Agnieszka, organized all the pretty decoration and 2 really delicious dishes: chicory with goat cheese, walnuts and home made caramel, and a herring and dried plum salad, that really made this lunch taste like Christmas dinner to me.
I made a winter fruit salad with dried apricots, figs and fresh pears, apples and pomegranate in vanilla-lemon-anise syrup, which turned out to be really yummi and fit well on the Christmas table. Find the recipe here.
Marie-Emily brought all different types of cheese, these in the front are Camembert and Brie, that have absolutetly nothing to do with the ones sold in Poland under the same name. These here are a lot more mature, intense and really delicious. Altough I'm afraid they wouldn't yet be appreciated by the statistical Kowalski...
The jar in the back of the table is foie-gras, home made by the family of Agathe, a colleague from the lab. It tastes like a paté, altough is a lot more delicate. I tasted once, put a 'tak' on my list of things I wanted to try, and honestly - don't think I'll ever come back to it again..
I made an attempt to prepare a polish Christmas soup - barszcz. It looked really promising during it's preparation, but the illusion ended after adding the spices: I couldn't find any from the original polish recipe, so I decided to add some random ones that I found in the nearest supermarket. The result was far from satisfactory - it tasted like leftover water after pickles mixed with overboiled carrots.. :)
I spared my labmates the effort to make a happy face while tasting it and spilled it all in my sink.
It was hard to come back to my experiments after all those goodies and a couple of glasses of wine. And with all the excess food we prepared it looks like the lunches will have to repeat in the following days :)
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