Easy Recipes: Melon and ham | prosciutto e melone
Posted on Jul 7, 2009 05:37:28 AM
Easy Recipe: Cantaloupe and Prosciutto
Another easy recipe: this dish is very popular as a summer appetizer, and just like with Cheese and Pears, is one of the few recipes where the name totally matches with the ingredients and the final result is as good as its ingredients. This usually works as appetizer, but it cam be a filling main course if you don’t feel particularly hungry.
The ham that you see is not Italian Prosciutto di Parma, but some excellent German smoked ham bought at Lidl. The magic here is all in the combination of the sweet and the salted, so the aim is to lay the slices of ham and cantaloupe in a way that you can cut a piece of both and bring them together to your mouth. The trick is to make sure you’ll cut the ham following the meat fibers, not perpendicularly, as it won’t cut easily.
I found this out after taking the picture.
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Easy recipes: Cheese and pears (formaggio e pere)
Posted on Apr 22, 2009 12:50:30 PM
I bet you ended up here because you were looking for easy recipes. You found one.
Dublin’s cloudy sky (which, by the way, arrived after many, almost uninterrupted sunny days. I think the in-Ireland-it-rains-all-the-time crap should be dismissed once and for all) is no friend of unskilled photographers like me, but here we go:
- 2 slices of cheese
- one pear
- 2 teaspoons of honey
Like all easy recipes, like all simple dishes, it’s as good as its ingredients. I admit that the pears were not the best, and the honey was ordinary. But the cheese is mature sheep cheese that comes directly from my aunt’s little village in Sardinia.
A slice of warm bread and a glass of wine should complete the picture.
Needless to say, it should be eaten combining the flavours together.