Beetroot carpaccio with cottage cheese and pine nuts

Dairy products, Egg-free, Festive dishes, Gluten-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Starters, Salads

Hello again! Sometimes it’s so good not to dig in virtual reality, but just enjoy life. To notice all details and to write down in my memory (instead of phone) the best and cheerful moments with family and friends. However, the desire to cook did not disappear and I cooked many nice and delicious dishes …

Marrow fritters with red bell pepper salsa

Eggs, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

Hello again! Summer holidays have passed and I am on air again. Sunny weather and excellent mood inspired me to new culinary discoveries and unusual taste combinations. I hope that you, my dear readers, will enjoy my taste experiments. Let me remind you of my credo: QUICK AND DELICIOUS! And that’s why most of my …

Coconut macaroons

Dairy products, Egg-free, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Lunch-box

Hello. Today’s recipe is for coconut lovers. I can eat it in any form. For the first time I tried coconut shavings when I was at school. And there was this all known chocolate bar Bounty. Ate and wanted more! When I tell this to friend from Thailand, they immediately break away: “How? At school …

Cottage cheese fritters with banana and carrot

Dairy products, Fruits, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Lunch-box

Sometimes I want to diversify the bored dishes. That’s just such an option. Cheesecakes with carrots and bananas. Bon Appetite.

Orient salad

Egg-free, Fruits, Gluten-free, Lactose-free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Salads

So, the season of exotic fruits is open. I love their fresh smell and I just can not resist buying them. Recently I discovered a new fruit: a Chinese plum (loquats), little known in our country. The fruits are small, resembling apples, inside there are seeds. Taste like a sweet quince. Today I prepared a …

Millet porridge with pumpkin

Dairy products, Egg-free, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Lunch-box

We can eat porridge for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Immediately remembered a fairy tale, how the soldier cooked porridge ? True, in our case, we do not need an ax or a boot for a porridge. Millet, milk, butter and pumpkin is enough. Have a nice cook!

Zucchini fritters

Eggs, Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

Hello! I really like green vegetables. Cucumbers, salads, zucchini, celery, artichoke, green asparagus, small green patissons, and so on. And this is very well seen in my recipes, where very often green vegetables play the main role. Well, everyone knows that they have a lot of calcium and other important vitamins. But they also contain …

Strawberry tart with Patissiere cream

Eggs, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Desserts, Pies, tarts, casserole

Hello again to all cooking lovers. It is hard to write when everyone at home is a fan of “apple” products and literally snatch them from my hands. Here and now 7-month-old Nikita stretches his hands to my virtual keyboard on the iPad. Recently, I am often asked: when do I have time to cook? …

Vegetables fritters with tapioca

Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Lunch-box

I have seen tapioca in the store very often. It can be of different sizes, and is mainly used for preparing a variety of desserts. I wanted to experiment and prepare  from it an savory dish with vegetables. I really liked the result. I will add only that I expected to put the dish in my …

Salad with arugula and apple

Egg-free, Fruits, Gluten-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Salads

Once upon a time … I had a restaurant where one of the main items on the menu were salads. Perhaps this is why the preparation of salads for me is a piece of cake: mentally I mix all the ingredients, add some seasoning and know exactly what taste should I get. And every time …

2-ingredients Banana Muffins (flour- and sugar-free)

Eggs, Fruits, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Breakfast, Lunch-box

Every evening, I break my head, what to prepare to my kid to kindergarten. There are few criteria: it should be tasty, healthy and not boring. The main thing it should be eaten? So that is why appeared the recipe for muffins without flour and eggs.

Potato cookies

Eggs, Gluten-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Starters, Lunch-box

Every nation has at least one product, which is almost mandatory in the cuisine. For Ukrainians it is pork belly (“salo”), for Russians – bread, for Mexicans – corn, for Italians – pasta, for Indians – rice and for Belorussians – a potato! Bulba is a head of everything”. Grilled, steamed, boiled in their jackets …

Carrot fritters with semolina

Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Starters, Lunch-box

My parents are from Polesie, located on the territory of four countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The story so strongly intertwined culture here, languages ​​and cuisine that now it is difficult to attribute a particular tradition of a particular nation. On the table we often appeared dishes from German, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian cuisine. …

Sponge roulade with cheese cream and berries

Dairy products, Eggs, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Fruits, Desserts

I love to cook cakes without any reason. Just when I am in a good mood, or want something sweet to eat, or simply to please my home inhabitants?. Sometimes it’s way to leave my thoughts in another, culinary world of dimensional spoons and scales, as desserts like precision. And how huge positive energy I …

Cottage cheese rosettes

Dairy products, Eggs, Festive dishes, Flour, grains, pasta, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Desserts, Lunch-box

Recently, in our son’s kindergarten it was celebration of the National Day – the day of all nations. All kids got their “passports” and they passed passport control, “travelling” to different continents and countries (between rooms and playing areas arranged as Asia, Africa, Europe etc). It was prepared by the wonderful kindergarten workers. Parents should …

Vegetable kugel

Lactose-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Starters, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

Recently, flipping through a cookbook of the Belarusian cuisine, I stumbled upon a very simple recipe from vegetables. Taking as the base, I modified the recipe  and fit it to our taste. The effect was great –Vegetable Kugel was very tasty. Kugel comes from the Jewish cuisine, and translated from the Yiddish as “round“.

Millet toasts

Dairy products, Eggs, Flour, grains, pasta, Gluten-free, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Breakfast, Starters, Lunch-box

Sometimes you just dream about some snack. Of course, it could be a regular bread or crackers, chips and so on. However, when you try to limit yourself with gluten, the question arises – how can I replace bread? I have already shared the recipe of spinach bread which can be used for some rolls and …

Pumpkin and sweet potato fritters

Dairy products, Eggs, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Pancakes, mini-pies, muffins, Main dishes, Starters, Lunch-box

When I see a beautiful pumpkin in the shop, I can not just pass by, be sure I will buy it. Apparently, I still believe that the pumpkin can become a carriage. But because it is not, I have to cook something from that beauty. This time I baked the pumpkin and made fritters with …

Spinach with pine nuts and raisins

Egg-free, Gluten-free, Lactose-free, Sustainable Kitchen, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Starters, Salads

There are few vegetables and plants in my diet, from which I always want to cook something special. Eggplants, pumpkin and spinach. Though first I tried spinach only when I moved to Poland. And it was cooked and served such way that I was not surprised that half of the population didn’t like it at …

Sweet potato Mille-Feuille (eggs-free)

Egg-free, Gluten-free, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Main dishes, Lunch-box, Pies, tarts, casserole

How to loose weight and at the same time continue eating the delicious food? I tried a lot of diets, I read tons of material about health life  – I can have PhD based on it! I could’t say that they did not work. Of course, the weight is reset. Size decreases. But! Then with …