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I have always liked eating bread and cheese; feta, cheddar, parmesan \u2013 or, any of the slightly pungent cheeses; on fresh, crusty bread it is the heavenly taste for me.<\/p>\n

I remember, being a little girl, a toddler like child, I would snick into our kitchen at the first opportunity, crawl to the fridge, and open it with difficulty. My goal was to pinch and chew some piece of cheese. I was so determined to the activity that sometimes my mom would find me half in into the freeze, my fat legs dangling out of it, trying to reach the cheese plate while keeping balance; or, perhaps, from joy to be so near to my point of interest.<\/p>\n

My mom would laugh, at first; and say, \u2018just ask; it\u2019s not difficult my girl, is it? And you\u2019ll have a small slice\u2026\u2019 Soon however she realized that she could use my obvious keenness for cheese to tempt me, and I\u2019d say, with much success. \u2018Veggies first\u2026\u2019 she would order in a soft voice, pointing at my plate where the greens and the carrots, displayed in different patterns, were pushed aside and around the dish with my fork, avoiding my mouth.<\/p>\n

The point is that the habit and pleasure of eating bread and cheese, instead of bread and butter pure, or with other ingredients on top of it, has stayed with me for always. In particular, my most enjoyable culinary delicacy is when the bread is white, which, with cheese, I could eat for days and days, without any other foodstuff in my nutritional arrangements; becoming an obsession, an addiction, like the chocolate-dependency is for some? Perhaps; the habit is totally unhealthy because of the diet dullness, the unbalanced consumption of carbohydrates\u00a0 (refined wheat flour, meaning \u2018manipulated product\u2019!), the lack of vitamins and minerals and the saturated fat in the cheese, as my sister preaches; and, the whole thing is fattening, unless its consumption is moderated and enriched with healthier food, -like greens and red veggies.<\/p>\n

I must admit that my habit has nothing to do with being lazy in the kitchen. I cook almost daily, sometimes copying elaborated recipes; there are at least twenty cookery books in my selves written by some of the best chefs internationally, with advice and pictures. So I cook, and often the result is pleasing, taste-wise.<\/p>\n

But, following such recipes, it is not what one would think a single person needs, quantity-wise. It could easily feed eight people; and so, it is often that our neighbor\u2019s blond cat, Bubble, has a feast. Now, where have I heard cats don\u2019t like routines? Each time I step out of my front door, Bubble is waiting on the pavement and follows me around, industriously rubbing his fur to my legs as cats do when they are starving; which, starving, he is not. \u00a0\u2018Just likes his treat!\u2019 my neighbor mocks.<\/p>\n

The story is that trying to moderate my absolute habit of eating unhealthy, I came out with a recipe, a kind of a cheese pie, delicious and healthier than white bread and cheese; for this, I tampered with Jamie\u2019s \u2018fast and easy\u00a0dough for bread\u2019 recipe, and the use of a mixture of low-fat cheese\u2019s that satisfies both my palate and my belly.<\/p>\n

Here it is and I hope you\u2019d like it:<\/p>\n

One easy and healthy, cheese pie for an all-hour<\/strong>s-snack<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a bowl, I put:<\/p>\n