So Simple but So Delicious!

Alright, this is a recipe to cook a delicious meal with potatoes only, and it is not mashed potatoes.

Ingredients

1000 grams / 35 oz potatoes
1 big onion
1 clove of garlic
250 ml tomato juice
4 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tsp salt
A pinch of black pepper
A pinch of oregano
3 bay leaves

Method


In a copper add 1.5 inches of water and place it over heat to boil. Peel and chop the potatoes in small cubes. Chop the onion and the garlic cloves in very thin slices. Wait until the water starts to boil and add the potato cubes, onion, garlic, bay leaves and salt. Boil the ingredients for 35 min and then add the tomato juice, oil, pepper and oregano. Lower heat and boil for 15 min more. That’ it! You made a filling and tasty meal.

For more taste you can add some Tabasco® drops or half tsp of Boukovo after the meal is cooked.

Serving proposition

You can serve this delicious dish with some slices of cheese (Greek Feta is best, but you can use any hard and salty cheese you wish, like Regato, Grana Padano etc.)

Pasta "Inferna"

Well this is one of my favourites "made-easy" recipes and my family loves it. It's very hot though, so it's recomended only for the bold ones...


Ingredients

-Any type of pasta

-Fresh pepper or/and onion (Chopped in thin slices)

-Fresh hot (green or red) pepper (any type) or Boukovo (?) (Boukovo is the result of crumbling dried red hot peppers)

-500 gr. Tomato juice, or minced tomatoes or at least ketchup...

-400 gr. Fresh mushrooms (chopped in thin slices) or 240 gr (drained) canned ones

-Salt, pepper and oregano

Alternative
If you haven't got any mushrooms or even onion or fresh peppers you can use sliced ham, or bacon to give extra taste to the sauce!

Method

1. Put some funy/joyful music on your stereo system! Remember Cooking means to have FUN!
2. Cook any type of pasta (spaghettini, linguini, penne, farfale, pennette, fusilli, rigatoni etc) in the way I advise you in the blog entry "Boiling Pasta Secret"
3. In a saucepan, saute the chopped onions, fresh (non-hot) peppers, fresh hot peppers and mushrooms, until they get shrinked and red (not black which means that they are carbonized he he..)

4. Pour the tomato juice or minced tomatoes (or 200 gr of Ketchup with 200 gr water)

5. Add Boukovo (1 spoonful) or 1 teaspoonful of Tabasco sauce, 1 spf of salt, some black pepper and oregano.

6. Boil the sauce for 15 min.

AND THAT' S ALL! Good appetite and Fun!

The basic elements...

The most basic elements in easy cooking are pasta, tomato sauce, onions, peppers, milk cream, chilli peppers, salt, pepper, oregano, olive oil, mushrooms and IMAGINATION!