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Roasted Butternut Squash, Leek and Fried Sage Soup

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Roasted Butternut squash with leeks, crispy fried sage and fresh cream to top it up. Plus some extra “chef’s secrets” to bring your soup from boring to an exquisite chef soup.  I know… it might look like those million others butternut squash soups out there, but believe… this one is far from the “everyday life” soup. It’s a under 10 ingredients soup, no need for thickeners, nor extra broth, the butternut squash takes care of all that at once. Lucky you, I have a few secret tricks for you to upgrade your soups, especially this one. Follow those few easy steps to bring this soup, and others, to another level. First the roasting needs to be well done, second go “heavy” on the black pepper and third, the last but not the least; a dash of cider vinegar in the end. Those 3 simple yet highly important steps are what will make this soup step out from…

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Crispy Sage and Cured ham Vodka sauce Pasta

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vodka pasta ham sage

After a week of german recipes… it’s time to go back to an old good friend called Pasta. This pasta is ridiculously addictive, be aware. I have no idea if it’s the mix of texture or the mix of flavors that makes it so irresistible. It’s a terribly simple recipe too, also done under 20 minutes. If you already know vodka sauce you know it’s a pinky cream sauce colored by some tomatoes, usually a tomato paste, but this version I’ve simply used a few fresh cherry tomatoes. It’s called vodka sauce but really there isn’t much vodka in it and obviously it doesn’t really taste like it at all. The vodka here is used mainly as a stabilizer to the acidity of the tomato and the cream which would be impossible to mix without some type of alcohol in the sauce. The vodka could also be substitute by a white wine.…

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