Crushed Potatoes with Greens and Beans

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A delicious way of preparing potato. Use yellow tomatoes for the dressing, the taste will be the same with red tomatoes but the colour so much more beautiful when it is all just yellow.

Serves 4

12 boiled new potatoes
Fresh thyme
Coarse salt
Olive oil

100 g fresh spinach
1 avocado, thinly sliced
1 fennel bulb, very thinly sliced (best to use a mandolin)
Mixed beans (kidney-, butter-, chickpeas…)

Dressing:
2 large, yellow tomatoes, cut into chunks
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp Dijon mustard
A dash of salt

1. Set the oven at 215C
2. Take each boiled potato and, with a spoon, slightly press down the middle crushing the potato slightly. Put some thyme and salt on top.
3. Drizzle a baking sheet with olive oil and place the potatoes on top. Pour some additional oil over the potatoes. Bake for 20 minutes.
4. Cut up the avocado and fennel and place in a bowl together with the beans and the spinach.
5. Mix the ingredients for the dressing in a blender. Save some dressing for decorating the plate with and toss the rest with the greens in the bowl.

Potato and Parsnip Bake with Ham

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A straightforward, easy recipe, but oh so tasty! Guests tell me it is possibly the best potato casserole they’ve had!

6 potatoes, thinly sliced
1 parsnip, thinly sliced
250 ml single cream
100-200 ml Gruyere cheese, grated
Salt and pepper
A few tablespoons of butter

Sliced cooked ham
Cucumber
Mango
Herbs
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  1. Oven at 180C
  2. Grease a casserole
  3. Layer potato, parsnip, salt and pepper and a bit of cheese.
  4. Continue layering with a last layer of potato.
  5. Finish by pouring the cream and placing a few knobs of butter on top.
  6. In oven 50-60 minutes.
  7. Serve with ham, decorated with cucumber, mango and herbs.

Potato Cake with Salmon and Caviar

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This potato cake, with smoked salmon and caviar, is a wonderful starter to a light meal or a can be a hearty lunch if served with bacon and cranberry sauce (see photo below).

Serves 6

6 large potatoes, finely grated
Salt and pepper
3 tbsp of butter

6 slices of smoked salmon
50g lumpfish caviar
Crème fraiche
Red onion, chopped (optional)

In a fryingpan, melt some butter and add 1/6th of the grated potato forming a thin potato cake. Fry for 5-6 minutes per side, until golden brown. Fry 1-2 cakes at the time.
Serve with salmon, crème fraiche and caviar.

Or, for a lunch, serve with bacon and cranberry sauce.

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