French onion purée with cognac – Purée d’oignons

French onion pueree

I found this recipe in traditional French cookbook. Onion purée comes from Champagne/Paris region. It goas well with any meat dishes and mashed potatoes. I mix sometimes mash potatoes and onion purée together, but they taste also very well seperate. For the onions I used cogniac but the original recipe says that you should use …

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Polish Christmas Dried Mushroom Soup

Polish Christmas Mushroom Soup

Every Christmas Eve my mother prepers that soup as a starter. I guess like half of the mothers in Poland:) Just to not confuse you – there is another traditional soup served on Christmas Eve: beetroot soup. But today is all about mushrooms! This year on Christmas dinner with our friends we prepared it and …

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Balkan salad with Peppers and Feta Cheese

Balkan Salad

Our friend Bardhi prepared for our Christmas dinner a Balkan Salad. The salad was fresh, nutritious and just delicious. Its goes very well as a starter or with meat and potato & onion mash which we were serving that day. Portions: Preparation time: 20min Ingredients: 1 cucumber 3 tomatoes 200g of feta cheese 50g black …

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Pumpkin Pie

American pumpkin pie

Pumpkin pie is a traditional dessert, often eaten during the autumn and winter – especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas. One of the biggest producers of pumpkin is North America and also here was found the oldest evidence of pumpkin. In United States in cold months is all about pumpkin: pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin …

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Waffles with icing sugar

waffles with icing sugar

Matthias waited really long time before he made me his special breakfast – waffles with icing sugar. And guess what? It became one of my favorite dishes! Here I wanted to share with you his secred recipe. Trust me, those will be the best waffles you have ever had in your life!