His Chips, Her Chicken Skewers

His Chips

So it all started by her saying lets make something healthy. So I thought to myself home-made chips should at least be healthier than store-bought ones. Here's how it goes:

Step 1: OWN A DEEP FRIER
Step 2: Peel potatoes (e.g.three?)
Step 3: Grate potatoes in to really really thin slices
Step 4: Fry them potatoes in 190 degrees until they are crispy, light brown (not black?)
Step 5: VERY IMPORTANT! Keep on tasting the chips until there is so little left and she is pissed!
Step 6: Take chips out onto a plate with paper towel on the bottom
Step 7: Sprinkle some salt on them (or other spices?)

Her Dip (that made the chips even more unhealthy)

200g of sour cream 

1 tbsp of ketchup

1 clove of grated garlic

Spices: paprika, pepper, all spice (assorted spice mix for red meat)

Her Chicken Skewers

Since he was making something completely UNhealthy, I decided to make chicken skewers and a dip for the chips. Here's how it goes healthily:

400g of chicken thigh pieces
Marinade: mustard, honey, garlic, lemon, oil
1 paprika
1 red onion
Skewers

Make the marinade for the chicken according to your taste. Let the marinated chicken rest in the fridge for an hour. Cut the paprika and onion into larger pieces. Put pieces of chicken, paprika and onion through the skewers. Cook in 200 degrees for about 30 minutes.

Parfait Quickie

He was in a hurry again when it came to making a desert. That's why she had to make cooking a quickie - Parfait Quickie. It was really simple. They chose the following ingredients:

Fresh, cold, smashed strawberries

Cookie crumbs (e.g. Digestive)

Grated white chocolate

Turkish yoghurt

Honey

Layer by layer they added the ingredients into tall glasses: strawberries, crumbs, chocolate, yoghurt, honey, crumbs, chocolate, strawberries, crumbs, chocolate, yoghurt, honey, crumbs, chocolate...

...well you get the idea. Then she added some simple decorations including a few whole strawberries. After this they let the parfait sit in the fridge for a while or well she did. He ate his straight away.

Here's what their Parfait Quickie looked like:

Couscous Controversy

After deciding to make couscous, the store trip became more controversial than intended. He would've been fine with just beef and couscous (or just beef). She insisted to buy mushrooms, thyme, cashews, onions, tomatoes and so on. It was decided (she decided) that they would make Beef Cashew Couscous, Tzatziki and Tomato Salad. While cooking she cut her finger. He knew that sharpening the knives had been a bad idea. Here's the dish she cooked while he whined about how long it took.

Beef Cashew Mix

480g of beef strips

200g mushrooms

1 bundle of spring onions

150g of cashew nuts

Oil, salt, pepper mix, thyme

Slice the mushrooms and chop the spring onions. Fry the cashew nuts slightly on a pan. Cook the beef strips in a bit of oil on a big pan and add the spices and thyme. Let the meat cook on low heat for 20 minutes to make it tender. Add the mushrooms and the cashew nuts to the meat. Let the mixture cook for 5 minutes. Then add the spring onions to the mix. Serve on top of the couscous.

Couscous

4dl couscous

4dl of beef stock

1tbsp of oil

Boil water and add a beef stock cube and oil to it. Take the pot off the heat and add the couscous into it. Stir and let it rest for 5 minutes.

Tzatziki

3dl of Turkish yoghurt

2 cloves of garlic

1/2 cucumber

1 tsp of salt

1 tsp of pepper

(fresh mint)

Grate the garlic and cucumber. Dry the excess water off the cucumbers. Mix garlic and cucumbers into the Turkish yoghurt. Add the salt and pepper to the mixture. Chop and add 3 leaves of fresh mint. 

At dinner she, he and his flatmate enjoyed the Finnish Summer weather in the yard. His flatmate gave her compliments on the food and asked her where she had learned to cook like this. He on the other hand was too hungry to bother.