Nice winter soup to heat you up on a cold winter day

Serves 4

1 kg tomatoes chopped into pieces

6 big red bell peppers cleaned and chopped into pieces

4 red onions chopped into pieces

4 cloves of garlic sliced into halves

Dried chili pepper, powder or fresh (according to taste)

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

A handful of fresh basil leaves

1-2 dl milk

 

1.

Preheat the oven to 200C. Line a large baking tray with baking paper.

2.

Place the chopped tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic and chili in the baking tray season with olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake for 45 minutes, stir occasionally.

3.

Remove baking tray from the oven and let cool down a bit. Puree the soup in batches in a blender together with basil leaves until smooth add milk until you get the right consistence.

4.

Transfer the soup to a pot and heat up again. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Serve with a piece of homemade bread.

Buon Appetito!

 

A nice and fresh alternative to the traditional coleslaw. Goes very well with wild boar burger or any other kind of pork dishes.

4 Large Carrots roughly grated

400 g Red cabbage sliced very thin

1 1/2 dl good quality Mayonnaise

2 tbsp strong mustard

Lemon juice

Cumin seeds grated

Salt and Pepper

Mix mayonnaise, mustard, cumin, lemon juice, salt and pepper season to taste and set aside.

In a large serving bowl combine grated carrots and the sliced red cabbage.

Pour the mayonnaise mix over the vegetables and fold everything together, set aside for 30 minutes.

Buon Appetito!

This is another of Jack and Deans delicious recipes. The sauce is made from HP sauce and Worcester sauce but I don’t know if they exit gluten free, that’s why we use gluten free barbeque sauce in our burgers.

4 Blue Boar Burgers:

500 g minced wild boar meet

Barbeque sauce or (1 tbsp HP sauce, 1 tbsp tomato sauce, Worcestershire Sauce)

1 shallot, finely diced

50 g Blue Cheese

1 Crisp apple sliced

Watercress or Valeriana salad

Butter or oil to fry

4 Burger Buns

 

Hand work the mince to encourage binding.

Divide and flatten to 2 cm thickness and leave on the fridge for 30 minutes

Mix HP sauce, Worcestershire sauce and tomato sauce together add the diced shallot or use the barbeque sauce.

Season and fry burgers (medium/high heat 4 minutes on each side)

Half and warm burger buns

Spread sauce onto warm bun, add sliced apple, burger and top with blue cheese and water cress.

Serve with a glass of Castello di Montegiove red wine.

Buon Appetito!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baking gluten free pancakes can be a bit demanding that’s why we always make this delicious banana version.

14 Banana Pancakes

4 Eggs

2 Bananas very mature

1 tsp Vanilla sugar

½ dl flour (with or without gluten)

Pinch of salt

Butter for cooking

 

Whisk the eggs together until completely combined. Mash the bananas.

Pour the eggs and the rest of the ingredients over the bananas and stir until completely combined.

Heat a large skillet/frying pan over medium heat. Melt a little butter in the pan.

Pour 2 large tablespoons of batter onto the hot skillet. You can cook around 4 at a time on a large skillet. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on both sides. Serve hot with blue berries and maple syrup.

Buon Appetito!

Some years ago I had to find a way to prepare courgettes so the girls would actually like them. This is the recipe that we have invented together, besides from making a healthy dish it was also a very nice way to spend some time together experimenting in the kitchen.

You can easily prepare the flans the day before and store them in the fridge over night.

For 8 Flans:

500 g Courgettes (small and hard)

3 Eggs (separate yolk and white)

70 g Parmesan cheese grated

3-4 tblsp cream

2 Basil leaves

Olive oil

Knob of melted butter

Salt and Pepper to season

8 Silver foil cups or ramekins

 

Preheat the oven to 140 C (fan oven).

Wash the courgettes and cut them into squares, fry them on a hot pan in olive oil until tender not brown, set aside to cool.

Grease 8 ramekins with melted butter.

Beat the egg whites until stiff and set them aside.

Transfer the courgettes, egg yolks, Parmesan cheese, cream, basil leaves, salt and pepper into a food processor and blend until smooth. Fold the egg whites into the courgette mix and pour into ramekins.

Place them in a roasting pan with high sides, fill water halfway up the sides of the ramekins.

Cook the flans in the oven a bain marie for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from the pan and allow to cool slightly, the flans are also very good served cold.

Buon Appetito!