To prepare nutritious and delicious meals, it’s essential to choose quality ingredients and handle them properly. Here are some tips on how to do just that.
How can you tell good-quality products from poor ones? Let’s take a look at two fish lying side by side. One has bright red gills, clean and shiny scales, bulging and clear eyes, and a firm belly. This fish is absolutely fresh. The other has brown gills, sunken cloudy eyes, a soft belly, scales covered in slime, some of which have fallen of…

Ingredients:
For a 24-36 cm (9.5-14 inches) baking dish
Dough:

1.5 packages of margarine
2 tablespoons of sour cream
7 egg yolks
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1.5 tablespoons of vodka
Flour, as needed

Filling:

7 egg whites
7 tablespoons of sugar
3 packets of cherry jelly (Polish, powdered)
Apples

Frosting:
Your choice of any white frosting.
Start by cutting the margarine into the flour. Add the whipped egg yolks mixed with sour cream, vodka, and baking powder. Quickly knead the dough until i…

Ingredients:
6 medium potatoes
2 tablespoons of oil
1 teaspoon of potato seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash the potatoes thoroughly and boil them with their skins on.
Once cooked, place the hot potatoes on a baking sheet lightly greased with oil (you can use foil if you prefer).
Using a potato masher, gently crush each potato until they crack open.
Remove any skin that may be on top.
Mix the oil with the seasoning (I used the potato seasoning from Kamis).
Generously brush each potato with …

Archaeology boasts a variety of methods for dating ancient artifacts. Items made from organic materials—like wooden utensils, canvases, and leather goods—can be analyzed using carbon-14 dating.
But what about a shard from a porcelain jug or a piece of glass? In these cases, carbon dating falls short.
It turns out that simply heating the samples can reveal their age based on the light they emit. Ceramic and glass objects contain tiny particles of radioactive substances. Over time, free electro…

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In his time, Scott, the renowned polar explorer, prepared meticulously for his expedition to the South Pole. He accounted for everything: the icy silence of Antarctica, hurricane-force winds, and unprecedented freezing temperatures. He considered the challenges of navigating this frozen continent, where no human foot had yet trodden. But despite the thorough preparation, all members of the expedition perished. They were brought down by a disease unknown to polar explorers at the time…

Ingredients:
Poppy Seed Cake: 1 tablespoon of natural honey, 1 cup of sugar, 5 eggs, 150g of melted butter (about 5.3 oz), 1 tablespoon of starch, 2 tablespoons of flour, 5 sour apples, peeled and diced, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 2 cups of ground poppy seeds.
Peach-Cottage Cheese Layers: 500g of flour (about 4 cups), 250g of margarine (about 0.5 lb), 3 egg yolks, 1 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 1 packet of vanilla sugar.
Cottage Cheese Filling: 1kg of cottage cheese (about 2…