Mediterranean Penne

I had a few left-over green beans that started to get bad and I wondered what to do with. There aren't so many things that can be done with green beans, when you thing about it.

Start by cooking the green beans. At the same time, fry thin slices of veal in olive oil & garlic, then set aside. In the same pan, fry square-cut onions until golden-brown, add diced tomatoes and herbes de provence, then cover and cook until tomatoes are melted. Add the veal, the beans and just a bit of the beans' cooking juice, then leave a few minutes under low heat so that flavors mix. Serve on Penne.

Ragout d'agneau à la coriande fraîche

This is loosely based on a very good goat stew I ate in a restaurant from La Réunion.

Nothing special in the preparation. Just like any stew.

Berbère-Rigatoni

Next dish with my new ethiopian-berbère spice mix. I came up with this dish trying to picture how I would like my meal to look like. This time I was very happy with the result. Like I said because, it doesn't always end up good when I invent dish :)



Start by 'reviving' dried wild mushrooms, placing them in a bamboo-steamer for 30mn. Meanwhile, grill thin slices of lamb in olive oil and set aside. Then fry large-cut green pepper pieces together with the mushrooms, in the same pan as the lamb, in a mix of butter & olive oil. Set aside when done. Again in the same pan, fry onions until golden then add tomato-dices and a good amount of ethiopian-berbère spice mix. Cook under medium heat until tomatoes melt. Add everything that was set aside and let the flavors mix under low heat for 5-10mn.

Ethiopian couscous

Alright, after moving twice across an ocean, back into cooking.
One of my favorite restaurant is an Erythrean restaurant in Karlsruhe, where they make fabulous erythrean couscous. That's a taste I'll never be able to top. Neverthless, I gave it a try, with moderate results. Visually it turned out nice though. The idea came to me after buying an "ethiopian berbere" spice mix and wondering what to do with it.



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