Frying onion, garlic and Asian greens.

Quiche - frying

We later used paper towel to squeeze out the excess liquid so it wouldn't make the quiche all watery.

Quiche - greens

Chief egg beater:

Quiche - beating eggs

Preparing the pastry before 'baking blind'. I don't have any pastry weights so made do with dry black eyed beans from the pantry.  I also just use pre-made sheets of short crust pastry rather than making pastry from scratch:

Quiche - pastry

Adding the ingredients (these included the eggs, milk, fried onions, garlic and greens as well as salami, fresh flat leaf parsley, cheese, pepper, sliced and blotted tomato - I usually just put in whatever I have around at the time so more like pot luck than quiche):

Quiche - filling

Bake in the oven and pull out the finished product:

Quiche

My daughter was so proud!

From one dozen eggs, we made two large quiches like this one as well as a few small ones without pastry which we cooked in the non-stick muffin tray.  I am taking one large one and the small ones into work for morning tea on Wednesday.  The small, pastry-less ones will be for a colleague who is gluten intolerant.  I hope to take a photo for my daughter of my colleagues enjoying her cooking.

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What are you most looking forward to this weekend?

Well, I was looking forward to going out for a friend's 30th birthday tonight (it is Saturday here already) but started feeling achey and fluey yesterday so thinking I might just pop by and give her her present rather than stay for the whole Thai banquet dinner and drinks afterwards. 

I have also been looking forward all week to getting a chance to clean up properly as the bedroom is still full of dust from the renovations last weekend while I was away.  Don't think it occurred to my husband to change the bedding and clean the surfaces etc after someone cut a whole in the wall to put the new door in.  As a consequence, I have been sneezing all week (probably what helped bring on this flu).  I am also planning to take advantage of the sunny reprieve to hand wash my Winter woollens knowing I might have a chance of getting them dry. 

Also planning to make some quiches.  I am on morning tea duty at work this Wednesday (our whole floor takes turns at this) so will make one for there and one for home.  Will probably also make a curry for during the week, cook up some mince for the kids and do some baking.  I really missed not being ahead of the game in my cooking after being away last weekend. Felt like I was playing 'catch up' almost all week. 

I have decided, after speaking to a friend who is an aunty to a 9yo, that my daughter is at the right age for me to start teaching her how to cook real food (ie, not just cakes and things).  Might also stop her complaining about the after school nanny's cooking if she can do it herself! 

My 'real boy' helping make quiche another time:

Quiche

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