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Buckwheat Breaded Pork Schnitzel as Guiltless Pleasure 🐖

February 25, 2016 by Food Polka

The Pole’s relationship with pork chops is like the Americans’ relationship with steak. Although I love steak 🥩, I also love pork 🐖. After 25 years of Polish Pork Cuisine, pork has become an integral part of my diet. Sometimes when I get cravings for the old times and Slavic-Germanic culinary tradition, I make a simple pork schnitzel accompanied by potatoes and dill. When the spirit of California speaks to me, and I want a healthier version, I make a pork schnitzel… breaded in buckwheat flour. Here is a recipe for […]

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Categories: Black Pepper, Buckwheat Flour, Culinary Writing, Dinner, Eggs, Food Photography, Food Styling, German Cuisine, Lunch, Marta Fowlie, Marta Smolczewska, Polish Cuisine, Pork, Pork Loin, Published by Marta Fowlie, Recipe Development, Salt, Spices, Vegetables • Tags: breaded pork, buckwheat batter, buckwheat bredding, buckwheat pork, creative food stylist los angeles, dinner meal, dinner meat, egg batter, food photographer los angeles, food styling los angeles, food stylist los angeles, German Cuisine, jajka, kotlet schabowy, meat, polish cooking, Polish cuisine, Pork, pork cutlet, pork loin polish style, pork schnitzel, published by Marta Fowlie, schabowy

Brownie Cakes 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 Valentine’s 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 of […]

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The springtime dinner ala Food Polka

June 10, 2015 by Food Polka

What the springtime in Poland taste 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 peas. 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, recipe develoer los angeles, Recipe Development, springtime dinner

The Perfect Soft-Boiled Egg Recipe + Breakfast Memory 🥚🍀

May 22, 2015 by Food Polka

When I was a little kid, growing up in communist Poland, we didn’t have Cheerios for breakfast. Cornflakes were hardly ever available. We usually ate open-face sandwiches of some kind. Sometimes we had oatmeal or semolina with hot milk, which I hated. Eggs were on the menu as well. Usually scrambled or soft-boiled. The soft-boiled egg is the most sentimental memory of my childhood breakfast. Perhaps because its eating involved using a special, little egg holder cup. In that time […]

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Pomegrante chocolates for Happy Mother’s Day and any other occasion

May 10, 2015 by Food Polka

Dark chocolate is full of sophisticated flavor. Personally, the darker the better. I love dark chocolate with a cocoa content of over 70% combined with fresh fruits. They bring its taste to a completely new level. I particularly love dark chocolate with pomegranate. The unforgettable sensation of juicy, refreshing, sweet, and sour pomegranate seeds bursting in the middle of bittersweet, dense chocolate is my favorite. These two different flavors and textures are a sweet craving revelation. When we add some fresh, […]

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Categories: Chocolate, Coffee, Culinary Writing, Dark Chocolate, Dessert, Food Photography, Food Styling, Marta Fowlie, Marta Smolczewska, Mother's Day, Pomegranate, Privet Chef Events, Published by Marta Fowlie, Recipe Development, Spices, Vegetarian • Tags: aphrodisiac food, aphrodisiac ingredients based dessert, art director, creative director, creative food stylist los angeles, cute dessert idea, cute gift idea, edible gift, food photographer, food photographer los angeles, food photography, food styling, food styling los angeles, food stylist, food stylist los angeles, mother's day, personal chef LA, privet chef in LA, published by Marta Fowlie

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When life gives you carrots 🥕 you make carrot chips

February 24, 2015 by Food Polka

So, I open up the fridge. I look inside. I see carrots. A large bag of beautiful, organic carrots of many colors. They look like a million bucks, but they only cost $2. What do you do when life gives you carrots? You make carrot chips 🥕 Roasted Carrot Snack Shopping List: Now follow these steps: Enjoy 🥕 Carrot Chips! Have a Project in need of a Recipe Developer or Food Stylist? GET in TOUCH 📞

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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 pineapple oatmeal recipe that I made up once and named “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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Play with your sweetheart and your cake this Valentine’s Day 💗

February 12, 2015 by Food Polka

Just as you would play with your sweetheart, you should play with your dessert! This V-Day, your dessert must consist of an aphrodisiac. Which one is my favorite? Pomegranate! According to common knowledge, many other fruits serve as aphrodisiacs. If you want to make the magic happen, the list of fruits goes on and on: strawberries, cherries, watermelon, bananas, and more. Let your imagination run wild, and use them in whichever way you desire. Just bake your favorite dessert and […]

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Double Dip allowed. Chocolaty aphrodisiac fruit dessert

February 11, 2015 by Food Polka

Valentine’s Day is a perfect occasion for dipping aphrodisiac fruit in rich, velvety chocolate that itself is an aphrodisiac. Cut aphrodisiac fruits into shapes that only your imagination can deliver. Put them on the skewer. Hold them with your fingertips by the stem. Dip the fruit inside that warm pot, full of velvety, chocolate. Pamper your lip and mouth with it. Let your tongue feel it when it’s still warm. To add more spice to your dessert and make it […]