Żurek
Polish sour rye soup built on a soured rye starter, simmered with smoky sausage and potatoes, finished with cream and halved boiled eggs — a tang no other soup quite reaches.
A starter, a main and a dessert, already chosen. Swap anything you do not fancy.
For 2026-10-29
Polish sour rye soup built on a soured rye starter, simmered with smoky sausage and potatoes, finished with cream and halved boiled eggs — a tang no other soup quite reaches.
A whole meal of pork, chicken, kumara, pumpkin, potato and cabbage, wrapped and slow-cooked together until the meat falls apart and the vegetables carry its smoky, earthy juices — adapted here for a home oven from the traditional earth-oven method.
French congolais — not the almond macaron, but a rustic coconut mound: whisked egg white and sugar folded through desiccated coconut and baked until the peaks turn deep gold.