https://food.yarenty.com/Simple, cheap, delicious. Written for students, eaten by everyone. https://food.yarenty.com/2025/10/golabki.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2025/10/golabki.htmlSun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTGołąbki means "little pigeons", which has nothing to do with birds and everything to do with the shape. Rice and minced meat wrapped in a cabbage leaf, baked under more cabbage, drowned in tomato sauce. It is a Sunday dish in Poland and a whole-week dish for a student: one big pot feeds yo https://food.yarenty.com/2024/10/schabowe-pork-chops.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2024/10/schabowe-pork-chops.htmlWed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTIf Poland had one national dinner, this would be it: a thin pork chop, beaten flat, breaded, fried golden. Twenty minutes from fridge to plate, and the leftovers make the best sandwich you will eat this week. https://food.yarenty.com/2024/10/chickenbroth.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2024/10/chickenbroth.htmlWed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTEvery Polish Sunday starts with rosół. The full version simmers for half a day; this is the student version, an hour and a bit, and it still cures colds, hangovers and homesickness. https://food.yarenty.com/2021/03/chinese-pork.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2021/03/chinese-pork.htmlMon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMTThis is the dish that convinced me a wok is worth the cupboard space. Pork marinated in soy and potato starch goes velvety instead of chewy, the ginger cut two ways gives both bite and background, and the honey turns the pan juices into a sauce in the last two minutes. Serve over plain rice and eat https://food.yarenty.com/2021/02/sicilian-bread.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2021/02/sicilian-bread.htmlWed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTThe only bread I bake, because it asks so little: mix, wait, mix, wait longer, bake hot. The waiting is the recipe. Total hands-on time is about fifteen minutes; the rest is yeast doing the work while you do something else. Adapted from a video by Vito Iacopelli. https://food.yarenty.com/2021/02/bacon-chinesse-style.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2021/02/bacon-chinesse-style.htmlWed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTKnown at home as salo po kitajski, bacon the Chinese way; the Chinese know it as hong shao rou, red-braised pork. Cheap pork belly, a caramel of sugar, and an hour in a dark, fragrant bath. It comes out lacquered and soft enough to eat with a spoon. Rice is not optional. https://food.yarenty.com/2021/01/spagetti-aglio-e-olio-midnight-food.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2021/01/spagetti-aglio-e-olio-midnight-food.htmlThu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTExtremely easy, and the whole timing is the pasta's timing: water to boil plus cooking time, about fifteen minutes. Everything happens in the last four minutes, which is why it is the perfect thing to make when you are hungry, it is late, and the fridge is a philosophy exam. https://food.yarenty.com/2020/01/spagetti-second-day.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2020/01/spagetti-second-day.htmlTue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTWhen you cook spaghetti, cook more than you will eat. Cold pasta in the fridge is not a leftover, it is tomorrow's breakfast, lunch or the evening after a spaghetti lunch. Two ways, both under ten minutes, both from the same pan. https://food.yarenty.com/2020/01/pete-sandwiches.htmlhttps://food.yarenty.com/2020/01/pete-sandwiches.htmlTue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTSandwiches are the easiest possible food, after going to McDonald's. You can make a sandwich out of anything as long as you have the base: bread. This is the pâté ladder, from student-poor to student-rich, and at the bottom a note on the ham version, which used to be its own post and did not des