beans, beans....and cheese

Ingredients: bread, cheese, canned beans, butter and sambal

A quick snack or meal. You can use white or brown bread, it's up to you. 2 slices of bread in between cheese to your liking. You can use cheddar cheese, gouda... any cheese that melts nicely when grilled. Heat your grill (you can bake it in a non stick pan with some butter). meanwhile heat your beans. Heat a little butter in a frying pan add the sambal. fry for a minute add the beans. stir while heating. Put the bread on the grill and grill until the cheese melts. serve with the beans.

Endive stalks, cheese and tagliatelle

Ingredients; tagliatelle 200 gr, endive stalks 3, finely cut Parsley 2 tbsp, 1 egg, pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, olive oil 3 tbsp, Padano 50 gr.

Non vegetarians; cured bacon 150 gr

Vegetarians; smoked tofu 100 gr

Boil tagliatelle in plenty of salted water. Slice endive stalks lengthwise in small strips. Heath oil in a large frying pan and add endive. Add salt and pepper. Fry until soft and a bit browned.
Meanwhile beat one egg with some salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Fry the bacon / tofu lightly in a non stick pan.
Set aside some cooking fluid from the tagliatelle before rinsing. Add the tagliatelle to the endive. Add parsley and mix well. Take the frying pan of the fire and add a few tablespoons from the cooking fluid. Add the beaten egg and mix quickly.
Serve and dress with bacon / tofu and some roughly grated Padano cheese. You can use Parmesan cheese or mature cheddar instead.

recipes: Courgette Quiche

Ingredients: 1 courgette, grated cheddar 100gr, Parmesan 100gr, 2 eggs, 1 small onion, 1 chili pepper, soy cream 10cl, pepper, salt, paprika powder, cooked ham 2 slices, butter, pastry (puff pastry or shortcrust)
Vegetarians: loose the ham use soy meat instead, you need some vegetable stock aswell.

Grate the courgette, cut the onion and the chili pepper into very small bits. Melt the butter in a frying pan. Add the onion and chili, fry for a minute and add the grated courgette. Fry until soft and let it cool down.

I use ready made pastry, but you can make your own. Take a baking tray and place the rolled out pastry in the tray. Put the ham slice in and cover with some grated cheddar. Add the cooled down courgette.
Mix soy cream, eggs, paprika powder, pepper and salt. Mix well, then poor over the courgette.
Cover it with pastry. Make some holes in the top so the steam can get out.
Bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven at 220°c. Get it out and cover with very thin slices of Parmesan cheese. Bake for another 5 minutes. Serve hot!

For a vegetarian version you don't use the Ham, or replace it with soy meat. Cook 75 gr of soy meat in some vegetable stock. Melt some butter in a non stick frying pan and fry until golden brown add spices (Pepper, paprika powder). Let it cool down before putting it on the bottom of the pastry.

Go about it ass above cover with grated cheddar....

recipes: pork tenderloin with yogurt

Ingredients: 800 gr pork tenderloin, 100 gr mature cheese, 1 L. firm yogurt, pepper, salt, 1 tbsp.paprika powder, 50 gr plain flour, parsley, 2 medium sized onions, 50 gr butter, some toothpicks.

Cut the pork in approximately 8 cm long pieces, and slice 'em halfway through (lengthwise). Cut up the cheese so you have piece of 1x1x8 cm. put the cheese inside the pork, close the meat and use 2 toothpicks for each piece to keep them closed.

Mix the flour and paprika powder. Put some pepper & salt on the meat and roll it in the flour mix until it is covered. Melt the butter in a cooking pot and fry the pork for a few minutes until it is sealed.
Meanwhile cut the onion into small pieces and once the meat is sealed and a little colored, add the onions. Turn down the fire close the cooking pot, let it simmer until the onions are soft and glazy. Add the yogurt, pepper and salt and cook softly for about 45 to 60 minutes. Stir once in a while.
When the yogurt doesn't thicken enough you might want to use some extra flour, dissolve the flour in a bit of warm water before adding. Cook for a few minutes while stirring Add the parsley and serve.
We serve it with mashed potatoes.