Category Archives: Yogurt

My miserable youth was filled with this cucumber dish

February 20, 2016 by Food Polka

As I started exploring my Polish food memories, there was a moment when I realized many Polish dish names have pretty negative associations. Let’s take “Mizeria”, a simple dinner side dish, which basically translates to “Misery”. Mizeria consists of two main ingredients. Sour cream and green cucumbers. That’s it. The sour cream was sometimes swapped for similar dairy products like kefir, buttermilk or yogurt, if they were available. Or some people used heavy cream instead. To add a boost of […]

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Categories: Apetizer, California Cuisine, Cucumbers, Culinary Writing, Diary Product, Dill, Dinner, Editorial, Food Art, Food Photography, Food Styling, Garlic, Lemon, Lunch, Polish Cuisine, Potatoes, Published by Marta Fowlie, Recipe Development, Resourceful Cooking, Salad, Snack, Vegeterian, Yogurt, Yogurt • Tags: creative food stylist los angeles, dressing made from scratch, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist los angeles, green cucumber recipe, helathy salad, home made dressing, lean cuisine, light food, persian cucumbers, personal chef LA, pickling cucumbers, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, refreshement

Brownie recipe that I love and so will your loved one

February 9, 2016 by Food Polka

Have you ever thought? Here we go again. Another year, another Valentines Day? Another dilemma! What should I do with her? What should I do for him? Well, I am telling you, I have been there. I have also been there to help others out; as a personal chef. Besides offering a private intimate, sensual Valentine’s Day dinner for your beloved one, I can also offer simple ideas that you can execute on your own. There is a lot truth […]

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Categories: American Cuisine, Butter, Cake, Chocolate, Cookies, Cooking Classes, Culinary Writing, Dark Chocolate, Dessert, Editorial, Eggs, Food Art, Food Photography, Food Styling, Holidays, Lunch, Mango, Marta Fowlie, Marta Smolczewska, Mint, Oranges, Privet Chef Events, Published by Marta Fowlie, Published by Marta Fowlie, Recipe Development, Salt, Snack, Strawberries, Valentine's Day, Vegeterian, Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Yogurt • Tags: brownie, Chocolate, creative food stylist los angeles, food art, food photographer los angeles, food photography, food styling, food styling los angeles, food stylist los angeles, food visuals, fudge, midcentury food, personal chef LA, privet chef in LA, privet chef los angeles, published by Marta Fowlie, tea cookies, Valentine's Day, valentines day dessert, valentines day dinner in la, valentines day idea, valentines day recipe

The springtime dinner a’la Food Polka

June 10, 2015 by Food Polka

What the springtime in Poland tastes like? It tastes like a new vegetable garden. It tastes like tiny, creamy new potatoes boiled with the skin on, tossed in fresh butter or buttermilk and topped with fried, runny yolk egg. It tastes like fresh, chopped dill. It tastes like miniature, pale but the sweetest baby carrots and fresh green pea. This is the only time of the year when you can get all these flavors and combine them into one dinner […]

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Categories: Breakfast, Butter, Carrots, Communism, Culinary Writing, Dill, Dinner, Eggs, Food Photography, Food Styling, Green Pea, Lunch, Marta Fowlie, Marta Smolczewska, Polish Cuisine, Potatoes, Published by Marta Fowlie, Vegetarian, Vegeterian, Yogurt • Tags: art director, baby potatoes recipe, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, healthy breakfast, kuchnia polska w USA, memory of communism in poland, personal chef LA, polisg spiring dinner, polish food, polish immigrants, Polish immigrants in US, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, springtime dinner

Rise and shine. Try this 5 minutes strawberry filled breakfast recipe

April 22, 2015 by Food Polka

Short on time and breakfast ideas? Put down the oatmeal and get it twisted with this quick and easy strawberry breakfast recipe. Lock pure health, nutrition and deliciousness in your favorite breakfast bowl in less than 5 minutes. Brew some coffee. And… if you are lucky like myself garnish it with two four-leaf clovers. Quick strawberry-oatmeal breakfast Shopping List: 1 lb strawberries (stems removed) 1 tsp maple syrup 2 tsp chia seeds ½ cup oatmeal (preferably old fashioned) ¼ cup […]

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Categories: Breakfast, California Cuisine, Chia, Dessert, Food Photography, Food Styling, Grains, Maple Syrup, Oatmeal, Published by Marta Fowlie, Sauce, Snack, Strawberries, Vegetarian, Vegeterian, Yogurt • Tags: art director, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, easy breakfast, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, healthy breakfast, personal chef LA, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, quick breakfast, quick oatmeal

