Cold beet soup is the most summery soup which comes to my mind. It is light, refreshing, but it was not always so. Some time ago, this soup was prepared with bouillon, crawfish, veal or fish.

Yellow, green, red and black. This isn't a list of famous rainbow colours but of kinds of lentil. Each of them has a different taste and you can use them to prepare different dishes. I have already cooked red lentil soup. It was thick and delicious. This time I shall give you the recipe for green lentil soup. It is also tasty but completely different. My children said that it reminds them of pea soup a little.

Do you know who slimmed down Polish high-class cookery and when it happened? It was Paweł Tremo, the chef of king Stanisław August. One of the dishes he served on the royal table was onion soup. This extremely easy to prepare, exquisite and tasty dish could be a nice change on our own tables.

Do you know where the oldest fish farm in Continental Europe is? It's in Poland, near Częstochowa, on the edge of Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska in Złoty Potok. Here the crystal clear water of Elżbieta and Zygmunt sources have for decades flooded the ponds of Pstrągarnia. In the  middle of the XIX century, count Edward Raczyński decided to build a fish farm at the source of the Wiercica River.

Breton style beans is one of the most popular Polish dishes. Once it was even more popular, but it fell out of favour and came to be associated with the bachelor lifestyle. I think this is wrong because it's very tasty and easy to prepare. You just have to remember to soak the beans earlier.