cooking lesson #1

last night went for dinner at scooby's place. She made tomato soup, fried limande and chocolate cake. Here's the recipe for the tomato soup:

take seven large ripe tomatoes, and put them in a pot, cover with water, bring to a boil, then take them out and drain, reserving about a two cups of the tomato water. When slighly cool, peel the skin off, then cut into chunks. Mix with tomato water, grated ginger, handful of chopped basil, minced clove of garlic, sliver of olive oil, pepper, salt, and quite a good lot of sugar. If you have time, use two large wooden spoons (or anything else available, and smash chunks of tomato against side of pot to reduce size and puree a little. That's all folks!
SERVES FIVE AS STARTER

the chocolate cake was soooo delicious...but it was harder to follow exactly what she was doing
a good chunk of butter (maybe half a block) creamed with half a cup of sugar, add four eggs, then melt six blocks of chocolate, stir it into mixture, finally, one cup of flour, a handful of chopped basil, and a little bit of levure (baking powder). finally, make sure the oven is hot hot hot (475-500F?) and put batter into square tin, and shove into oven for ten/fifteen minutes. Pull out and cover. The idea here is to have a bottom and top that's crisp and well done, while the middle is slightly wet and fondant (like fudge in the centre).

fried limande, fried fish. if you need a recipe for that, write me for a free insult.

yup, food good!!!

tomorrow: how to make a good boiled egg, and famous death meals (what would be your last supper?)