Looking for ideas for dinner, I happened upon an article by Bartosz Kieżun on www.kukbuk.pl. Because I love Italian cuisine and pasta dishes, I read this text with interest. As a bonus I got a recipe for Sicilian pasta with pistachios, which I decided to try immediately. With Italian cuisine I like the simplicity and extracting the maximum flavour with a combination of basic ingredients. My one condition is that I have to use the best quality ingredients.

Today I would like to share with you a simple recipe: just a few ingredients and in a moment we have a yummy dish. That's obvious with pasta and sometimes it is the most important thing. Today I used bucatini, but if you don't have any you can use spaghetti.

Ingredients (for 2 people)
200g of bucatini
2 cloves of garlic
200g of ricotta cheese
half a chili pepper
100g of pistachios
4 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper
basil

I have always liked yeasty cakes. It is interesting that it isn't very fresh. I like them slightly stale with butter or jam the most. It simply must be accompanied by strong tea without sugar.

When I can I always buy yeasty buns caller "rwańce" in my favourite bakery. They are sprinkled with sugar. Today I made my own yeasty buns. For a change and with sentiment I prepared a vanilla crumble topping. Just a few years ago my mum made the same.

Ingredients:
350g of flour
4g of instant yeast
175ml of milk
40g of butter
75g of sugar
a pinch of salt
crumble topping
25g of butter
50g of flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
30g of caster sugar

At the end of the winter holiday we were ill. Not all together, because then we would have had a problem. Fortunately, at least one of us was always fit. Today is the last day of my illness. I hope so anyway, because I don't know how to be ill. I'm not be able to stay in bed, and getting stronger tires me out terribly.

I couldn't stand the laziness any longer, so I prepared a small carrot-nut torte. I recommend baking the carrot cake a day before, so that you can cut it easily. A hint of lemon and salty pistachios go really well with the sweet chocolate-nut carrot cake. The torte doesn't have to look perfect. Everybody - even those who could burn water - can prepare it.

Ingredients (22-cm cake tin)
cake
1 egg
2 tablespoons of peanut butter
125ml of oil
150g of flour
100ml of milk
100g of grated carrot
150g of sugar
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of baking powder
100g of chocolate drops

Until recently I have eaten cauliflower in pancakes, as a side dish or in soup. Today, for the first and definitely not the last time I prepared a quick lunch dish with roast cauliflower.

This dish is exactly what I like best: it is quick, easy to prepare and it doesn't have any sophisticated ingredients. You need only rub a cauliflower with seasoning, roast it, sprinkle it with parsley and after 40 minutes you have a delicious, filling dish. The added chickpeas make this an ideal dish for vegetarians.

The recipe for this dish comes from http://www.jadlonomia.com.

Ingredients:
1/2 cauliflower
1 tin of chickpeas
a couple of cherry tomatoes
chopped parsley
sauce:
2 – 3 tablespoons of oil
1 teaspoon of soya sauce
1/2 teaspoon of powdered sweet paprika
1/3 teaspoon of powdered coriander seeds
1 teaspoon of maple syrup
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper

When baking cookies and cakes I like the aroma the most. I like the fruity aroma when I make plum cake or apple pie, the caramel aroma when I have cookies in the oven, but most of all I like the chocolatey aroma of brownies. Such an intoxicating aroma filled my home when I recently baked chocolate cookies. The delightful smell even lured my book-loving daughter from her room.

Small and light cookies were the ingredients of home-made cookie sandwiches with chocolate-nut cream and pistachios. I didn't manage to fill all the cookies with cream. Some of them were eaten just after baking. To tell the truth I wasn't surprised – they were really excellent.

Ingredients:
cookies
60g of butter
1 tin of aquafaba
150g of dark chocolate
100g of caster sugar
120g of flour
½ teaspoon of baking powder
50g of chocolate dots
creme
100g of white chocolate
120g of peanut butter
a pinch of salt