In Warsaw if I want fish I most often buy salmon. I prepare it fried, baked or steamed, and sometimes when I want a smaller portion, I add different things and make fish balls. My children eat all these dishes very quickly. Lately, because of Children's Day, I made salmon in lemon sauce. To this day it is the winner in the "fish dish" category. Recently, it has a new challenger. Lemon salmon in caper sauce with broccoli puree amazed my family. I recommend this dish, because it looks beautiful and it tastes even better.

Ingredients (for 4 people)
salmon
600g of salmon with the skin
1 tablespoon of clarified butter
12 slices of lemon
lemon pepper, dried dill and salt
Clean the salmon, spice it up with some lemon pepper, dried dill and salt. Leave in the fridge for one hour. Melt the butter in a pan, put two slices of the lemon into it, and put the pieces of salmon onto the lemon. Put another slice of lemon on each piece of salmon. Fry the fish.

caper sauce
3 tablespoons of capers
150ml of 30% sweet cream
1 teaspoon of mustard
1 tablespoon of butter
1 tablespoon of chopped chives
salt and pepper

Making use of the last days of the strawberry season, I prepared a quick lemon cake with this fruit. The weekend can't be without any dessert, and there is nothing better than fresh homemade cake that smells wonderful and you want to eat it all at once. Sometimes I have to make an effort to hide it from the dessert monsters in my house, to make sure they will eat it for dessert and not as a main course. It is a pity that the season for fresh fruit is ending. We have to wait another few months for more gifts from our gardens.

Ingredients:
210g of flour
120g of brown sugar
80ml of oil
250ml of milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of lemon peel
1 teaspoon of baking powder
a couple of strawberries
caster sugar

The store shelves are full of many varieties of tomatoes. I like the fleshy and sweet "raspberry" tomatoes, but I also buy other kinds. They look beautiful on the plate or in salads and sandwiches, and each variety tastes a bit different. Today I would like to share with you the recipe for tomato carpaccio. This glamourous and very yummy dish is made with simple ingredients: tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese, but you have to admit this salad is special.
The idea comes from the newspaper "Moje gotowanie" ("My cooking").

Ingredients:
3 different types of tomatoes
100g of feta cheese
2 tablespoons of olive oil
basil
salt and pepper
olive tapenade
50g of pitted black olives
1 clove of garlic
a couple of almonds
a piece of chili pepper
2 tablespoons of chopped parsley
2 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper

Tabboulleh is also known as Lebanese salad and is a classical Middle Eastern dish. Customarily it is made with bulgur and diced vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, garlic and pepper. This salad is spiced with salt, pepper, lemon juice and chopped parsley and peppermint.

Today I would like to share with you my recipe for tabbouleh. I used quinoa instead of bulgur. I also added avocado and a bit of chili pepper. Lebanese salad is an excellent dish for a hot day. It is great just after preparing and on the next day you can take it on a trip or for lunch at work.

Ingredients (for 2 people)
100g of quinoa
1 avocado
1 red pepper
2 tomatoes
3 small fresh cucumbers
1 shallot
1 clove of garlic
half a chili pepper
2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice
2 tablespoons of chopped chives, peppermint, parsley and basil
salt and pepper

In the summer the ripe fruit on the trees is begging to be picked and eaten. It is full of sun and tastes so excellent that I'm sorry the season for fresh fruit is so short in Poland. It is impossible to try everything, and frozen fruit isn't nearly so yummy. That was my reflection when I recently bought some fruit at the market. The season for fruit changes fast. Recently I bought strawberries and cherries. I hadn't had time to get enough of them before apricots and peaches appeared, and in a few days I will buy plums, apples and pears. And then I will have to wait another year for the first strawberries, raspberries and wild strawberries. Today I would like to share with you the recipe for striped cake with beautiful, sweet apricots. It looks as great as it tastes.

Ingredients:
210g of flour
120g of brown sugar
80ml of oil
250ml of milk
1 tablespoon of cocoa
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of apple vinegar
a couple of apricots