Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Spaghetti with egg

This is one of the quickest dishes you could ever cook. Nevertheless it is extremely tasty. Just cook the spaghetti until nearly done and then quickly fry, stirring vigorously, with an egg in sauce pan. Add some fresh herbs if you have any.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Cannelloni

Cannello means tube in Italian; consequently these are large tubes. Fill them with anything you want (in this case spinach and cheese), cover with Béchamel sauce - or perhaps a tomato one if the filling is more meaty -and cook in the oven. How to make a tube from a pasta sheet is left to the reader to figure out. Very simple and equally delicious!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Greek salad

Not much to say except that it's difficult to find good olives here. Afterwards remember to shatter the plate on the floor whilst manically swirling around transfixing all women nearby. Then have a glass of retsina before daily football practise (remember: no forward passes). Ela ela!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Continental burgers

It's beef and salad in pita bread. A swift meal on a day filled with teleconferences; as ugly as it gets in other words. All I want is to forget.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Spare ribs in a tomato sauce

Not particularly interesting a cut but I got some so it had to be eaten. The problem with spare ribs is that although they are rather fat they easily go dry when cooked. The method used in this dish was to carefully seal the meat under the grill and then cook it in a rich tomato sauce. It turned out all right but I suspect the best way to cook these be to do as our dear friends across the pond and drench them in honey and who knows what else. Turn off the TV and ingest feeling slightly Laestadian.