Lamb chops really, but they do look like lollipops! So easy to make and so good! I am a fan of lamb, I must admit. I love slowly cooked lamb, that falls apart and comes with a wonderful sauce. Well, this is the quick version. Great way to impress guests but also a quick dinner
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This is a perfect (and very simple) dish for a cold evening meal, so it is now the perfect season! Our family loves it, both at home and during skiing trips. There is nothing better than a bowl of hot chilli after a day of skiing! It is still a few weeks until we go
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A simple and fool-proof recipe for muffins with lots of blueberries. One for a day when you want some decadent dish and you are not scared to use all evil ingredients such as sugar, white flour, butter and cream. There is days when you can just need some of that. So don’t try replacing any
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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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A different take on the traditional caprese salad. Replace the tomatoes with peaches. I made it first when I was planning a traditional caprese salad and when I took the tomatoes from the bowl I realized they were nectarines, not tomatoes. But hey, just like tomatoes they are red, sweet and somehow sour, so why
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I had this sauce at a wine tasting in Provence, served along the fantastic rosé wines. The taste is not very strong, so it’s really ok to have it in public! After the wine tasting event we bought a few bottles of wine and a small jar of the sauce and it disappeared pretty quickly.
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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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It’s a soup for a very hot day, it’s really more of hydrating product or a smoothie than a soup, but on a hot day you can have it in a bowl, call it a soup and pretend it’s a full meal! It works perfectly on holidays and takes very little time to cook but you
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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.