It's Cooking With Magda

Tropical Fruit Salad with Coconut Meringues

May 7, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Tropical Fruit Salad with cute, heart-shaped coconut meringues will be a perfect addition to Mother’s Day brunch! A Mother’s Love A Mother’s love is something That no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion And of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish And enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it Or take that love away… It is patient and forgiving When all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters Even though the […]

Categories: Mother's Day, Snack Time, Special occasion • Tags: brunch, coconut, fruit, meringue, Mother's Day, salad

Artichoke and Smoked Salmon Quiche

May 6, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Celebrate this upcoming Mother’s Day with your loved ones and some delicious food. This quiche can be made ahead of time so the special day can be work-free! Mother’s Day is approaching fast and I wanted to have something special on my blog. I was going back and forth between the classics like pancakes or waffles made with some twist or something less traditional. I decided to go with this quiche because it a) is scrumptious, b) can be made […]

Categories: Breakfast, Mother's Day, Special occasion • Tags: brunch, dill, food photography, Mother's Day, quiche, smoked salmon

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bread

May 3, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

This Chocolate Peanut Butter bread is scrumptious and easy to make. Buckwheat flour makes it gluten free. I have been super busy recently with the end-of-school year activities, including the Walk-a-Thon, annual Art Vista Show and some field trips. As I mentioned previously, I was an Art Vista docent (teaching a hands-on art lesson monthly) in both of my sons’ classes. It is rather amusing that I agreed to do it considering I’m really bad at drawing or any other […]

Categories: Breakfast, Snack Time • Tags: bananas, buckwheat flour, gluten free, peanut butter

Baked Butternut Squash Cakes with Curry, Mint and Raisins

April 20, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

This is a great way to serve butternut squash as these small, baked cakes deliver a lot of flavor and fiber, too! Greetings from a very hot California. We have been reaching about 90 degrees for the past 3 days and we are definitely ready for some cooling off. My gardening is on hold because it’s no fun to plant anything when it’s so hot (although my hubby braved the heat and did a lot of digging and soil turning […]

Categories: Dinner, vegetarian • Tags: butternut squash, curry, healthy, raisins, vegetarian

pad thai with carrots, zucchini, mushrooms and pepper

Pad Thai with Vegetables

April 13, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Try this refreshing and delicious take on Pad Thai. Plenty of vegetables, some crunch and authentic flavor. We are back from our short Spring Break trip. We went to Yosemite National Park again because we love it there! We always stay in Groveland where we rent a cabin. Groveland is only 3 hours away from San Jose and about 25 miles from the entrance to Yosemite. The population in Groveland is about 600 people, and there are not that many […]

Categories: Dinner • Tags: healthy, pad thai, spices, vegetables, vegetarian

Ribollita, bread and vegetable soup

April 5, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Fans of hearty soups, you are going to love this one! It’s a variety of vegetables cooked together and then baked with bread and lots of cheese. As you might have noticed by now I love Italian food! Just like millions of people. With so many pizza and pasta recipes out there, I wanted to find something more unusual to blog about. So, I got very excited when I came across this soup recipe in one of my Williams-Sonoma cookbooks. It […]

Categories: Dinner, Soups • Tags: bread, herbs, parmesan cheese, soup, vegetables, vegetarian

Easter Deviled Eggs

March 24, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Possibilities for deviled eggs are endless and here are my two picks for Easter brunch.Easter in Poland is always a two-day holiday with several days of preparation leading to it. From the Catholic Church’s point of view, Easter is more important than Christmas because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. To prepare for Easter many people observe Lent, a 40 days period of fasting, reflection and prayer. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday, where priests make a cross sign on people’s foreheads […]

Categories: Easter, Side Dishes • Tags: brunch, Easter, eggs, tradition

Pork Tacos with Mango Salsa

March 9, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

Whether it’s Tuesday or Saturday, these Pork Tacos with Mango Salsa will be very popular in your house. We are only a few short weeks away from the beginning of spring, and summer vacation starts in 3 (!) months. But with both kids getting pneumonia one after the other I’m focusing on today and helping Ian get better soon. We are hoping that the new medication will be effective and the fever and cough will go away. Staying home second […]

Categories: Dinner • Tags: cumin, honey, lime, mango salsa, pork tenderloin, slow cooker, Taco Tuesday

Lemon Ricotta Cookies

March 3, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

These Lemon Ricotta Cookies are light and fluffy like a cake. The lemon glaze compliments and enriches the lemon flavor. Delightfull! Several years ago Giada De Laurentiis was visiting San Jose while promoting her newest cookbook “Giada’s Kitchen”. Back then, our older son was maybe 7-8 months old and I was on my way to meet with some friends, almost all of them new moms, too. We met through our husbands, who were all working at Yahoo! at that time and […]

Categories: Cookies, Dessert • Tags: cookies, glaze, lemon, ricotta cheese, zest

baked white pizza with ricotta cheese, pear, red onion and arugula

White Pizza with Ricotta Cheese, Jalapeno, Pear and Arugula

February 27, 2016 by It's Cooking With Magda

This pizza has it all: thin crust and lots of flavors: savory, sweet and spicy. You are going to love it! The weekend is here! It looks like it will be a busy one for us with some birthday parties to attend. It was a busy week, too. I volunteer at my boys’ school quite a bit and in addition to the regular hours there I also teach Art Vista classes. It is an art program that includes a short […]

Categories: Dinner • Tags: arugula, bread flour, herbs, honey, jalapeno, pear, pizza, ricotta cheese, yeast

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