Warm Bananas with Ice Cream

Ingredients:

2 bananas

2 tablespoon of sugar

2 tablespoon of butter
A sprinkle of cinnamon

Ice Cream

Directions: 

Place butter and sugar in frying pan, let melt. 

Meanwhile, slice bananas in half vertically. 

Then place bananas in pan with sugar butter mixture. 

Heat until warm. 
Serve with ice cream (sprinkle cinnamon on top) and make sure you pour the sweet mixture on your bananas and ice cream!

This is super simple, like, simple enough for me, but it taste sooooo good. And the first time we did it, we realized our butter was salted, but the salted butter is actually my preference because the extra flavor it gives is perfection.

Our Salsa Obsession (with Chips)

Believe me when I say we're addicted to this.

Ingredients:

2 Bell peppers (or literally any kind of peppers that you can find. But for the bulk of it, you probably want a fairly mild pepper. Or you can go all out with the spice. Up to you.)

2 Tomatoes

1 Onion

½ Cup of Vinegar

Salt and Pepper  

Directions: 

Chop up all ingredients. 

Mix in vinegar, season with salt and pepper to taste.

Other variations adding parsley, cilantro, cucumbers, or even jalapeños.

Our first salsa attempt we actually blended.. and also, we had too much onion and not enough tomato and it turned out like this:

Hello green oniony salsa!

But, ya know, we got it right the next time and it turned out like this: 

Yummm.

And of course, you don't have to just have it on chips. You can put it on salad or eggs or just eat it straight...

We're so obsessed with this food that a common dinner for us is to eat chips and salsa and salad. We'll go through a head of lettuce and half a container of salsa and approximately half a bag of tortilla chips. It's glorious.

Salt & Pepper: An Introduction

If we had codenames, we would be Salt and Pepper. I don’t think we would have any debate about this. We just know that this would be true. Maybe if I become a top secret agent or spy someday, I can have Salt be my codename. 

When Nef and I met for the first time over Skype, I was glad to hear that she liked to cook. I like food. But cooking? I’d prefer to have food be magically ready whenever I want it and not have to deal with the whole process of cooking.

Now that we’re living together in Panama, I’ve gotten more used to cooking. Whereas I pretty much never made my own dinner in the US (I handled most of my breakfasts and lunches), I’m having to help with the making of my dinner almost every night! Thankfully, I’m not doing it alone. I am Sou-Chef Salt to Chef Pepper. I’ve tried to tell her to assume I know how to do nothing in the kitchen, but she hates to make assumptions of people, so she tends to give me the benefit of the doubt that I know what I’m doing. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do something wrong that probably is contained in the Book of Common Kitchen Sense and Nef just gives me a look and we laugh.

I use use more salt on my food, Nef uses more pepper. It’s as simple as that. We may love some of the same meals, and we like to eat pretty healthily, but we season things differently. Nosotras estamos hermanas, pero, same household doesn’t mean same people. From pesto to sugar cookies, WE’RE doing to cooking here in Panama. Taking control of our lives, one independent meal at a time.

~Salt

I’m a foodie who likes to cook, but LOVES to bake. I season with pepper but my heart belongs to sugar. I love sweets but I also like to be on the healthy side which is why fruit is definitely my go to food and favorite food group. I like making my own food, it gives me freedom to create master pieces and add a personal twist on classics. Some people think cooking is a science I look at it as an art. Short and sweet with a kick.

~Pepper