Eggplant & mozzarella

February 23rd, 2018 | starter

Eggplants are indispensable to an Italian appetizer plate. In this recipe eggplant, tomato, prosciutto and mozzarella enter a creamy liaison. Ready in 30 minutes the sunny taste makes me believe that summer is not far…

Eggplant with mozzarella

(serves 4)

2 eggplants

cut into slices (1 cm)

6 TS olive oil

sauté slices about 5 minutes, remove, drain on kitchen paper

salt, pepper

season, put on baking tray lined with baking paper

4 tomatoes

cut into slices, place one on each eggplant slice, salt and pepper

1 bunch basil

put some basil aside for the decoration, finely cut the remaining and spread on the tomatoes

100 g Parma ham

pluck in pieces, place on top

2 mozzarella cheese (125 g) each

cut into slices and place on top

bake the eggplant “tower” under the preheated grill (240 ° C) for about 8 minutes

serve garnished with remaining basil leaves

And that’s how the wife of the captain does it

For this dish, I don’t use a simple black pepper, but a special pepper mixture called “Jahreszeiten Gewürz” which means season’s seasoning of a German spice specialist called “Altes Gewürzamt”. This is my absolute favorite spice with tomatoes. It is a sort of pepper (piper nigrum) in five different processing stages. Steaks and tomatoes? Only with good salt and Jahreszeiten Gewürz, nothing else.

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Carne de vinha d'alho - marinated pork with wine-garlic sauce and slices of orange and lemon

December 12th, 2018 | main dishes

Carne de vinha d’alho (pork in wine-garlic sauce)

We remember this dish as a very special Christmas dinner on Madeira island. It is already a few years back, we had booked very spontaneously. Arriving on the 24th of December, without any restaurant reservation for the holidays. Just following our noses at Christmas day we ended up in a small fisherman bar near to Maddalena do Mar. The tiny bar was packed. We were the only tourists. There was no menu, and apparently only one single dish. “Christmas dinner”, they told us.