Rye crisps with fresh vegetables and cottage cheese

Guess what, I'm on holiday again. Last week was very hectic, busy, full of work etc., but now I can have a little break. I'm visiting my family in Finland, so it's a suitable time to post about rye crisp canapés. I made them with different vegetables and cottage cheese. These were very nice spring snacks, yet somewhat filling thanks to cottage cheese and rye.

These are the ingredients I used:

Rye crisps

Baby plum tomatoes

Cucumber

Radishes

Fresh basil

Cottage cheese

Salt + ground black pepper

I'm buying the rice crisps in Finland whenever I'm on holiday, but you can maybe get similar products where ever you live.

To make the canapés I just chopped baby plum tomatoes, cucumber, radishes and fresh basil into small cubes and filled some rye crisps with them and cottage cheese. 

Have a nice week!

Your VegHog

Cucumber salad with pepper and soft cheese dip

This is a light and summery salad with a tasty soft cheese dip and a fresh cucumber. Enjoy it as a snack or a side dish. The pepper dip also works beautifully with vegetable sticks, bread sticks, crisps, whatever you can think of!

This is all you need:

1 cucumber

1 orange romano pepper

150g plain light soft cheese

1 small onion

1 garlic clove

Small bunch of chives

Olive oil for frying

Salt & Pepper

First make the dip. Cut the pepper into thin and small strings and chop the onion and garlic finely. Fry these in olive oil and let simmer under the lid for about 15 minutes at moderate heat. Season with salt and pepper. Mix the veg with the soft cheese and add the chives.

Peel the cucumber and cut it into four pieces. Spread the pepper dip on the cucumber halves and enjoy.

Stay hungry!

Your VegHog