Raisin ,Walnut Bread

Ingredients:

1. All Purpose Flour- 3 Cups
2. Yeast -2 Tsp
3. Salt- 1 Tsp
4. Honey-2 Tsp
5. Warm Water-1 cup 

Method:

Knead Togetther all the ingredients ..Add water carefully .We dont want it to be watery ...

Keep it for 45 min . Ideally inside the oven so that its not disturbed.

Knead it again.And put a slit with a knife and sprinkle water using your hands,

Put it for another an hour or so .

Preheat the oven for 410 and set the clock for 55 min or one hour.

Cream of Fresh Tomato Soup

Ingredients


3 tablespoons good olive oil
1 1/2 cups chopped red onions (2 onions)
2 carrots, unpeeled and chopped
1 tablespoon minced garlic (3 cloves)
4 pounds vine-ripened tomatoes, coarsely chopped (5 large)
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1/4 cup packed chopped fresh basil leaves, plus julienned basil leaves, for garnish
3 cups chicken stock, preferably homemade
1 tablespoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
3/4 cup heavy cream
Croutons, for garnish

Directions
Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-low heat. Add the onions and carrots and saute for about 10 minutes, until very tender. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, sugar, tomato paste, basil, chicken stock, salt, and pepper and stir well. Bring the soup to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer, uncovered, for 30 to 40 minutes, until the tomatoes are very tender.

Add the cream to the soup and process it through a food mill into a bowl, discarding only the dry pulp that's left. Reheat the soup over low heat just until hot and serve with julienned basil leaves and/or croutons.

Giant Beans(Greek Recipe)

Ingredients:

1. Greek Beans
2. Tomato Juice-3 Cups or canned tomato
3. Onion-1 Big chopped and diced
4. Carrots-2
5. Garlic-5 cloves
6. Capsicum-1/2
7. Tomato Paste-1Tbs
8. Extra Virgin Olive Oil-1 Cup
9. Sugar-3 Tsp
10. Spring Onions-4
11. Oregeno
12. Dill
13. Salt and Freshly crushed pepper to taste

Method:

• Soak the beans overnight in cold water.Cook it the next day with salt.Cook it until its soft
• Take a pan ,add olive oil.
• Saute onions,carrots,capsicum one after another.
• Add garlic,tomato past to it.
• Then add tomato juice 
• Saute for 5 min and then add sugar.Add salt and freshly crushed pepper into it .
• Preheat the oven to 400 degree
• Take Baking Pan add beans first to it and then the sauce we made into.
• Add oregeno into it.and also dill to it.Taste for salt.
• See whether the water is enough so that beans are fully covered.
• Bake it for one hour.

If you want it have more carmalised feel to it ..put the oven for 500,press custom broil and bake it for 5 min.

Recipe courtesy by my good friend Melina..Cheers