Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

I guess we are trying to continue our special eating habits by putting a bit of "sex" in it. By that I mean, chicken livers/hearts with ouzo. Braise till all the alcohol is out. Leeks and carrots with rice....veggies with rice. Cheating?? maybe not. So here we go.

P iment de Spelette is a very "gentile - civilized - suave" kind of chili because unlike the Jalapeño or Habanero, is mild but still has that bite which even a lady can enjoy. They all have the same size, grow in the Basque area of South Western France/Spain around the area of the town of "Espelette". It can be found fresh, dried, and in powder. I personally have the dried ones very beautifully strung on a cord. In this recipe I used ¾ of one snipped very thinly with a pair of scissors.....

Rajma (Kidney Bean) Curry Indian Bread Indian Bread(somethng between Naan, Chapati, Roti etc...) Delicious!!! I ndian food is easy if and an only if you have the required ingredients. Ok you can have a ready mix of curry powder bought from any super market but it is not the same as to make your own from scratch if you have the ingredients. By changing the quantities between each other you can go from a curry to tikka etc.

Ragù Alla Bolognese by Sonia Peronaci www.giallozafferano.it T he famous meat sauce called Ragú alla Bolognese, means meat sauce, a specialty of Bologna, the capital of the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy....

O nce you went through all the trouble of making a batch of 1 kg of fresh pasta which you can cut anyway you like, it is worth your while to use it with different toppings. Last week I made a batch of 1 kg. Cut in half and used it for a meat sauce competition between friends living in the same building where we got second prize! First prize went to our friends from the third floor, and third prize went to our friends from the fourth. We all ate a lot and drank a lot. We live on the sixth and last floor. The other half of the batch we used to eat with smoked salmon and salmon roe. Fantastic....

Sweet Red Pepper Sauce With Piment d'Espelette I t is always handy to have a ready sauce which can be used hot or cold especially when it is made with olive oil....

Y ep, now-a-days, we have to be careful of what we eat, and how much we spend. Garbanzo beans also known as Chickpeas are a good choice for a simple everyday meal. The idea here is to use them whole into a soup....