I know that the spring and the summer has come when I can find beautiful green cabbage heads on the stands. I like it as stewed cabbage with dill and American bacon, or as a salad with carrots, onions and dill. Today I would like to share with you a recipe for crumpets with cabbage. This dish is for vegetarians, but you may easily change it to a dinner for meat lovers. Prepare some gravy and make a different version of Gypsy style crumpets. I served this dish with warm mushroom sauce, but it tastes great with cold garlic or dill yoghurt sauce. Choose your favourite version.

Ingredients:
¼ of a young cabbage
2 eggs
3 tablespoons of cream
5 tablespoons of flour
a fistful of dill
100g of cheese
salt and pepper

A summer holiday weekend afternoon. A hammock or lawn chair, drowsy laziness and a good book. Moments like this are like gold dust. Some excellent tea and any light sweet desert would also go down well.

This crunchy, wafery tart with creamy crème and fruit is an excellent proposal for a summer dessert. Add to the crème some lemon zest and lemon juice or essence and your family will wonder what you have changed in the dessert to make it so great. Strawberries and blueberries have contrasting tastes and fresh leaves of peppermint complete the picture. If you are fed up with strawberries, use other types of fruit. Raspberries, which have started conquering the stalls, would be great.

Ingredients:
200g of blueberries
400g of strawberries
dough:
250g of flour
4 teaspoons of caster sugar
a pinch of salt
2 yolks
120g of butter

The holiday – a deserved time for rest, and although everybody wants to, we cannot always go away with our children for two whole months. Fortunately, there are weekends and despite having loads of work we can go away for one day.

We only have to look around and we can find countryside attractions. Today I would like to propose a day out within one hour from Warsaw. There will be a bit of history, sightseeing, nature and some fun. There is something for everybody.

Within the programme for the development region of Łódź, Tomaszowska Okrąglica was created. It consists of Nagórzyce Grottoes, Sanctuary Blue Spring and Open-Air Museum of Pilica River. It is worth visiting all of them.

Nagórzyce Grottoes are a remnant from the underground sand mine which was in operation from the XVIII century to the beginning of the XX century. They consist of numerous passages, niches and chambers created while sand mining. After a tragic incident in which a villager died as a result of one of the chambers collapsing, the local authority handed down a decision to close the mine. For many years the pit degraded and was the meeting place of truants. However, recently, a properly secured tourist route was created. We visited it with a guide, who aimed her account at the youngest visitors. We got to know about different ways of mining and ways of securing the safety of the pits. We heard the story about the Nagórzyce devil, about the ruffian Madej and his bed. We looked out for dwarfs, who turned on the light in the mine, and finally we looked for a red hat lost by one of the dwarfs. My children were delighted. When arranging a trip to the Nagórzyce Grottoes, remember to take warm coats, because the temperature in the mine averages about 10 degrees Celsius.