With the sun shining on England its not the time to be slow cooking in a hot kitchen you might think. Well yes, so inspired by the Mediterranean weather I knocked up a quick one pot dish before hitting the road for a hard bike stewing in the heat while my food did the same.
I came home toasted to a nice unctuous pot of lovely stew and the final hour of today’s Giro stage on the telly, each exciting in there own way.
So what went in the pot? First some paprika packed pork sausages were browned off in there own fat. Then in some olive oil a whole roughly chopped onion sweated with some diced chorizo and bacon. When this was soft in went eight cloves of chopped garlic, diced red peppers, a couple of chili’s and a table spoon of hot smokey Spanish paprika. Cooked down for five minutes I then added a tin of crushed tomatoes, a good glass of red wine, a tin of butter beans, sliced carrots, diced potatoes and some stock to finish.
It’s actually far to hot to the dish for tonight’s warm evening, but it will make a perfect lunch this week when normalcy kicks in too the English summer and it goes back to grey drizzle. Now I’m of to sit in the garden, drink Sicilian lemonade and pretend I’m by the Mediterranean.
#1 by norma on May 25th, 2009 - 11:27 pm
i have a recipe for salmon fish fingers with panko breadcrumbs if you want to try ?
#2 by Yant Martin-Keyte on May 28th, 2009 - 8:24 pm
Always up for new recipes, drop me an email.
yant