Ugh....

Yesterday's dinner was a very nice meat "thing". Cooked to perfection!

Ingredients:

• Beef
• Smoked bacon strips or prosciutto crudo (any but not Parma ham)
• Cheese - pecorino romano (grana padano or parmigiano reggiano may be used)
• Brandy or cognac (I used Cognac XO)
• Aceto balsamico (balsamic vinegar)
• Tomatoes
• Garlic
• Onions
• Rice paper
• Olive oil
  

Prepare oven. Slice beef thinly, sprinkle with aceto balsamico and set aside.
Fry chopped onions till they are golden, add finely shopped garlic.
When you feel garlic giving away it flavor, immediately add chopped tomatoes(no skin and seeds) to preserve taste of garlic. Let it simmer away for a few minutes.
Grate cheese to be our holder of layers...
Prepare 2 rice paper sheets to be our base.
Line a baking bowl with olive oil and place 1 moist rice paper on the bottom.
Place first beef strips onto the rice paper and pour cheese generously place bacon on to of cheese. Leave a small window to see the cheese. Pour more cheese on top of bacon and make a hole though the window with you finger.
Pour some brandy or brandy into the hole 30ml is enough.
Place more beef on top of cheese.
Proceed making as many layers as you want/can. Brandy is optional for the rest of the layers...
You can add some other spices there: pepper, lemon, parsley, salary, basil, mint, rosemary and such...

On top place the 2nd sheet of rice paper and pout the tomato-garlic-onion sauce over it.
To hold the layers together you may want to fix them with wooden toothpicks.

Cover and place bowl into the oven.Cook till beef is cooked.
Bet the bowl out of the oven remove cover sprinkle some brandy over it and coverless place back into the oven for 5 minutes. Make sure it doesn't catch fire....
Turn over the bowl over the serving plate to get it out, remove extraneous sauce (to be served separately).

Enjoy!