Whip it, whip it good. The fruit, the milk and the yogurt all together

March 19, 2015 by Food Polka

Just as the Devo’s song sings: I say whip it, Whip it good. Don’t be afraid to whip it. And I mean your breakfast. The fruit, the milk and the yogurt all together. Whip it good. And then as Michael Jackson sings: Open up your mouth and eat it! Blueberry Whipped Yogurt Shopping List (serves 1): 1 cup blueberries 2/3 cup soy milk (preferably organic) 1 tbs maple syrup 1 cup natural, whole milk yogurt Chia seeds (optional) Now follow […]

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Categories: Breakfast, California Cuisine, Dessert, Food Photography, Food Styling, Published by Marta Fowlie, Snack, Soy Milk, Vegeterian, Yogurt, Yogurt • Tags: art director, breakfast whip, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, diet springbreak cocktail, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, helathy reakfast, personal chef LA, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, quick brekfast idea, refreshement

Shed the winter lbs with this garden salad recipe

March 7, 2015 by Food Polka

Seasons are changing and clothes are getting shorter and tighter. Many ladies have been hiding from the snow under a big cashmere sweater with a big bowl of takeout. It’s time to get our Summer bodies back and it’s totally possible by just eating clean! Here’s a simple garden salad recipe with an easy dressing made from scratch. Let’s get back on our healthy grinds during the weekend, not after. Garden salad with avocado and wasabi dressing Shopping List (serves […]

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Categories: Apetizer, Avocado, California Cuisine, Cilantro, Cucumbers, Diary Product, Eggs, Green Onions, Lemon, Lettuce, Lime, Lunch, Mint, Olive Oil, Published by Marta Fowlie, Radish, Romain Lettuce, Salad, Snack, Tomatoes, Vegan, Vegeterian, Wasabi, Yogurt • Tags: art director, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, dressing made from scratch, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, helathy salad, home made dressing, lean cuisine, light food, personal chef LA, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, refreshement

If you like Piña Colada… have one for breakfast… with oatmeal

February 18, 2015 by Food Polka

We think old fashioned oatmeal is simply out of style. Your quick breakfast oatmeal doesn’t have to be boring and flavorless. Just a few simple and practical ingredients can make your morning oatmeal taste like a million bucks, or like a fancy beach-time cocktail. Here is a recipe that I made up once and named it “Piña Colada Oatmeal”. It will take that tropical drink you love so much and add the same exotic goodness to your morning routine. And […]

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Categories: Breakfast, Brown Cane Sugar, California Cuisine, Coconut, Coconut Milk, Culinary Writing, Dessert, Food Photography, Food Styling, Fruits, Grains, Marta Fowlie, Oatmeal, Pineapple, Privet Chef Events, Published by Galore Mag, Published by Marta Fowlie, Recipe Development, Vegetarian, Yogurt • Tags: art director, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, exotic oatmeal, fiberloaded breakfast, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food photography, food styling, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, healthy breakfast, personal chef LA, pina colada breakfast, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie, unusual oatmeal recipe

Navels + 81 Fahrenheit = Orange Pancakes and Christmas in SoCal

December 27, 2013 by Food Polka

So, it’s a day after Christmas. While a lot of the world is suffering in the miserable cold, I am hanging out on my terrace drinking coffee, wearing tank top and shorts. Sure I have Jack burrowing into my lap. Sometimes I really can’t believe where I live. Back Warsaw its 38 degrees. Here in Signal Hill it never gets that cold, it never snows. The worse we get is a little rain and a slight chill. And what’s more […]

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Categories: American Cuisine, Breakfast, Butter, California Cuisine, Christmas, Communism, Cottage Cheese, Dessert, Eggs, Farmer's Cheese, Flax, Food Styling, Fruits, Grains, Herbs, Holidays, Lunch, Mint, Oatmeal, Oranges, Pancakes, Pancakes, Polish Cuisine, Queso Fresco, Resourceful Cooking, Tarragon, Vegetarian, Yogurt • Tags: art director, breakfast, Christmas, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, holiday, marta fowlie, marta smolczewska, navel, oranges, pancakes, Polish chef, polish christmas story, polish cooking, polish immigrants, published by Marta Fowlie, resourceful cooking, socal

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