Genuine Sardinian Parchment Cracker topped with Red Bell Pepper Pesto and Sardinian Cheese

This delicious sauce is easy to prepare. It’s something that nearly everyone would like. The Sardinian Parchment Cracker is very light and thin. The cracker needs only a small amount of pesto and I topped it with Sardinian  Fioro Sardo cheese. A similar cheese would be a pecorino. Instead mixing the cheese into the sauce I prefer to use a vegetable peeler and peel some on the top. That way it’s more layered with textures and flavors and the cheese doesn’t get lost in the mix. I also tried to make this sauce as healthy and light as possible and used a minimum amounts of oil and nuts.

Ingredients

8 Roasted red bell peppers (skin, stems seeds removed) you also need to keep the liquid from the roasted peppers.

2 garlic cloves minced

1 large red thai chili minced

2 oz. pine nuts toasted

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon aleppo red pepper

1/2 cup fresh basil (cleaned, stems removed and I packed the leaves in really tight)

Just combine and blend.

Red Pesto

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Pastrami Lovers Pastrami and Rye Meatloaf as a sandwich with a Red Russian kind of dressing

This recipe makes 18 individual very flavorful moist pastrami and rye flavored meat loaves. I do forking note that I found on WORD HIPPO the correct way to spell and say the plural of Meat Loaf is Meat Loaves. Sounds forking weird but these meat loaves come out delicious and moist.

Set Oven to 350 degree and you will need slightly oiled baking sheets.

Ingredients

2 lbs. lean ground beef (I used 93%)

10 oz. Pastrami Chopped (I had a fatty chunk and trimmed off all the hard fat and had 10 oz. remaining)

2 beaten eggs

5 garlic cloves grated

7 oz. seeded fresh rye bread

3/4 in. ginger grated

1 Tablespoon coriander

1/4 teaspoon fennel seed

1/3 teaspoon white pepper

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 Tablespoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon allspice

pinch cloves

1 lb. silken tofu beaten

3 oz. crispy fried onions

1 teaspoon of liquid smoke

Some cooking oil or cooking spray to oil pans with

fresh ground sea salt

fresh ground black pepper

2 or so Tablespoons of  caraway seeds to sprinkle tops of meat-loaves with.

Directions

Combine all the ingredients except oil, fresh ground sea salt, fresh ground black pepper and caraway seeds.

Measure each loaf into a 4 oz. oval shape. You should have 18 individual loaves.

In about 25 minutes your pastrami meat loaves will be done. They freeze and reheat well. For the Red Russian dressing kind of dressing i mixed up some tomato paste, dijon mustard, spicy relish, prepared horseradish, water, fresh ground sea salt and fresh ground pepper. Any sort of mustard sauce would also go well with them too. They’d go great with the pickled white beets with caraway seeds and also would go great with braised cabbage.

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White Beets

If you like rye bread you’ll forking love pickled white beets with caraway seeds.

Many people roast beets and then marinate them to make pickled beets. I find that they are very easy to pickle when you simply roast them in about 1 part water, 1 part vinegar (I usually use apple cider vinegar or rice wine vinegar) 1 part sugar and about a tablespoon of salt. You want the liquid to go about half way up on the beets.

I started with around three pounds of beets. I just cut my beets in half. Place them in a pan. Top the beets with water, vinegar, sugar and salt and cover with foil. Let them roast at about 375 degrees until soft (about one hour). Keep liquid but pull the beets out to cool. When cool enough to handle the skins just slide off easily.

I slice the beets up and add back to the liquid and add thinly sliced sweet onion. They are better the next day but I got pickled beets already.

I usually like them plain but I do take out a small batch and sprinkle some caraway seeds on the beets to give them a different flavor.

Pickled White Beets with Caraway Seeds

Now I have pickled white beets with caraway seeds. I think even people who don’t like beets would like these. Pickled white beets with caraway seeds are uniquely delicious. If you like rye bread you’ll forking love pickled white beets with caraway seeds!

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