LEARN TO COOK
My mom has worked in a pharmacy for eighteen years. She often works long hours. When she comes home it is late, so we eat late in the evening.
I have been helping her to make her day easier by learning how to cook. I can’t cook fancy food, but I can do all the basics that are easy to do and don’t take long.
I want to share with you some of the easy meals I love to cook.Chicken
The most simple and tasteful meat to cook is chicken.
Ingredients: Onions, potatoes, chicken pieces and one Knorrox stock cubes.
- Chop the onion and fry it in a pot. Place the seasoned chicken on the onions.
- Add boiled water and the Knorrox cube and boil for forty-five minutes.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them up in pieces, as you like. Add it to the same pot as the chicken.
- Cook it on a low heat for forty-five minutes. Bear in mind that chicken must be well cooked. If you not sure, cut it open to the bone. If it is still red inside, it should boil more.
When the potatoes are soft, it is also an indicator that the chicken is cooked.
To make this a full meal, add sweet pumpkin and rice.
T-Bone steak:
What you need: foil, oven pan and oil.
Ingredients: t-bone steak, onions, tomatoes, green pepper, brown onion soup
- Fry the onions, tomatoes, green pepper together.
- Cut the foil big enough to wrap the steak in.
- Grease the foil with oil so that the steak won’t stick to it.
- Place the fried ingredients on the foil and place the seasoned steak on top of it.
- Sprinkle the brown onion soup over the steak and pour a tablespoon of water into the foil.
- Wrap and place it in an oiled oven pan.
Bake it in a low heated oven – 160 degrees, for three hours.
Unwrap and flip it in your plate, but watch out for the steam. You will find that the steak is soft and juicy.
Serve with rice and boiled McCain vegetable chunks.
By Deon Labuschagne
Vista Happiness HELPS Ambassador
