Red pepper soup

June 24, 2008

ingredients:

1 teaspoon sweet chilli sauce
salt and freshly ground
black pepper
4 red peppers
1/2 teaspoon dried mixed herbs
50ml/2 fl oz vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 red onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 teaspoon mild curry paste
4 tomatoes
1 leek, white part only, sliced

How to cook?

  • Cut the peppers into quarters. Remove the seeds and membrane. Grill until the skin blackens and blisters. Place on a cutting board, cover with a tea towel and allow to cool before removing and discarding the skin.
  • Mark a small cross on the top of each tomato. Put in a bowl and cover with boiling water for about 2 minutes. Drain and cool. Skin, halve and remove the seeds.
  • Heat the oil in a large heavy pan over a low heat, and add the marjoram, mixed herbs, garlic and curry paste. Stir for 1 minute until aromatic, then add the onion and leek. Cook for a further 3 minutes. Add the cabbage, tomatoes, peppers and 1.2 litres/2pt water. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Allow the soup to cool slightly, then purée in a blender or food processor for 30 seconds or until smooth. Return to the pan and reheat gently. Stir in the chilli sauce, and season with salt and pepper. Serve hot.

Denver Omelet

April 30, 2008

This is one of the best and best accepted American omelets. If it is accolade and placed amid slices of acknowledgment it becomes a Denver sandwich and is appropriately as good.

Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 8 minutes

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons sliced red onion
1-2 ounces Cheddar cheese, grated
3 – 4 beaten eggs, seasoned with salt and pepper
1/4 cup diced cooked ham (diced means cut into small pieces – about 1/4 inch)
1 1/2 teaspoon of butter and oil (vegetable or peanut)
2 tablespoons diced green or red pepper

Instructions:

  • Calefaction a 7 – 8 inch or 10 inch bucket (depending on how blubbery you wish your omelet to be) over abstinent heat
  • While the pan is heating, exhausted the eggs in a bond basin until able-bodied attenuated but not frothy
  • When the pan is hot abundant to broil a bead or water, add the adulate and oil combination
  • When adulate stops foaming, add ham, peppers and onions, and saute two account or until actual hot
  • Whip the eggs a brace of times and cascade eggs into pan and let sit on calefaction until eggs activate to baker about the edges
  • Lift edges of eggs with a elastic spatula and tip pan to acquiesce aqueous to run underneath
  • Repeat until top is agglomeration and actual little aqueous egg remains
  • Add cheese and awning until cheese is melted
  • Fold omelet and bisect afore sliding assimilate plates

(Tips: When selecting green, red or chicken peppers they should be shiny, able-bodied shaped and appearance no signs of abbreviating or accept any analyze spots. To “prep” peppers, cut in bisected lengthwise and abolish the core, seeds and white membranes, again dice, chop or julienne depending on the recipe.)