Potatoes and mushrooms stew

Ingredients: 5 garlic cloves, 500 g potatoes, 250 g mushrooms, salt, pepper, 2 tbsp tomato paste.

Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes.
Peel and slice the garlic.Fry it in a large pan with some oil for 2 - 3 min.

Add the potatoes and let them fry, stirring often.

Cut the mushrooms and add them to the pan. Cook for 5 -7 min, stirring.

Add enough water to cover the potatoes. Add the tomato paste.
Cook until the potatoes are soft. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve with fresh bread.

Gluten free apple tarte tatin

Ingredients: 4 apples, 5 tbsp butter, 3 tbsp sugar, 200 g gluten free pastry.

Preheat the oven at 170° C.
Peel the apples and cut them into slices.
Use a tarte tin. Put the butter and sugar in the tin on the stove. Heat until melted.

Add the apples and cook until they soften.

Arrange them in the tin a little bit to be levelled.

Put the pastry on top. Make a few holes using a fork.

Bake in the oven for 20 min. Let it rest for 15 min then flip it over on a large plate.

Mango popsicle

Ingredients: 3 mangos, 3 spoonfuls crème fraiche,  sugar - if you really want some. i added no sugar and they were delicious and refreshing.

Peel the mangos and cut them into pieces. Blend them well.

Add the crème fraiche and mix well.

 I used a muffin tray to put them in the freezer.

Freeze them for at least 30 min.
To remove them from the moulds, use a blowtorch.

Gluten free apple, mango and blueberry crumble

Ingredients: 4 apples, 1 mango, 3 handfuls of blueberries, 4 tbsp gluten free crumble, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp Marsala.

Preheat the oven at 180° C.
Peel the apples and the mango.

Cut them into wedges. Add the blueberries.

Put the sugar on top and the Marsala.
Mix everything together in an oven proof dish.

Put the crumbles on top.

Bake in the oven for 25 -30 min, until golden on top.

Gluten free pancake tower with mascarpone and apricot jam

Ingredients: 3 eggs, 3 tbsp sugar, 2 cups of skimmed milk, gluten free flour, 200 g mascarpone, 1 tsp vanilla essence, apricot jam. 

For the pancakes: mix the eggs with the sugar. 

Add the flour.

Start adding milk until you get the consistency of a double cream.

Start frying the pancakes.
Mix the mascarpone with the vanilla.

Start building the tower. Spread one pancake with mascarpone, another with apricot jam.

Let it rest for a wile before cutting it. You can pour some Marsala on top if you want to.

Musakka

Ingredients: 1 kg low fat minced meat, 1 kg potatoes, 10 garlic cloves, dried herbs, 400 g can chopped tomatoes, salt, pepper, 1 tbsp butter, half a cup of skimmed milk.

Peel the garlic cloves and crush them. Fry it in a large pan with some oil. 

When the garlic starts to get golden, add the meat.

Stir often. Add salt, pepper and the herbs.

When the meat starts to get brown, add the chopped tomatoes.

Preheat the oven at 180° C.
In the meantime, boil the potatoes.

Mash them, with salt, butter and milk.
Put half of the mash in an oven proof dish.

Add the meat. Then the rest of the mash.

Bake in the oven for 30 min. Let it rest for 30 min before serving, like this it will keep its shape.

Grilled peppers salad

Ingredients: 3 peppers, vinegar, olive oil, 3 garlic cloves, salt.

Grill the peppers on the flame of the stove.

Remove them from the heat into a bowl and cover them with a towel for 5 min. Peel them. Chop them into slices.
Crush the garlic. Add the vinegar and oil. Taste and add some salt if necessary.
Mix everything together and let it cool down. Serve cold.

Cheat gluten free fish and chips

Ingredients :4 even-size cod fillets, 50 g gluten free self raising flour - plus 1 tbsp, 1 medium egg white, 125 ml cold sparkling water, 300 ml oil for frying, 1 lemon - cut into wedges, salt, pepper.

Start heating the oil in a pan.
Make sure the fillets have no bones left. Put the tbsp of flour in a bowl and coat the fillets with it.
Set the aside to rest.

Mix together the remaining flour, pinch of salt and pepper.
Whisk the egg white until bubbly, but not stiff.

Add the egg whites to the flour mixture. Make sure you mix slowly, you don't want to lose the air.

Dip the fish into the batter. Fry it in the heated oil.

Turn it after 5- 6 min.

 Prepare the chips.

 Remove the fish from the oil and dry it with paper towels.