If I ever had to stop eating meat, I would only be able to do it if I could still eat fish. I like all kinds of fish, so I like to go to the seaside where dinners in fish restaurants are an obligatory part of the agenda. On the Polish west coast we often visit a fish and chip shop in Kamień Pomorski. For a few years they have prepared excellent fish dishes with fresh fish from the sea. The local fish soup is second to none, and we always eat it when we are there.

Today I would like to share with you the recipe for my fish soup. It has a lot of tomato with spicy ajvar and a couple of types of fish. The kind of fish you choose depends on what you like and what you can buy. You can use fillet of fish, which is convenient because there are no bones. It's better to buy whole fish from which you can cut fillets and use the rest to cook fish bouillon. Cooked this way it has a deep and more intense taste.

Ingredients
bouillon
0.3 kg of leftover fish
3 allspices
2 bay leaves
1 clove garlic (with skin)
a quarter of onion
the rest
0.7 kg of fish fillet
1 carrot
1 parsley root

Fish reigns on Christmas Eve. Traditionally, we serve herrings, carp, zander, and sometimes salmon. In our home we like fried carp and jellied carp, and we have herring served with onion or in a cream sauce. It is our steady repertoire. Every year we prepare something new and interesting. Certain dishes have settled with us for a long time, but others, even though they were good, don't come back the next year.

This time I would like to propose to you a salad with anchovies, beetroots and eggs. It looks extremely decorative, especially when served in glasses. Next time I will add a layer of diced doll pickles mixed with hot peppers. This sour and spicy taste should go very well with the salty anchovies and sweet beetroots.

Ingredients (for 2 people):
200g of anchovies
2 beetroots
3 eggs
2 tablespoons of minced parsley
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of honey
salt and pepper

It was meant to be a cake for children. And it was, but only at the beginning. Thanks to the courtesy of a couple of adults, its size diminished significantly. This dessert doesn't need baking, so it is great even when on holiday, when we rarely have access to an oven. I recommend it as an excellent dessert for the whole family. Unless your favourite dessert is herrings ... In this case I don't recommend it because it is quite sweet. You can prepare it in the evening and leave it in the fridge. The next day the cake will be excellent.

You can use puffed wheat with honey or common puffed rice; then the dessert is less sweet.

I found the inspiration for this dessert on www.smaker.pl "Kinder country – a cake without baking".

Ingredients:
200ml of 30% sweet cream
125g of mascarpone cheese
60g of puffed wheat with honey
100g of petit beurre cookies
100g of white chocolate
200g of dark chocolate
100g of cherry jam

Today I would like to share with you a recipe for a dish which has been served at the Sunday breakfast table for a few weeks now. Until recently, our favourite weekend meal was "egg on a box". A few weeks ago my husband prepared "hambukses". My children wouldn't be themselves if they didn't moan and groan before seeing and trying something new for breakfast. A novelty on a plate is suspicious, and it is necessary to take precautions by embellishing it with an appropriate serving of grimaces. Today "hambukses" have a permanent place on our home menu.

Fresh crusty kaiser rolls are essential when preparing "hambukses". You may also brown them in a toaster. Equally important is fresh fragrant ham. You can fry the eggs the way you like them. In our home everyone has their preference: with runny yolk which daintly drips from the kaiser roll, more congealed or well done.

Ingredients:
4 kaiser Rolls
4 slices of cheese
4 slices of ham
4 eggs
2 dill pickles
2 tablespoons of butter
a fistful of radish shoots

Breakfast is a very important meal. Everybody knows this. A hungry man doesn't think about his job and learning, but only about his rumbling stomach. Breakfast which is healthy and tasty, but above all fast and easy to prepare, is worth its weight in gold. This dish is appreciated by every mum who is in a hurry to get both herself and her children ready. Morning fussiness really doesn't help this along.

I would like to share with you a breakfast which you can partly prepare in the evening and finish off in the morning and then serve as a dish fit for a king. You should soak some chia seeds in milk and leave them overnight. You can use cow's milk or coconut milk (I use a mixture of both) or if your children don't drink cow's milk, use soya milk (maybe vanilla soya milk – the best for children). Serve with your favourite fruits, desiccated coconut or roast almond slices.

Ingredients (for 4 people):
3 tablespoons of chia seeds
100ml of milk
200ml of coconut milk
3 tablespoons of honey
½ teaspoon of vanilla essence
mango
3 tablespoons of desiccated coconut
150g of blueberries