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If you’re not a Buddhist — and specifically not from the Tibetan tradition — you probably don’t know this, but Fat Thursday (the Polish pre-Lenten feast day of indulgent sweets and fried pastries) always falls about a week before the Tibetan New Year, Losar, which this year lands on February 18. We’re already slowly getting … Read more
Valentinw’s Day menu Black lentil Pate Pears for Valentine’s DayTibetan Sou Thukpa Bread and Onion Soup Nut and Millet Cake Savory Hazelnut Casserole Pasta with Almond Vegan French Toast Soup with a Regenerative Insert Nomilkshake Scrambled egg-plant Coconogg Something Like Hummus
“In water, fish screw,” as folk wisdom says — so in vegan or plant-based cooking, there’s no place for water. Because that wouldn’t be vegan. Seriously, though: cooking soups, sauces, etc., using juice, oat milk, or broth instead of plain water lifts them to a whole new level. I developed this broth over several years, starting in … Read more
A tough choice, shamefully skipped when people talk about cooking.And yet, at the intake end of the digestive tract, there’s a cook, and at the exit end—a toilet cleaner. And yes, when you go vegan, your poop radiates goodness and cosmic light. Although sometimes it also stinks so badly that birds fall out of the … Read more
And how do you tell a crank from a reliable dietitian? A dietitian will say: It depends. Because if you eat fries, wash them down with Coca-Cola or beer, or even (or especially) vodka,then yes — that is a vegan diet.A vegan diet is unhealthy as hell. And if you eat a Mediterranean diet, with meat, of … Read more
If there were a single image that could represent both Poles and Germans at once, it would be an image of potatoes. Which is actually a bit strange, because in both countries potatoes appeared on the table relatively recently — less than 200 years ago. They largely replaced groats, and, to some extent, bread as … Read more
Here is the full translation: Since Christmas is just around the corner, here is traditional Polish Christmas Eve cabbage. INGREDIENTS:250 g dried whole peas500 g sauerkraut40 g dried mushrooms150 g dried apples (whole slices)250 g smoked plums150 g dried apples (sliced)50 ml hemp oil PREPARATION:Soak the peas for about 8 hours and cook until … Read more
Fish used to be an important part of the diet during fasting. However, this did not come from biblical tradition, but from Hippocrates’ humoral medicine. A key element of fasting was overall restraint. Fasting was not only abstaining from certain foods, but also a spiritual fast — holding back impulses, cultivating a kind of emotional … Read more
Christmas Eve in Poland means fish flavors.Even if it’s just herring and carp, there must be fish. Herring, the basic fish of Hamburg and North German street food (Fischbrötchen, the classic fish-in-a-bun), is a people’s fish — staple food for fishermen and villagers along the Baltic and North Sea coasts for centuries. In plant-based cooking, … Read more
For about fifteen hundred years, borscht has been one of the foundations of Polish and, more broadly, East Slavic cuisine. Originally made from fermented leaves of Heracleum sphondylium (which gave the dish its name), it later came to mean soups prepared on various types of sour starters — that is, fermented vegetables. Today the most … Read more