Rösti

Dear Whimsical Readers,

How are you today whimsical readers? The dish I am about to share its one of the swiss national dish! It's call ROSTI! This is a famous Swiss breakfast for people like farmers back in the 50's. It is termed as "poor man's food" because it's mainly made out of potatoes only! It's just as simple as that! Well, nowadays it is not really considered a poor man's dish anymore.

Rösti

There are many ways you can "spice" up your Rösti, for example, you can add a variety of meat on top with it to suit your taste. As for me, I like to stick to as old school as possible. I like the authentic taste to it. Which is add "nothing". Don't worry, I will recommend which meat would be most suitable to add on to your version of the Rösti. I would highly suggest Streaky Bacon. Smokey Salmon and German/Brititsh Sausages goes really well too!

Ingredients: Serves 2
2 Tbsp of Salted Butter (1 tsbp for each Rösti)
2 Russet Potatoes
2 Eggs
100gm Parmesan Cheese
Salt and Pepper
Sour Cream

Method:
1. Grate the potatoes when it's raw! That's if you got time. I would prefer to slice it (even though it takes a lot of time) I dislike the texture of grated potatoes, I prefer them sliced thinly.
2. Beat the Eggs and mix it into the grated/sliced potatoes, add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Fry the rosti right after the butter melts, throw in 1 handful of cheese and fry till it turns golden brown and crisp on both side. *careful when you turnover the rosti*
5. Serve the Rösti, top up with 1 table spoon of sour cream!

YUMMY! Enjoy!

Note: if 1 Russet potato makes the Rösti too big to handle in your pan, you can spilt them in half so you would end up with 2 smaller Röstis per person.

Yours Truly,
The Whimsical Readers

Potato Salad

Dearest Whimsical Readers,

Need a quick munch and yet gives you a full and happy stomach? Potato Salad never disappoints me. You can either treat this as an entree for your dinner, or a simple meal for your lunch. Here's how it goes:

Ingredients:
2 Russet Potato (US) (preferably medium sized)
1 Green Apple (I like the sour taste to it)
2 Shallots
10 Cherry Tomato (slide into half)
2 Eggs (boiled)
4 Rashers of Streaky Bacon
Salt and Pepper
Mayonnaise (preferably KRAFT)

Method:
(Preparation)
1. Chop the potatoes into cubes and boil them (takes about 15-20 minutes)
2. Boiled the eggs (takes about 10-15 minutes)
3. While your potatoes and eggs are boiling it's way, slice your cherry tomatoes into half, put them into the chiller.
4. I prefer not to remove apple's skin, I love the skin! Chop them into cubes and place them into the chiller
5. Slice the shallots into thin slices.
6. Fry the Bacon till crispy, chop them into chunks.
7. When the potatoes and eggs are ready, drain them, leave it to cool *slice the eggs into quarters*
8. Add all of the ingredients into a nice salad serving bowl, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Eggs, Apple, Bacon, Shallots and finally the Mayonnaise. Salt and Pepper to taste.

Note: This dish you will get to taste, salty, sour and sweet. Enjoy!


Your truly,
Whimsical Buddies