The Comfort Treehouse Bake
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TypeSide dish
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 23, 2026
Potato and zucchini layers stacked like a treehouse: comforting, warm, and a wink to the crazy treehouse series.
A warm oven bake of layered potato, zucchini, and cheese, built as a treehouse with several floors. On the plate, you see treehouse towers: stacked slices, with a chive stem as a ladder. A comforting side dish for difficult times, nodding to the crazy treehouse books.
Ingredients
- 600 g waxy potatoes
- 2 zucchinis
- 1 red bell pepper
- 100 g grated cheese
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp thyme
- pinch pepper and salt
- 4 chive stems
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Peel the potatoes and slice into thin rounds.
- Slice the zucchinis into 1 cm thick rounds.
- Chop the onion and finely chop the garlic.
- Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, sauté onion and garlic until translucent.
- Slice the bell pepper into strips.
- Grease an oven dish. Build the treehouse: stack alternating potato and zucchini slices (3-4 layers per tower), adding some onion, garlic, and bell pepper between layers.
- Repeat until you have 3-4 towers per person (12-16 total).
- Sprinkle with thyme, pepper, and salt.
- Top the towers with grated cheese.
- Bake 25-30 minutes until golden and cooked through.
- Insert a chive stem in each tower as a ladder.
Serving notes
- Serve on a large platter, towers grouped like a treehouse.
- Add a spoonful of soft cream cheese as a dip.