Recipe

The excuse to just hang out in the kitchen for a few hours. Usually on Sunday afternoons, by the way. Making tomato sauce for later this year. Slow cooking to the max. Sterilizing bottles. The promise that that delicious sauce will be in the pantry waiting for you. For that day where you do not know what to prepare. Or exactly know what you want to make. And you decide that this is the perfect occasion to open up this bottle or jar. Yes, that sounds like the perfect day.
It’s according to the recipe from the kitchen of our Italian friend Giancarlo from Napoli. It doesn’t get any more authentic. Nor classic. Typical à la Damaris.

Sweet and spicy at the same time, it’s a classic combination. A fatal attractive tasty combination. Because of the sweetness, the sharpness is actually even tastier, even more addictive. Dried figs, date syrup, cinnamon, cumin… together with the red peppers and the soothing effect of the bulgur are simply delicious. And i haven’t even mentioned the green asparagus that are lying there so beautifully on the bulgur. Eye-catching and together with the bulgur they are also mouth-watering.

We eat this together with one or more other vegetable dishes. The tomato itself is deliciously soft, but the rice is really the winner here. It has a great taste itself, but is also great together with another vegetable dish. The rice is so delicious that it deserves this special ‘packaging’. And… in the pan, most of the time there is some rice left that does not fit in the tomatoes… always a pleasant surprise the next day…

It can be so cold and windy outside sometimes, and then soup is your best consolation once you’re back at home. All cold and wet. Soft, warm. You can eat it without thinking. Your mind takes you back to half an hour ago when you were still outside. You’re coming back to life. The energy is coming back. And in the meantime, you’re just enjoying the delicious flavors you’re tasting.