Brie Cheese Appetizer

Ingredients :
(Servig for 8)
* 1 (8 ounce) wheel Brie cheese
* 3 tablespoons apricot preserves
* 1/2 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
* 1 egg white

Directions :
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
Slice one wheel of Brie cheese in half so you have 2 circles of cheese.
Spread apricot or peach preserves on (the cut side) half of one circle of brie.
Make sandwich out of the two halves of Brie, so that the preserves are in the center of both halves.
Wrap the entire wheel of Brie with one sheet of puffed pastry and flip the entire concoction onto the prepared cooking sheet so the seam is on bottom.
Brush the puffed pastry with the egg white.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the pastry in golden brown. Serve immediately.

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Fresh spaghetti with green olives

Ingredients :
Fresh spaghetti with green olives - for 4 persons
500 g grams of fresh spaghetti
100 g of stoned/pitted small green olives
50 g of dried preserved tomatoes
30 g of anchovy filets preserved in oil
10 g of capers
a few leaves of basil
8 centiliters of olive oil
table salt and freshly ground black pepper


Direction :
Make 5 liters of water boiling
While water is heating, heat the olive oil in a pan, add the olives, the anchovy filet cut in 2 parts, the dried tomatoes cut in big dice and the capers
Let them sweat in the covered pan during 5 minutes
When the water is boiling, salt it and pour the spaghetti making them standing up, then stir with a fork and count 2 minutes of cooking after water is boiling again
Quickly drain the spaghetti and add the foodstuff prepared in the pan, blend quickly with a wooden spoon, add (very few) table salt and some black pepper
Place the spaghetti very hot in a large hollow dish with minced basil leaves and eat it with a good Bandol (rosé wine from the Provence area) this nice beautiful and friendly dish

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