Spaghetti is an easy dinner for me. It is quick, I always have the ingredients in my kitchen, and my family never complains. Life could not be any better. This dish has only one disadvantage. No matter how much I prepare, the whole dish is eaten and the next day I again have to rack my brains over what to prepare for dinner. But from time to time it is worth taking it easy. Even if you have to start from scratch the next day.

Today I would like to share with you the recipe for spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce. Although the dish looks different from traditional spaghetti Bolognese, it was accepted and eaten without complaint.

Ingredients:
spaghetti
500g of mincemeat
50g of barley groats
1 onion
1 egg
3 tablespoons of flour
2 tablespoons of oil
500ml of vegetable stock
750ml of passata
1 tablespoon of butter
2 cloves of garlic
chili pepper
1 teaspoon of rosemary
1 teaspoon of basil
1 teaspoon of thyme
salt and pepper

Christmas and New Year's Eve are only a memory. Warm spring days are still a long way away. From time to time it is nice to eat hot soup, which warms us up and lifts the mood. In the winter we should eat gherkins and sauerkraut, and the best are for example in salads. However, this time I would like to share with you the recipe for sauerkraut soup. I recommend adding some smoked bacon to the winter version. I don't like soups with cream or roux, so I didn't add them to the soup. If you like thick soup, add roux and spices according to your taste. In the light version don't add smoked bacon and roux, or replace them with boiled beans.

Ingredients:
300g of sauerkraut
300g of smoked bacon
3 carrots
2 parsley roots
a piece of celery root
6-8 potatoes
1 onion
2 tablespoons of butter
2 bay leaves
3 allspices
4 peppers
2 twigs of rosemary
salt and pepper

The rosefish is a predatory fish. It lives in the cold water of the north seas and in the Atlantic. Its meat has a small amount of fat and cholesterol. Until recently I had eaten only smoked rosefish. I like its white and quite dense meat. This time I bought fresh fish and decided to roast them in the oven.

The mild meat of the rosefish is excellent with grilled or roasted vegetables. I roasted them with potatoes and carrots. The next time I will serve them with salsa or a spicy, fruity sauce.

Ingredients:
4 rosefish
4 potatoes
4 carrots
1 stick of celery
2 pak chois
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 chili pepper
3 tablespoons of olive oil
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 teaspoon of thyme
1 teaspoon rosemary
4 teaspoons of butter
4 twigs of dill
salt and pepper

For years celery has been known as a cure for rheumatism, high blood pressure and is recommended as a roborant of the nervous system. Celery is one of the least calorific vegetables, so it is an ingredient for anyone who wants to lose weight. Additionally, celery contains almost twice as much ascorbic acid as citrus fruit, and it is a natural source of vitamin B, PP and folic acid. Celery has a lot of health-promoting features: it detoxifies, boosts the metabolic rate and reduces blood pressure. I use celery mainly for vegetable-fruit cocktails and salads. Celery root is an irreplaceable ingredient of my vegetable soups, and I sometimes prepare celery pate.

This time I used celery root for creamy soup with potato, leek and... apple. This last surprising ingredient makes the soup light and slightly fruity.

The recipe comes from www.jadlonomia.pl.

Ingredients:
1 big celery root
white part of a leek
1 potato
1 apple
2l of vegetable stock
250ml of milk
3-4 tablespoons of oil
2 bay leaves
1 allspice
½ teaspoon of marjoram
½ teaspoon of lovage
salt and pepper

We like spaghetti the most with tomato sauce. Recently, when I had to prepare spaghetti bolognese again, my love of this dish got a bit smaller. Eventually, even our most favourite meal may get boring. This time I enriched the classical Neapolitan sauce with some anchovies, capers and black olives. This way I prepared my version of spaghetti alla puttanesca. "Alla puttanesca" literally translates as "the way the prostitutes do it". The legend tells us that this Neapolitan dish was prepared by prostitutes for their customers to reenergise.

Regardless of this story, I recommend this dish to everybody who likes strong and nonobvious flavours. If you don't have spaghetti, serve this sauce with penne, bucatini or linguine.

Ingredients:
250g of spaghetti
1 tin of tomatoes
3-4 anchovies
3 cloves of garlic
1 onion
a fistful of black olives
a fistful of capers
1 tablespoon of oregano
chili pepper
1 tablespoon of butter
salt and pepper