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What's For Dinner Tonight - I'm Doing Pork Steaks
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with a tray roast of mediterannean vegetables (3 colours of pepper, courgettes, aubergine red onion and mushrooms with fresh thyme and garlic sprinkled with olive oil and black pepper, and some new potatoes
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Authentic Florentine Bruschetta
1 small onion
2 or 3 medium sized Tomatoes
Fresh Basil
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
1 lemon
Crusty bread (Ideally Ciabatta, but a Baguette will do fine)
1 clove of garlic, peeled
Slice the bread at a jaunty angle
Heat a pan and add a little Oil - let it smoke
Fry the bread both sides really quickly until crispy on the outside but still fluffy on the inside
Place on a cooling rack
Score the skins of the tomatoes and plunge mercilessly into boiling water for 20 seconds
Remove from hot water and place in ice cold water
Finely chop the Basil & onion
Place in a bowl
Take the tomahtoes from the water, peel (easy once they've been scalded & chilled)
De-seed and finely chop
Add chopped tomato to onion & basil
Add Olive Oil to bowl and squeeze juice of the lemon & mix well.
Add salt & pepper to taste & let it rest, infuse & generally sexify
Rub garlic thoroughly onto toasted bread
Top bread with tomato, onion, basil stuff
Serve with a cooled chianti or a chilled bone-dry wite wine.
1 small onion
2 or 3 medium sized Tomatoes
Fresh Basil
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
1 lemon
Crusty bread (Ideally Ciabatta, but a Baguette will do fine)
1 clove of garlic, peeled
Slice the bread at a jaunty angle
Heat a pan and add a little Oil - let it smoke
Fry the bread both sides really quickly until crispy on the outside but still fluffy on the inside
Place on a cooling rack
Score the skins of the tomatoes and plunge mercilessly into boiling water for 20 seconds
Remove from hot water and place in ice cold water
Finely chop the Basil & onion
Place in a bowl
Take the tomahtoes from the water, peel (easy once they've been scalded & chilled)
De-seed and finely chop
Add chopped tomato to onion & basil
Add Olive Oil to bowl and squeeze juice of the lemon & mix well.
Add salt & pepper to taste & let it rest, infuse & generally sexify
Rub garlic thoroughly onto toasted bread
Top bread with tomato, onion, basil stuff
Serve with a cooled chianti or a chilled bone-dry wite wine.
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