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Potato fritters with halloumi cheese and tobiko

Draniki (potato fritters) for Belarusians is sacred! In principle, every Slavic cuisine has a similar dish. And the ingredients are almost the same, but it’s in proportion. The real Belarusian draniki are made from potatoes, grated extra fine (“good-bye fingers”). Flour is used, but in very small quantities. Required salt and egg. In a foreign land, I began …

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Frittelle di Spaghetti (or spaghetti fritters)

I simply love cooking this dish! Especially when I am tired from the monotony of regular spaghetti dishes. It is called Frittelle di Spaghetti One day sitting in the Queen Elizabeth 2 library, I found a culinary book and started leafing over the pages. One picture got my eye. That was fried swirly spaghetti! I …

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Linguine with Brown Butter and Croutons

When you don’t have any ideas for lunch just make LINGUINE WITH BROWN BUTTER and CROUTONS! Only 3 ingredients are needed: pasta, butter and toast bread. Additionally you can add some Parmesan, basil leaves, chilli or any favorite spices. I am sure if you have kids you freezer is full of bread crust from kids …

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Baked Beetroot Roses with Kashrawan cheese (Hajdú)

Inspired by Instagram videos and wanted to cook smth vegetarian I’ve decided to make beautiful roses from baked beetroot and cheese. It is so simple to do. You just need beetroots, any cheese you like, some honey and thyme. This recipe can be a starting point for you, dear reader, to express your own creativity …

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SMØRGÅSTORTA or bread cake

So, the holidays are over and there is a pleasant aftertaste. It is a time to share our festive menu. After all, it is never too late to do this, because it is suitable for any event, not necessarily a New Year holiday. The dish is called SMØRGÅSTORTA or a sandwich cake. Short description: …

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Pear, fennel and nuts salad

Here is one more proposition for dinner. Long time back we have changed our diet and taste habits in the family. From heavy and fatty meals we come to light and fresh one. Even when we are in the restaurants, for dinner we eat SALADS. Joking I used to say to our sons, that “Mommy …

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Home-made flat bread with meat and cheese filling

More cuisines I discover for myself, more similarities I find. Actually I start thinking that before there was only one united cuisine. And later it became splitting and changing, and now many countries or regions starts fighting for the origine of this or that products or dishes. Doesn’t it remind you anything? Remember the story …

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Tartlets with blue cheese, pears and chocolate sauce

Everyone who loves chocolate, cheese and fruits! This is a dish for you! Tartlets with blue cheese, pears and chocolate sauce. This crispy home-made pastry filled with blue cheese and covered by delicious chocolate sauce with walnuts and thyme is melting in your mouth. Soft caramelized pears on the top with edible beautiful flowers just …

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Apple and three-cheese tart

For all CHEESE fans! To be honest, it is the best tart I’ve ever eaten! Not that I praised myself, but this recipe turned out to be a glory! A tart with caramelized apples and various kinds of cheeses is a water-mouthing dish! And don’t look that the recipe is a bit long – it’s …

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Green salad with blue cheese and apples

This really simple but delicious salad is just what you need when are looking for something light for your dinner. Highly recommend!

Baked pancake with kale and sausages

After amazing holidays in my parents house in Belarus and house of my parents-in-law in Poland it is time to come back to my own kitchen. I really missed my island of invention! As our back flight was from Poland, we bought in Warsaw airport some traditional meat products, incl. sausages, without any conservatives, which …

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White beans fritters with Parmesan cheese

Good afternoon! I am very glad that I woke up the desire to continue to lead my culinary blog. Since it is absolutely non-commercial, the only inspiration for it is myself and my culinary passion, which, it must be said, never fades away, but only occasionally goes on vacation hahaha. Recently it was on vacation, …

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Flat bread roll with smoked salmon

The easiest dish to prepare for your friends and family.

Spinach salad with halloumi cheese and melon

Hello again! As often happens, that buying a melon in the store, we expect too much from it 😂. Whatever one may say, I get a sweet melon once in five. And it always covers such disappointment. Especially when you still remember the taste of honey melon from childhood, where you could eat all by …

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Squash quiche with filling

Pumpkin season is just started and right now on the grocery‘s shelves you can find a large number of different type of pumpkins. Among them one is very interesting – spaghetti squash. It is a semi-pub, semi-oval, oval in shape, light yellow in color. Its pulp after heat treatment resembles spaghetti pasta (hence the name). …

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Beef salad with halloumi cheese

My most successful recipes appear when the guests are at the doorstep. So I prepared this salad on the go and it turned out to be my trademark. In it all those products that I really love: beef, fresh cucumbers, cheese Halloumi and onions. And this salad tastes of course oriental, as it was not …

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Delicious home-made pizza

City of birth: Naples, Italy Year of birth: 1522 Place of becoming famous: US This is one of the easiest food I make every Saturday for my family. Always delicious, and always favorite. My kids say that “mommy’s pizza is the best in the world”. Loving experimenting with the food I am cooking, pizza is …

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Paratha with different stuffings

Trying to diversify the contents of my child’s lunch box, I came up with the idea of cooking something less traditional, not from our kitchen. And here we just visited an Indian restaurant (by the way, by my standards, the best Indian food – in the restaurant India Palace in Abu Dhabi in the Mazayah …

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Salad with arugula and apple

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 …

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Pumpkin and sweet potato fritters

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 …

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