Simplicity

Simple food for the sick

Signed out of school today for the first time in my life. I made history today!

Prepared a salad for recess tomorrow cos my stomach can't take dairy products (except cheese :P) and fried food. For now. :-)

I love this one dish meal as it is so easy to prepare and you can just store it in the refrigerator for the next day or eat it immediately. Only takes less than 15 minutes!

Hahahah!

Ingredients:
• One head of butterhead
(that's what it's really called!)
• 4 Crabsticks
• 1 small onion
• Grated cheese

Peel the good leaves of the butterhead and rinse them thrice.
Place them in a basket and dry them by shaking the basket and letting it sit for 5 minutes.

Place 4 crab sticks into a bowl of water and microwave it for 3 minutes.
Take it out and slice it.



















Peel the first layer of the small onion away and slice it up - bite sized.
Rinse the onions.

Grate your block of cheese or use store bought grated cheese.






















Place all together and mix well!

Feel free to add in more ingredients of your own choice.

Top it off with balsamic vinegar, some olive oil or thousand island! Enjoy your healthy meal:-)

Secondly,
I made Hasselback potatoes!
These are really simple to make and further more, they taste really really good.

Ingredients
• Russet or Yukon Gold potatoes
• Fine sea salt
• Black pepper
• Olive oil
• Grated cheese
• Butter

Preheat your oven to 210 degree Celsius.

Rinse and scrub the potatoes. You can choose either to peel the skin off or leave it there. I chose to leave it there!

Slice the potatoes thinly but not all the way to the end so that the sections are still connected to the base.

Sprinkle the sea salt and black pepper on the potatoes. Ensure that the insides are coated too!

Douse the potatoes with olive oil and bake them into the oven for 60 minutes (Russet) or 50 minutes (Yukon Gold).

Ten minutes before the potatoes are done, take them out and put your cheese atop the potatoes.

Take the potatoes out when the timer is done and serve hot with a spoon of butter!

What I like about this recipe is that you can eat the potatoes with any sauce you desire - sour cream, butter, tomato sauce etc and it still tastes delectable. Try it out!!

xx Kelda Charis


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www.seasaltwithfood.com
www.buttered-up.com
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