Battle 20 - Sis: Pasta "Camilla style"

Summer is at its best in Switzerland and the garden is getting full of tomatoes. As the battle theme was Jamie's recipe challenge, I thought an Italian dish would be a good idea. Jamie is such a good ambassador for Italian food, isn't he?

This recipe is a mix between cooked and raw ingredients. To me, some ingredients such as Parma ham, Rucola salad or basilico are much better raw. It's why it's made of cooked pastas with a creamy tomato sauce and top with raw 100% Italian ingredients.

Pasta "Camilla style"

Ingredients for 2 persons

- 150g "Penne"

- 5 tomatoes

- 0,5 dl cream

- thyme, basilico

- 3 slices Parma ham

- 50g fresh rucola

- a few slices of Parmesan (Italian cheese)

- a pinch of sugar

- salt

1. Prepare the tomato sauce. Boil the 5 tomatoes for 2 minutes. Let them cool down and peel them. Take the seeds out. Cut them in small pieces. Put them in a pot with the thyme, basilico and a pinch of sugar. Cook the tomato sauce during one hour on a low-medium heat until it's getting thicker "sauce like". Add the cream and cook again for 15 min.

2. Boil the penne in hot water for 10 min.

3. Add the penne to tomato sauce and mix well. Serve in 2 plates and top each with some parma ham slices, rucola and parmesan.

To fit with this funky dish, I'd propose to listen to that !! BIG CITY life vs little village life, what do you think Bengt?!

Honnestly, I sometimes miss this BIG city life..but never for long ;-)) (Except the skateboard thing+the easy city biking, hahahaha !)

Battle 20 - Bro: Tagliatelle Tomato-Chanterelle

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to introduce you my new kitchen! A gas kitchen! Very cool. It looks like a subwoofer, don’t you think???

I am still a bit on my way to unpack my stuff, and haven’t given food much attention those last days, I must admit. But listening to the gas speakers and looking at the August summer weather outside the window, I imagine the following recipe (try it and let me know if it works, I will only be able to cook it for real this week-end…).

Tagliatelle tomato-chanterelle, for 2 persons:

- 400g of fresh tagliatelle (check out battle 10 for the homemade recipe)
- 4 nice tomatoes
- A basket of chanterelles (200g?)
- ½ Shallot
- 2-3 table spoon of cream
- Thyme

Peel the tomatoes and empty them. Filter what you take out and save that juice. Cut the tomatoes in cubes. Brush the dirt from the chanterelles, cut them in small pieces.

In a hot pan, roast the shallot dies, and add the mushrooms and the juice saved from the tomatoes. Add salt and pepper and let it cook slowly for 3-4 minutes. Add some thyme and the cream, adjust the spicing. Add the tomato cubes for the last 2-3 minutes of cooking, just to warm them (while boiling the tagliatelle). Ready!

As simple, powerful and poetic as the music of Mono… Like it Jamie?