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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.
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For 2026-10-30
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.
Beef chuck braised for three hours in a robust red wine with lardons, carrots and herbs, finished with pearl onions and mushrooms browned separately. Nothing about it is difficult; it is only long.
A soft, spongy South African apricot pudding, baked until deep gold and drenched the moment it leaves the oven in a hot coconut milk sauce that soaks all the way through — no butter, no cream, same sticky result.