Kippers

Imagine forests next to beaches next to mountains, and you're in the autonomous region of Catalunya (Catalan spelling). At the moment it is quite hot here - especially considering it's about 5C cooler in the mountains!
Kippers
Turn on the grill.
Put the kippers on a foiled baking tray
Halve tomatoes, put them on the kippers, and then season with pepper and salt.
Cook for five minutes, and serve with lemon and bread. We had poppyseeded pain de campagne.

Cheese and garlic mushrooms

You can use any kind of mushrooms for this, but I just used small ones so people can take a few as nibbles.

Ingredients:
3/4 mushrooms per person OR 1 portobello mushroom per person
ricotta
grated mozzarella
3 cloves of garlic
olive oil
fresh basil pesto

Steps:
Preheat the oven to 200C.
Peel the mushrooms and twist the stalks out. Put the stalks on the side to use later
Peel the garlic cloves, crush them, and chop finely.
In a bowl, furiously mix together the garlic, ricotta and mozzarella.
Drizzle the olive oil generously in a baking tray and add the mushroom bases.
Spoon the cheese mixture into the mushrooms and firmly press the mushroom stalk into the mixture.
Cook in the oven for 20 minutes or until the cheese has completely melted.
Spoon the pesto on plates and sit the mushrooms on top.
Serve immediately.

Notes:
This is a simple yet impressive recipe.
You can vary it by changing the cheeses; i.e. stilton for a more pronounced flavour.
You could even marinate the mushrooms, or deep fry instead of oven cooking!