Sweet Potato Meal Prep Bowls — 4 Ways
Same sweet potato, four different personalities. One batch-roast session on Sunday gives you four completely different meal prep bowls for the week — each with a different cuisine’s seasoning, a different protein, and a different topping profile. No boredom. No...
Miso Butter Kotlet Schabowy — Japanese-Polish Pork Cutlet
My babcia would be confused by the miso butter. But she’d eat three of these. I’m certain of it, because babcia could always sense when food was good, regardless of how foreign the ingredients were. She once tried kimchi at a Korean restaurant, made a...
Chicken Katsu Curry — Japan’s Crunchiest Comfort Food (Schabowy’s Cousin)
When I realised Japanese katsu and Polish schabowy are basically cousins, my brain exploded. Both are pounded meat cutlets, coated in flour-egg-breadcrumbs, and fried until golden. Poland and Japan, separated by 8,000 kilometres and approximately zero shared history,...
Homemade Churros — Crispy Cinnamon Sugar Perfection
I make the fried version when I’m feeling festive and the air fryer version when I’m feeling “responsible.” Both are excellent. Both get devoured in under ten minutes. The only difference is how I feel about myself afterward. Churros are fried...
Creamy Tomato Garlic Pasta — 20-Minute Pantry Dinner That Tastes Expensive
This went viral for a reason — it’s stupid easy and embarrassingly delicious. I feel like I should apologise to every complicated pasta recipe I’ve ever made, because this one takes 25 minutes, uses ingredients I always have in the pantry, and my kids...
Banana Bread With Hot Honey Glaze — The Upgrade Your Brown Bananas Deserve
The hot honey glaze was supposed to be optional. It is no longer optional. It is mandatory. I’ve been making banana bread for years — the kind every mom makes, using overripe bananas that nobody wanted to eat and enough brown sugar to make it worth the effort....
Chicken Tortilla Soup — Smoky, Spicy, Loaded With Toppings
This is my “it’s cold outside and I want something that fights back” soup. Chicken tortilla soup has warmth and attitude — smoky chipotle, fire-roasted tomatoes, cumin, and enough spice to make your nose run slightly, which is exactly what you need...10 Budget Dinners Under $10
I feed my family of six for $75 a week and nobody eats sad food. Babcia fed her family on kopeks during some of the leanest years in Poland, and she never served the same dish twice in a week. The frugality gene is real, and it’s alive in my kitchen. These 11...