Recipe Description : A great potato spanish recipe. Ingredients : • 2 pounds thin-skinned boiling potatoes
• salt
• 1 pound (about 1 medium) rutabaga*
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 to 1 cup hot milk or light cream
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/4 cup fine dry break crumbs
Preperation: • Put the potatoes in a large pot and cover them with water.
• Add 1 teaspoon salt for each quart of water. Heat to boiling and cook for 20to 25 minutes. Drain, mash, and add the cooked rutabaga* to the potatoes. Beat with and electric mixer until the potatoes and rutabagas* are smooothe and fluffy. Beat in the flour, eggs, salt, and milk (or cream). Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 3-quart shallow baking dish. Turn the mixture into the dish.
• Using a spoon, spread out the mixture, making indentations in the top of the casserole.
• Dot with the butter and sprinkle with the bread crumbs. Bake uncovered for 1 hour, or untillightly browned.
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Spaghetti is a traditional ingredient used in French for cooking. Ingredients : • Fresh spaghetti with green olives – for 4 persons
• 500 g grams of fresh spaghetti
• 100 g of stoned/pitted small green olives
• 50 g of dried preserved tomatoes
• 30 g of anchovy filets preserved in oil
• 10 g of capers
• a few leaves of basil
• 8 centiliters of olive oil
• Table salt and freshly ground black pepper Preperation: • Make 5 liters of water boiling
• While water is heating, heat the olive oil in a pan, add the olives, the anchovy filet cut in 2 parts, the dried tomatoes cut in big dice and the capers
• Let them sweat in the covered pan during 5 minutes
• When the water is boiling, salt it and pour the spaghetti making them standing up, then stir with a fork and count 2 minutes of cooking after water is boiling again.
• Quickly drain the spaghetti and add the foodstuff prepared in the pan, blend quickly with a wooden spoon, add (very few) table salt and some black pepper.
• Place the spaghetti very hot in a large hollow dish with minced basil leaves and eat it with a good Bandol (rosé wine from the Provence area) this nice beautiful and friendly dish.