone. Polish gingerbread spice mix, known as przyprawa do piernika, isn’t always easy to find outside Poland. Fortunately,…
Christmas wouldn’t feel quite the same without the smell of gingerbread spices filling the house. These traditional Polish gingerbread cookies, known as pierniczki in Poland, have been part of my Christmas celebrations since childhood. I remember them from Christmases at…
Lemon curd is one of those things that can turn something really simple into a proper dessert. Spoon it over pancakes, use it to fill profiteroles, spread it between cake layers or make it the star of a lemon tart.…
Every autumn, apples somehow find their way into almost everything I bake. We absolutely love them in our house, and I can’t imagine this time of year without a good supply of apples in the kitchen. I still remember my…
Growing up in Poland, pancakes meant one thing in our house: thin naleśniki, what most people here would call crêpes. That was what my mum made, and naturally, when I had my own children, that was what I made for…
