Something to clean the pantry of the remaining pickled peppers. And anyway, do you use pickled vegetables for cooking at all? It’s amazing how rarely we do it and yet, these veggies can elevate a dish into something completely amazing. I use pickled cucumbers in stews and I put them sometimes into goulash or similar dishes. They work great with those kinds of dishes. My mother sometimes stuffs pickled bell peppers. Just imagine your summertime ripe stuffed red bell peppers going for a winter getaway to the countryside, loosing the rice and tomatoes and getting packed with minced meat, onions and heavy winter spices. Sounds good?
A dish like this is something you can always count on. Just of few simple ingredients, simple preparation and there’s a dinner you can be proud of.
In Tallinn we live in an awesome apartment, in Lai street, in Old Town. That Old Town, one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is the most beautiful place on Earth. So, in that apartment, in that Old Town walls are thick and we have no doors. There is a wooden, probably Medieval ceiling, pink and blue chandelier, and what is now a bathroom, used to be a wine cellar. The apartment is cold, but cozy. The previous owner, an interior designer, did a hell of a good job.
Smells of autumn. Of tomatoes and roasted peppers. Here and there, the smell of pork chops frying in a pan lingers around open windows…