From early summer markets are full of fruits and vegetables to us and the summer food immediately associate … it’s the season of strawberry, apple, young potatoes, lettuce and a variety of something you always forget: marine food - fish and shellfish - is excellent in Roasting, and the same goes for the meat that marinade briefly in olive oil with fresh herbs.

Unlike the long winter, caloric cooking, food preparation, summer is fast and easy - tomatoes and slices of bread and mozzarella, salads pleased spiced only with light cream or oil, light biscuits with the handful of fruit on them as a dessert. The only thing you can pose a problem is what to take from all this.

Nothing is more beautiful than bowls full of cherries for dessert, juicy peaches or sweet water melon that should satisfy your thirst … This so-called: solar food carries himself in the taste and smell of long warm days and pleasant relaxing evenings.

Here are some suggestions as how to better use of foods that are now available:

1. Soup of fried summer vegetables

Ingredients:

200 g tomatoes
1 medium-large onion threaded
2-3 carrots, threaded on sticks
1 small fennel, serrate
2 garlic 
3 tablespoons olive oil
1.5 l hot water
salt and pepper
2 laurel leaf
100 g of pasta soup
a little fresh basil
parmesan

Preparation: warm oven to 220 ° C. Put in tomato sheet for baking together with onions, carrots, and garlic fennel. Douche the vegetables with olive oil, so bake for about 40 minutes until vegetables does not become soft and golden color. Remove vegetables from oven and put in large pot and douche some water. Put some salt, pepper and bay leaf. Let it boil, reduce the fire and cook 20 minutes. Add the basil and pasta for soup, and briefly cook it. Serve soup in pots, decorate with parmesan and basil leaves.

2. The grilled chicken with buttered of seasoning herbs

Ingredients:

4 pieces of cleaned chicken breasts
olive oil
juice from one lemon, save the crust for butter
3-4 small chop chili pepper
4  chop garlic
pepper

For the butter:

2-3 chop garlic
150 g butter 
lemon crust
sea salt

Preparation: Chicken breasts put in shallow vessel and put on it 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil and lime juice. In the meat put chili pepper, garlic and pepper. Cover and leave to cool in marinade a few hours. For the preparation of butter, finally chop garlic and add the butter, which was at room temperature. Mix lemon crust and salt. Form the butter and put it in plastic sheeting and put in refrigerator so it can calcify. Warm barbecue at a lower temperature to cook the meat evenly. When the meat is done, use it prepared with butter and fresh mixed salad.

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