My Italian background is coming out with this dish. Polenta is the meal that brings me flashbacks of family summers In northern Italy and it’s definitely considered a ‘peasant’ food because it’s just SO cheap. Corn was viewed as feed for the animals, but I definitely think the times have changed because polenta is everywhere in the mountains
Read moreButterbean Shashuka
Traditionally made with red peppers, shashuka is what I consider a ‘Clean Out The Fridge’ meal where the base is always eggs poached in a tomato sauce- in fact, if a can of chopped tomatoes is all the veg you have its STILL luxuriously delicious and fulfilling. In this butterbean derivative of the classic middle eastern meal, I used spinach, zucchini and butterbeans making it a bit of a more eastern fusion of traditional shashuka and ranchos hueveros (a Mexican tomato and egg based brunch often served with black beans).
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