Everybody knows that we should eat fish. In Poland we most often go for salmon, trout, codfish or herrings. Zander, flounder and, less commonly, sole, turbot and rose fish take possession of our summer holiday table. During my seaside holiday I often buy smoked halibut. I like its delicate texture and, obviously, its inimitable taste. More rarely, halibut appears on our table as a dinner dish. This is a big mistake.

Halibut, like every sea fish, is a valuable source of iodine – an ingredient necessary for children's growth. If it is missing from our diet, it could contribute to difficulties in learning. Halibut also contains antibacterial copper, iron, zinc, calcium and phosphorus. Reportedly, fish oil soothes our trouble with rheumatic joints.

In one of my favorite trips with Karol Okrasa there appeared a recipe for rolls, or rather stuffed savoy cabbage with halibut. Today I decided to try it.

Ingredients:

400g of halibut fillets

4 leaves of savoy cabbage

a few sprigs of fresh dill

I wish that every young employee beginning their professional career could meet such a boss as the one I once had. I doesn't matter whether it is a job in a corporation or in a state or private company. The most important thing is to have a leader who can create a team, motivate them to work and at the same time engender a positive atmosphere. My first boss was just such a person.

She used to bring a cheesecake to Christmas meetings – fluffy, dainty and always fine. She shared the recipe for this cake with me. Its quality depends most of all on the kind of cheese you use. It shouldn't be too sour and runny or you will make a beautiful ... sad layer. Our team doesn't exist anymore; its members have spread all over the world, but I still have the recipe. If I don't make any mistakes or don't forget that the cake is in the oven ;-), it always turns out great.

Ingredients:

1kg of white cottage cheese for cheesecake

250g of sugar

4 eggs

50g of vanilla sugar

1 vanilla blancmange (without sugar)

150g of butter

fistful of raisins

fistful of minced dried apricots

You can discover an interesting recipe for a tasty dish in the most unlikely places. Usually, I don't take advertising leaflets from the shops I visit. This time I took one and, among the tens of proposals for ideal gifts for him and her, I found some recipes for Christmas Eve dishes.

We like herrings regardless of how they are prepared or served, and so this time I have another interesting proposal. The original name for herrings with curry powder and raisins was "aunt Basia's herring". According to the recipe, you should leave the dish to rest in the fridge before serving. It doesn't taste so good if you eat it immediately after preparing it.

Ingredients:

200g of herrings in oil

2 onions

2 tablespoons of tomato concentrate

2 tablespoons of mayonnaise

1 bay leaf

3 allspices

3 tablespoons of oil

a fistful of raisins

salt and pepper

In the dim and distant past, children were scared of wolves, old coots or Buka from "Moominvalley". Today's children don't fear anything. Watching certain cartoons I wonder who they are made for. Bogeymen, monsters, dragons ... and I miss classic Polish characters like Bolek, Lolek and Reksio. What do you think: what are modern parents afraid of? Apart from extreme things, maybe they are afraid of ordinary white sugar? Sometimes, without reflection, we add it to tea or coffee. Today we look for sugar everywhere and in most products we find it.

Mostly we worry about our children, visualizing them in the future with tooth decay and being hugely overweight. We could completely ban sweets. We could propose one "sweet day" in the week. There are as many solutions as there are parents. Sometimes we and our children would like to have something sweet. It is probably easier for most of us in most cases if we go for chocolate. If we add dried fruits and nuts to the chocolate it will be go some way towards soothing our conscience. Therefore, it is my proposal for today. Please remember, however, that to protect our children against sugar you should not eat all of it by yourself.

Ingredients:

150 g of chocolate

20 g of pumpkin seeds

60 g of sunflower seeds

The question for today: What can be prepared with cold smoked salmon? In my fridge a tasty-looking fish quietly waits for its turn. I could put it on some bread with fresh cucumber or add it with eggs to a spinach salad but ... "it has already happened before". And it isn't true that it doesn't come back ;-). However, today it is time for something new. It is time to search for a new recipe. There's no doubt that whatever the results of this search, the salmon won't go uneaten.

This time the on-line Lidl cookery book came to my aid. I found a recipe for steak tartare with smoked salmon. It is not complicated and it is a very tasty dish. I think that it could be a proposal for fish for the Christmas Eve table, and for Christmassy traditionalists it could be a dish for supper on New Year's day.

Ingredients:

200g of cold smoked salmon

1 spring onion

3 dill pickles

6 pickled mushrooms

1 small teaspoon of horseradish

2 tablespoons of olive oil

1 tablespoon of soy sauce

1 tablespoon of minced dill

salt and pepper