Recipe!
I was doing some baking this evening , for our family reunion that we're having at the weekend, and thought I'd stick down the receipe for the quiche I made.
This is like all my receipes - in other words very vague on quantities. Also like all my receipes, it's a variation on a theme. A quiche is essentially just an omelette in a pastry case. Everything else you put in it is extra. I'm lazy when it comes to making pastry, and normally use the frozen stuff you can get - short crust, mind.
What you need
Enough pastry to fill your flan case. No I have no idea how much that is, I don't know how big your flan case is. Mine's 9 inches.
Eggs, how many you need depends on how big they are and the size of your flan case. Today I used 5 large eggs.
pinch salt
pepper
You can pretty much put anything in the quiche - today I used onion, broccoli and cheese, at other times I might have mushrooms, peppers, shallots, asparagus, leeks, courgettes, etc etc. I nearly always have cheese.
This is what I did today.
Put the oven on to warm up
Parboiled the broccoli and chopped the onion (it was a large Spanish onion)
simmered the onion
rolled out the pastry and put it into the flan case
Put the onion and the broccoli into the bottom of the flan case
Grated the cheese (about 200 grams of mature cheddar)
mixed the eggs
Put the cheese in with the eggs and poured the mixture over the broccoli and onion.
Baked it at gas mark 4 for about three quarters of an hour (I think)
It's now cooling in the kitchen and looks delicious.
This is like all my receipes - in other words very vague on quantities. Also like all my receipes, it's a variation on a theme. A quiche is essentially just an omelette in a pastry case. Everything else you put in it is extra. I'm lazy when it comes to making pastry, and normally use the frozen stuff you can get - short crust, mind.
What you need
Enough pastry to fill your flan case. No I have no idea how much that is, I don't know how big your flan case is. Mine's 9 inches.
Eggs, how many you need depends on how big they are and the size of your flan case. Today I used 5 large eggs.
pinch salt
pepper
You can pretty much put anything in the quiche - today I used onion, broccoli and cheese, at other times I might have mushrooms, peppers, shallots, asparagus, leeks, courgettes, etc etc. I nearly always have cheese.
This is what I did today.
Put the oven on to warm up
Parboiled the broccoli and chopped the onion (it was a large Spanish onion)
simmered the onion
rolled out the pastry and put it into the flan case
Put the onion and the broccoli into the bottom of the flan case
Grated the cheese (about 200 grams of mature cheddar)
mixed the eggs
Put the cheese in with the eggs and poured the mixture over the broccoli and onion.
Baked it at gas mark 4 for about three quarters of an hour (I think)
It's now cooling in the kitchen and looks delicious.