Spaghetti à la Jack

Hi!

Recipes coming back. More: coming back in great style because today I gonna show you my favourite ( ok, one of favourites ) dish, that can be made in 25 minutes and will satisfy family, guests, neighborhoods: everybody who visit you unexpected and hungry.

Spaghetti à la Jack*

* not uncle from gens, but uncle in my life

Ingredients

3 spoons of olive oil

3 cloves of garlic

an italian ham

2 - 3 spoons of unsalted peanuts 

tomatoes in can

spaghetti

shredded Parmesan cheese

a bunch of fresh basil

salt, spices

Peel and cut into quarters cloves of garlic. 

Put a frying pan on a medium heat and add 3 tablespoons of olive oil, then add the garlic. Fry it for a moment. 

Cut the ham into small squares, then add them and peanuts to the olive and garlic.

 Cook it for a while.

Next add the tomatoes in can. Season with a of salt, spices; then continue cooking for around 10 - 15 minutes.

Meanwhile boil the water for spaghetti and cook it according to the instruction on the package.

At the and sprinkle with shredded Parmesan cheese and basil leaves over the top.

Bon Appetit!

(photos soon)

~Emilka

No ideas for the lunch?

Good morning :)

This post will be probably the biggest product placement on this blog. So: no, nobody paid me for this and no, I didn't get anything from my sponsor ;) I only want to show you place that is very important for me  (although it exist only 2 months), because is conducted by my...uncle, the biggest enthusiast of cooking in my family.

,,Smaki Roślinne" is a bar in the center of Cracow (Zwierzyniecka 8). My uncle is a vegan, so we can eat here only vegan dishes. What does it mean? Vegan is something like "next level" from vegetarian:

Vegans doesn't eat all products of animal origin: not only meat and fish, but also milk, eggs, honey etc.

,,So what they eat?" you can ask. For example: groats, tofu, soy milk and, of course, fruits and vegetables.

  

Sample menu: soup with broccoli and spinach, "goulash" with lentil and buckwheat, curry vegetables. What about dessert? Brownie or vanilla tart from "soy pudding". And reasonable prices: soups for 9, main dishes for 12 and sweets for 7 zloty.

                 But there's one minus: only 5 seats. However, we can get all dishes takeaway ;)

 So see you there!

~Emilka

Our 10 favourite of ... books!

Hi there!

As you can at the right, we organised recently a little questionnaire about our new cycle. But what actually we plan to do?  ,,Our 10 favourite of..." could allow us to be as as we can to you ( and maybe other readers ;] ). You will see what we have in our heads so it must be interesting ( and little bit scary) and we hope that you'll create this cycle with us.

Ok, let's start with something easy... No, I'm kidding. Did you ever try to imagine all of books that you read and choose only 10 of them? 

Hard work.

Lila

WINNER: Out of concours: All of One Direction biographies (Individual too. Especially "Niall Horan. Biography" by Danny White)

1. "The raven boys" - Maggie Stiefvater 

 2. "The dream thieves" - Maggie Stiefvater

4. "Blue Lily, Lily blue" - Maggie Stiefvater

2. "Tokyo Ghoul" - Sui Ishida

5."Fablehaven" - Brandon Mull

6. "Starters" - Lissa Price

   "Enders" - Lissa Price

7. "Tatami kontra krzesła. O Japończykach i Japonii" Rafał Tomański

8. "Bezsenność w Tokio" - Marcin Bruczkowski

9. "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" - Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

10."Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher" - Walter Moers 

  

 
 
  

Emilka

1. ,,Lord of the Rings" (trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien

2. ,,Harry Potter" (7 books) -  J.K. Rowling

3. ,,Wiedźmin" (5 books) - Andrzej Sapkowski

4. ,,Eragon" (trilogy) - Christopher Paoilini

5. ,,Ender's game" Orson Scott Card

6. ,,Sherlock Holmes" (for example ,,A Study in Scarlet", ,,The Sign of the Four")  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Agatha Christie's crime stories (especially ,,And Then There Were None")
8. ,,Hobbit" - J.R.R. Tolkien
9. ,,The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" - Clive Staples Lewis
10. ,,The Hunger Games" (trilogy) - Suzanne Collins

  

  

  

Now share with us your "TOP 10" ;D

~Emilka

FASHIONable in Comunist Poland - exhibition in MNK

"FASHION is an art discipline in which everybody can be an artist"

- 

  Janina Ipohorska (Jan Kamyczek)

      From 19 December 2015 to 17 April 2016, the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow will hold an exhibition titled FASHIONable in Communist Poland which reflects the unique character of fashion in the post-war decades. It features both casual, everyday clothing and creations by prominent designers who worked in Poland in the years 1945-1989.

      The exhibition co-organised by tne National Museum in Kraków and National Museum in Wrocław shows how difficult and important was the Polish women's pursuit of fashion in communist Poland. It was often a for of escapism from the drab reality of life.  Women wanted to be 'FASHIONable', although the grim reality of empty store shelves did not make it easy. Dozens of items of clothing displayed at the exhibition testify to the creativity and entrepreneurship of the female residents of the Polish People's Republic. Today, these two traits are associated primarily with businesswomen or celebrities, whereas our mothers and grandmothers had to demonstrate them every day. 

      Today's 'old-school'-themed parties and experimenting with vintage clothes introduce the objects from the past to the present fashion bloodstream and endow them with current meaning.

      Today's 'old-school'-themed parties and experimenting with vintage clothes introduce the objects from the past to the present fashion bloodstream and endow them with current meaning.

        We really recommend it to you after seeing it.

Visitors could also see projects of clothes.

Lila and Emilka

Let's twist again!

      Fashion of 60's was one of the most colourful time (the most fashionable colours were beiges but womens loved also connections of black and white). New (but simple) forms were on the top. Elements which are characteristic for this time are dresses, short jackets, coats, womens suit's and minis. Geometric patterns were on every skirt and every dress tailored to the shape "A". Fashionable shoes were low-heeled shoes or flat soled. That's why this is one of my favourite time in fashion. Real icons of this time like Twiggy (real name: Lesley Lawson) or Audrey Hepburn (her film "Roman holiday" 1953) and photo session in November number of HOT with Julia Kamińska inspired me to prepare this post for me and You.

      N°1

Dress: ZARA
Shoes: ZARA
Bag: ZARA
Bow-tie: STRADIVARIUS

      N°2

Skirt: ZARA
Sweater: ZARA
Shoes: ZARA
Scarf: ZARA

      Making of and preparing this post gave me a lot of fun and satisfaction! 
Lila