Today a Spanish proposal, which is excellent as a hot supper or quick dinner. Maybe it will bring back a nice memory for these who spent their holiday under the Spanish sun or an incentive for those who have never been there and haven't tried the specialities of Spanish food.

Chorizo is a traditional Spanish sausage made from pork. It has a strong fragrance and peppery taste which is difficult to mix up with something else. A characteristic feature of chorizo is its main seasoning: sweet smoked red pepper.

I made a stew or rather a hotpot with chorizo, chickpeas and tomatoes by using a recipe of Karol Okrasa. In accordance with this recipe, we ate it with lightly baked tortillas, but I think it would also be great with kasha or pasta.

Ingredients:
200g of chorizo
1 tin of chickpeas
1 tin of tomatoes (cubed)
2 cloves of garlic
1 onion
200ml of dry red wine
4 tablespoons of minced parsley
6 tortillas
salt, pepper and sugar

I would like to introduce to you my son's new friend. Our relationship has already lasted a few months, but every day we get to know each other better. He is big, has a long beard, wide smile, bulky belly and an equally huge heart. He lives in Cabin among many strange, fairy-tale creatures, and above all he loves children. Do you know why? Because children do not get angry for long, get a lot of fun out of nothing, like to smile, are deep sleepers and are familiar with sweets like nobody else. You see that it is easy to get on with Tappi the Viking. You need only to wake up the child sleeping within.

Every evening I travel with my son to the Magic Forest to experience with Tappi his amazing adventures. You should be aware that apart from children Tappi likes adventures very much. I guess the adventures know about it, because even a simple walk to the forest finishes in the most amazing way. The huge Viking's best friend is a small reindeer called Chichotek. Although he looks spooky, he has a big heart and a lot of good ideas which help Tappi get out of his predicaments. As well as Chichotek we meet the yakking ravens Paplak and Trajkot, a whole crew of giants, a couple of pleasant elves and some less pleasant gnomes, multi-coloured dragons, a witch called Skrzypicha, a blacksmith called Sigurd, a trader called Pasibrzuch and a hunter called Haste. The heroes are surrounded by a magical world called Cabin, which can take offence, a clever Forest, aggressive rocks, murmuring mountains, a bleak river, impish waves on the sea and a nasty wind. All of these things leave children spellbound. It is amazing that a nice Viking who cares about his friends and forest can appeal to kids as much as popular, ugly cartoons with their heroes and terrifying adventures.

The recipe I used to prepare my last dessert was named "Two ways to prepare millet groats muffins". This time I chose one of them. I made muffins with caramelized nectarines and white chocolate. They were excellent: not too sweet - fluffy and moist on the inside and crunchy on the outside. It was good I was able to prepare two batches of the muffins with the ingredients from the recipe, because the first one disappeared in a few minutes. It was no wonder, as they had such a beautiful smell you couldn't focus on anything else.

Ingredients (for 24 muffins):
Dough:
300g of flour
100g of millet groats flakes
280ml of buttermilk
280g of brown sugar
3 eggs
100ml of oil
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
100g of white chocolate
Crumble topping
50g of butter
50g of flour
30g of millet groats flakes
70g of caster sugar