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1. Butter Beans & Chorizo
I've never known how to go about cooking beans before, but I was inspired by a breakfast I had in Auckland at Andiamo, who make the best Bloody Mary's I have ever had ~ This concoction is my interpretation of this for dinner.
Ingredients
2 cans of butter beans
2 cans of tomatoes
1 large onion
4 cloves of garlic
thyme
200 grams of chorizo
olive oil
pepper and salt
100 grams parmesan
pinch of smoked paprika.
Instructions
It is extremely simple really, basically all you need to do is stir fry the onion, garlic, chorizo and thyme, then add the canned beans and stir fry for 3 - 5 minutes.
Add canned tomatoes, smoked paprika, pepper and salt, and simmer. Serve with steamed broccoli and toasted garlic pita bread, with parmesan on top.
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| Penny's Spanish Tom soup |
Warm the heart and soul this winter with my delicious tomato soup!
Ingredients
(I'm not much of a measurer - prefer to wing it)
6 fresh tomatoes (preferably on the vine)
3 cans of tomatoes
2 handfuls of fresh basil
2 onions
6 garlic cloves (to your preference - I'm a fan)
4 sticks of celery
2 carrots
1 tsp smoked paprika
Olive oil
250g of sour cream (or not - depends how naughty you want to be)
200g chorizo
1 litre of vegetable stock
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
Pepper & salt of course!
Directions
All you need to do is stir fry, with olive oil, the chorizo with the onion, garlic, carrots and celery, in the bottom of your enormous soup pot. Once browned and softened add vegetable stock and simmer.
Whilst this is happening you want to coat your ripe tomatoes with olive oil and salt and roast in the oven.
Once vegetables are truly softened (add hot water if you need more moisture) add your canned tomatoes and roast tomatoes when they are ready. Simmer and stir, add more vegetable stock if necessary. When looking ready add your basil, smoked paprika, pepper & salt, sour cream, and stir. Remove from stove and blend in your whizzer.
I like to make cheese scones or home made garlic bread to go with this, but it is hearty enough on its own. Bon appetit! As Julia Childs would say...
3. Gnocchi & Cheesecake - Dinner party shenanigans
Some might say I'm foolhardy, but I thought it might be fun to make gnocchi, from scratch, for a party of eight. I prefer ballsy, whilst not everyone got their meal at the same time it was delicious if I do say so myself!
After only one previous attempt, there was some shrieks of 'Yussss! We've got a floater!!!!" when my plump bundles of gnocchi arose to the surface having run out of flour three times! Needless to say it was an entertaining and triumphant night!
Thankfully the cheesecake wasn't such high maintenance!
Ingredients
(serves 8)
Gnocchi
6 potatoes (I used 14 probably why I ran into flour shortages)
2 eggs
4-6 cups of flour
Peel and boil potatoes until soft. Drain and cool, blend with an egg beater until completely smooth.
Combine potato with eggs and flour (start with the 4 cups and see how you go). Kneed in a bowl or on a floured surface until dough is no longer sticky and is ball like.
Flatten and cut into 4 strips (or inch thick), roll each strip into a 2cm width snake and then cut up into 1cm long bits. Bring a pot of salted water the boil and place gnocchi in (3-5mins), once risen to the surface remove with a sieve and plate up.
Sauce/topping
4 italian sausages
4 chorizo sticks
200g butter
40 small sage leaves
1/2 a bottle of red wine
12 button mushrooms
1 punnet of cherry tomatoes
1 pack of italian parsley
8 basil leaves
1 lemon juiced
Pepper & salt
Heat the butter in a deep frying pan until bubbling add the sage leaves and cook till crisp then pour into saucepan. Use the residue of the burnt butter sage sauce to stir fry the sausages in (whole to start). Once browned remove and cut into medium slices and return to pan. Add the finely chopped chorizo and mushrooms and cook till golden.
Start adding the red wine and simmer. Keep topping up and cooking through till the bottles finished.
On the side, combine in a bowl the cherry tomatoes, cut into 1/4s, the roughly torn italian parsley and finely chopped basil. Squeeze the juice of a lemon over top and season with pepper and salt.
To combine, plate the gnocchi, heat the burnt butter sage up in the sauce pan and drizzle over the gnocchi, make sure they all get sage leaves, spoon over the italian sausage combination and top with the fresh zesty tomato mix.
If you want everyone to eat at the same time - may I suggest getting another pair of hands!
Here comes pudding!
Click here to here about my baked lemon cheesecake with tamarillo topping
I'd love to hear your thoughts and requests!
Cheers, Penny.
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