MEMORIES OF A JOYFUL CHILDHOOD

When I was a child I didn't eat anything. Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.

I was a member of that category of enervating children able to chew food for ages rather than give you satisfaction.

Just a few things were to my taste, exactly four : thin soup with cream cheese, boiled spinach with oil and lemon, roasted chicken breast with potatoes purèe.
But, sometimes,  I let myself be fascinated by exotic compositions like the superfamous "fled fowls".
"Are them true fowls, grandma? They don't look like. Awww, they are not? It's bettere if they are not, i was already  impressed.... but.... are they good?"

And I fell in the cage.....discovering that the misterious dish was also delicious. Maybe this trend of giving strange names to food  thanks his birth to those indolent malnurished children.
Anyway..... everybody likes rolls. They are gorgeous, superlicious, and you can do them in a billion versions.....
Everybody is happy with rolls!
Now that I'm an adult I don't eat just 4 things anymore...but "fled fowls" are a must and...You do them in a minute so...why not?

CHICKEN ROLLS

difficulty: easy
time: 20 minutes
for 4 persons

I need:
-400 grams of chicken breast  in slices (4 slices)
-50 grams of ham
-12  sage leaves
-6 cheese slices (cheddar or fontina or emmenthaler)
-salt and pepper
-2 spoons of olive oil
-half glass of milk


tools:
-kitchen knife and cutting board
-a 26 cm diamenter pan
-toothpicks
-a meat pestle 


First of all beat the chicken with the meat pestle until it's flat. Cut each slice in three parts and fill each part with ham, half slice of cheese and a sage leaf.
Roll the slices and fix them with a toothpick. Heat the pan with the oil and when it's hot put inside the rolls, cook them for 3 minutes high flame, turn them, put pepper and then the milk. After 2 minutes lower the flame and cook other 5 minutes covered. you will notice that the melted cheese has done a sauce mixing up with the milk. Stop cooking, put half small spoon of salt, mix and serve....
Delicious!!!!!!!

THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!

Tha's not fair! It's easy, when you have a 10 years old boy , getting back in those elementary school moods and starting speaking like a child...it's unfair, i didn't do it on pourpose.... with my 8 months old girlie around, if I start soiling please tell me somethin'.
Anyway, "that's not fair " is the first thought that comes to my mind when I see (and eat) what I cook and recall  that I'm on a diet and above all that  these dishes fit perfectly in my diet's parameters, and that I'm losing weight!But...how savoury! So...that's not fair! ahahahahhaah!
So, this one is so good and nice to see, here at home everybody loved it so.... why not?

SAVOY CABBAGE "LASAGNE" WITH SMOKED SALMON, EMMENTHALER AND POMEGRANATE
difficulty: easy
time: 20 minutes plus 15 in oven
for 3 people

what I need:
-200 grams of smoked salmon
-150 grams chopped emmenthaler
-50 grams grated pamigiano cheese
-300 grams of clean leeks
-400 grams of savoy cabbage leafs
-2 spoons of olive oil
-salt and pepper
-150 grams of pomegranate 


tools:
-a cutting board
-a kitchen knife
-a stock pot
-a 26 cm diameter pan
-a big plumcake pan ( 25cm lenght)


First of all  boil the cabbage leafs  in salted water for 10 minutes then drain them. Put the oil in the 26 cm pan  heat it ;cut the leek in small slices then put it in the pan with a pinch of salt. Cook it for ten minutes low flame mixing it sometimes and adding just a drop of water if it needs it. Until it cooks  you coul hull the pomegranate, why not?Then clean your hands with lemon or they will get stained.
Preheat the oven 180°.
Cut the big rib in the middle of the savoy leefs , put a layer in the plumcake pan, then a layer of salmon, one of mixed cheeses, the leeks, and restart until you finish the ingredients. The last layer will be of cheese.
Cook in oven for 15 minutes then portionate and garnish  with pomegranate (that's perfect on it!!!)