Goat cheese filled sweet pepper with a green salad

When the temperatures rise I always feel like eating salad kind of things. Lots of vegetables and light on the stomach. When you feel the same, you should try this:

I made this salad with sweet pepper filled with goats' cheese TWO times this week. That's how good it is. You can serve it as is or serve it with whole grain bread or a piece of French loaf. The bread will make it more filling of course. The salad can be very simple: just some rocket and some tomatoes for example but feel free to adjust to your own taste. Beetroots are my favorite and when possible, I add them always to mine. 

This is a perfect salad for spring or summer and any other day of year because it's so easy to make, to tasty it can be served just as fancy or informal as you like. 

Ingredients (for 2):
- 1 sweet pepper, sliced in halve lengthwise
- 4 pieces of green asparagus, cooked and sliced in 4 pieced each
- 2 handfuls of rocket
- 1 medium sized beetroot, cooked and diced
- 6 cherry tomatoes
- 2 rolls of fresh goats' cheese (the soft kind, about 100 grams each)
- chilli flakes
- honey 
- black pepper
- salt

How to:
Take the cheese and put each in the cavity of one half pepper. Press well until all fits.
 

Sprinkle some chilli flakes on the cheese and put honey all over the top. 

Put under the grill/broiler in the oven for about ten minutes or until the pepper softens and the cheese is golden on top. 
Meanwhile, spread the rocket on a plate. Scatter the other veggies on top. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on them all to taste. 

this is a plate for one ... mmmmm!

Put the grilled pepper and cheese on top and serve with some fresh bread if you like.

Smakelijk!

Sandwiches for lunch

Busy times call for easy meals. On top of that, the weather is great so I'm craving salads and vegetables all the time. 

For lunch today, I made some very tasty and super easy sandwiches.

I took some white bread slices, cut them in half and put two halves at the time in the toaster. 
After they were just golden brown and crispy, I put some Passendale* cheese on top and finished the sandwich by adding slices of cooked beetroot and a little rocket. After putting the other half of the slice on top, I could indulge.

Nothing fancy, just soooo good. 

*Passendale cheese is a Belgian cheese variety that is kind of sweet in taste and it looks pretty as well with all the little holes everywhere. This is how it looks like:

This is a great combination in Summer I think. Nothing heavy on the stomach and healthy. It would've been much more healthy on a wholewheat bread slice but I didn't have the right kind available at home. 

Smakelijk!