Yesterday
evening I invited Franckie and Ryan for dinner.
When I
invite people at home and I cook for them, I like to cook something special.
Yesterday, I combined ingredients which
apparently do not work together.
Tonight, I
am going to cook paccheri (pasta), of course, with tomatoes, artichokes and salmon.
You might
probably say: “artichoke and salmon together? What a weird combination!”
Well, let
us see.
The bitterness of the artichoke combined with the fragrance of salmon is something you have to
taste.
Therefore,
I am going to show you how to make it, step by step.
Then, if
you do not want to cook it, invite me. You buy all the ingredients required and
I’ll cook for you. No problem at all.
My Mum has
always cooked for her family.
So, I took from
her the passion of cooking for other people.
From my
point of view, cooking is an alchemy.
From this perspective, I see myself as an alchemist.
In other words, I like to
make experiments with food.
Now, I am
going to show you how to make this healthy and tasty meal.
It is very
easy.
First of
all, take a piece of garlic with some onion. Chop it.
Put it in
an a pan.
Poor in the
pan 6 spoons (2 spoons for each person) of extra-virgin olive oil.
Better if
the olive oil is Apulian, bought from an Apulian producer. Buying olive oil from a
shop is strictly forbidden. I’m joking…
Put in the
pan 10 fresh tomatoes, the ciliegino
(cherry) ones.
Keep it
cooking for 20 minutes, at a very low fire.
One of the secret of cooking is
slowness.
By the way,
women love seeing men cooking for them.
Cooking is
a powerful act of seduction (seduction comes from the Latin se ducere, which means “bring s.o. to
yourself”).
Let’s come
back to the meal.
Beside the soffritto, clean the artichokes and put
them in a pan with some water.
Let them boil
for roughly 20 minutes as well.
In this
way, the artichokes will turn tender.
After that,
move the artichokes to the other pan.
Do not throw away the water of
artichokes.
Let them cook all together for 15 minutes.
Poor every
5/10 minutes some of the greenish water released previously by the artichokes.
Finally,
chop the salmon and put it in the big pan.
Let it cook all together just for 5 minutes.
Then, when
the meal will be ready, on your table, the doors to the Paradise will get opened.
Buon appetito.
