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Food Is My Love Language

Recipe by Andy Cooks on YouTubeAdded 28 October 2026.
  • 35 min
  • Serves 2
  • 11 ingredients

15 minutes to prep, 20 to cook. A heartfelt, simple dish that celebrates love through food. It combines buttery sautéed onions, cabbage, and shredded potatoes with a creamy cheese mixture, a delicate poached egg, and a golden crepe, making a comforting, vegetarian meal that's easy to prepare.

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Food Is My Love Language by Andy Cooks, a frame from the YouTube video

Ingredients

2 servingsMetric

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Amounts as Andy Cooks gives them. Metric converts supported weights and liquids, and oven temperatures; spoon measures and counts stay as written.

Method

  1. 1

    Heat a pan on a gas stove and add a block of butter.

  2. 2

    Add sliced white onion to the pan and sprinkle with salt; cook until softened.

  3. 3

    Add sliced white cabbage to the onion mixture and continue cooking.

  4. 4

    In a separate bowl, combine shredded cheese, a pinch of salt, and olive oil; mix well.

  5. 5

    Peel and grate a potato, then add the shredded potatoes to the pan with the melting butter and sauté until golden.

  6. 6

    Chop chives and set aside.

  7. 7

    Prepare a crepe by pouring batter into a hot skillet and cooking until lightly browned on both sides.

  8. 8

    Poach an egg in boiling water, then drizzle olive oil over the poached egg.

  9. 9

    Sprinkle chopped green herbs over the poached egg.

  10. 10

    Serve the sautéed vegetables and potatoes alongside the cheese mixture, crepe, and poached egg, garnished with chopped chives.

Tips while you cook

Melt butter fully before adding onions
Heat the pan and add the butter block, allowing it to melt completely before introducing the sliced onion.
Sauté shredded potatoes until golden
After adding the grated potato to the butter, cook it until it turns golden for texture.
Poach egg then drizzle olive oil
Poach the egg in boiling water, then finish by drizzling olive oil over it before serving.

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