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Fruit yeast cake
It’s probably one of the most standard homemade cakes in Poland, or at least it used to be. It’s pretty easy to pull off, but the yeast does need time to do its job. It’ll work with most fruits, like apples, pears, plums, etc. Plums are the most ‘classic’ variation.
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GF ChocolateCardamom Muffins
This is a riff on the granny’s chocolate cake as I needed a gluten-free side to the main cake for the evening. So I doubled up the cake recipe and set aside a third of everything but the flour aside for these. The recipe is re-calculated version of what was done on the day.
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Grandma’s Chocolate Cake
It’s originally known under different name, which I found somewhat controversial, so let it be known as ‘Grandma’s Chocolate Cake’. It’s one of those causal bakes that’s been done in the family forever. Quick and delicious
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Quick poppyseed cake
It’s one of my grandma’s recipes – very handy when you have excess of egg whites and no plans for meringue. It’s quick, simple and so far well-liked, not to mention the slightly unusual look once cut.
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Greek bake
It’s one of the recipes I just remember, and I think I learned it from a book some years back. It does lend itself to both scaling up and freezing, which makes it one of my staples. And I usually end up making way too much of it.
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Aubergine bhaji
This is one of my go-to aubergine recipes. It’s pretty quick and not too complex to execute. I can trace it back as ‘found online’ and adjusted since, but originally it hails from South India.
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Malabar murgh (chicken)
It’s one of the more elaborate recipes I know, learned from a friend from India. It hails from the southern coast, Malabar, hence the addition of coconut milk. It requires quite a few spices, but all of them should be east to get in most Asian stores.
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Gluten-free honey cake
A reasonably low fuss recipe which happens to use up honey that I had in abundance. This variety is gluten-free, but since it uses generic flour replacement it should work well with regular flour. The recipe is based on the Rosh Hashanah honey cake.
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Keralan Fish Curry
It’s a pretty simple curry I learned a recipe for in Cochin, Kerala in India. It does come out rather spicy, so do adjust the amount of chilli as desired