Easy Potato Pie

Ingredients:

2 pounds White Potatoes

3 Carrot, peeled and cut into match stick sizes

2 Onion, thinly sliced

3 Eggs

1/3 cup Plain Flour

3 sprigs Dill, finely chopped

1/3 cup Vegetable Oil

1 1/3 tablespoons Salt

1 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper

Instruction:

Pre heat the oven to 350F/ 175C.

1. Peel the potatoes and rinse.

While I was looking away, my son managed to get a potato from the countertop and had a big bite of it.  He thought it was an apple.  He spilt it out right away.

2.  Use the peeler, peel each potato into thin slices.

3. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

4. Bake it for about 70 minutes.  Serve in warm.

Natural Peach Yogurt Popsicles

Ingredients: 

make about 8 -10 popsicles

    3 cups Fresh Peaches, diced and pitted

1/2 cup Greek Yogurt (vanilla flavour)

1/4 cup Coconut Milk

3 tablespoons Honey

2 teaspoons Freshly squeezed Lemon Juice

                                                                      Instruction:

  

1. Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.  Puree them until smooth.

2. Pour the mixture in each of the popsicle moulds.

3. Freeze until set.

4. To unmold, run some warm hot around outside of each mould and then gently twist.

Mushroom Soup

Ingredients: about 8 servings

4 cups White Mushroom, rinsed and roughly chopped

4 cups Vegetable Stock

2 Potatoes, medium size, peeled and diced

1 Onion, diced

6 Garlic Gloves, diced

1 1/2 tablespoon Fresh Dill, chopped

1/4 cup Butter

1/3 cup Whole Milk

Salt to taste

Instruction:

1. Melt butter in a pot.  Add garlic and onion.  Sauté them for about 2 minutes over high heat.

2. Add mushrooms, potatoes, and dill.  Sauté them until the mushrooms are shrunk and the potatoes are softened, about 10 minutes.

3. Pour in vegetable stock.

4. Puree the vegetables until the soup is fine and smooth.

5. Cook the soup for another 10 minutes.  Scoop out the foam on the surface during the time.

6. Turn off the heat.  Stir in the milk and add salt to taste.  Serve in warm.

Vanilla Cookie Hearts

Ingredients: make about 50 cookies

2 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour

75 gram Unsalted Butter, soften

90 gram Cream Cheese

270 gram White Sugar

1 Egg

1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Food colorants (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow) 

Instruction:

1. With a folk, whisk butter and cream cheese together until smooth.  

2. Add sugar, egg, salt, and vanilla extract, whisk until they are well combined. 

3. Sift in flour and baking powder.  Mix and form a soft dough with a spatula.

4. Dive the dough into three small doughs and a large dough.  Tint each small doughs with a different food colorant.  Tint the large dough with yellow.

5. Roll one of the small dough into a ball.  Add the same amount of the yellow dough on top and roll it into a ball again.  This part is very causal, you can mix and match any sort of colours as your desire.

6. Place each coloured dough in individual zip bag.  Roll them into 1mm thick sheets.  Chill them for about an hour.

7. With a heart shape cookie cutter, cut out as many hearts as you may.  Collect the remnant, form it together into a ball, and then roll it into a 1mm sheet again, in order to cut out more heart cookie doughs. Repeat this step until all the doughs are used up. 

8. Place the cookie doughs on a baking sheet.  Bake them at 350F/175C for about 10 minutes.

9. Allow the cookies cool completely before storing them into an air-tight container. 

Summer Couscous Salad

Ingredients:

2 cups Couscous

3/4 cup Raisins

1/3 cup Dried Mango, diced

1 Red Bell Pepper, diced

1 Orange Bell Pepper, diced

15 gram Cashew, chopped

15 gram Walnut, chopped

15 gram Pumpkin Seeds, chopped

30 gram Flaxseed Meal

1/4 cup Honey

1 Lemon, juice and zest

1 Lime, juice and zest

1 tablespoon Minced Garlic

2 tablespoons Paprika

Salt and Pepper to taste

Instruction:

1. Pour hot water over couscous until covered.  Leave it with a lid on for about 10 minutes.  Loosen the cooked couscous with a folk.

2. Add the rest of the ingredients and toss until mixed thoroughly.

3. Chill it for about an hour before serve.

Cocoa Banana Walnut Energy Drink

Ingredients: 2 servings

1 1/2 cup Whole Milk, cold

2 Bananas

1/3 cup Roasted Walnut

2 tablespoons Cocoa Powder

1 tablespoon Honey

Instruction:

1. Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Red Bean Rice

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Red Beans

1 cup Rice

3/4 Water

Instruction:

1. Soak the red beans in water the night before.  Drain.

2. Add rice, water, and the red beans in a rice cooker.  Cook for an hour.

Other than a bowl of nutritious rice, my son also had a great afternoon playing with the red beans...

Pour into here, and pour into there...

Uh-oh!

I'm stepping on them...

Being a good boy, cleaning up the beans