The Quiche Factory

homemade quiche crust after letting it rest an hour in the fridge

To make this amount of quiche crust I doubled down on a previously posted recipe.

chopped pancetta and onion, a dab of olive oil and herbs de provence and ground black pepper

bell peppers from the garden, will chop one into the mushroom, onion, potato mix.

chopped swiss

Sauteed mushrrom, onion, bell pepper, and potatoes.  (potatoes I boiled halfway before adding to the pan- 20min)

All done!

Quiche Paysanne

Quiche Lorraine

Tartelette a la moutarde, tomate et poivron.

Quiche Paysanne
in extra large quiche pan
I used 4 eggs and eyed out the milk proll round 1 1/2 cups.  Mix around and add the filling and around 1 cup of chopped swiss.  Quiche crust was precooked for 10min~ at 350-400.  Dump in the filling and even out with a spoon or something.  Place in oven for 35min at 400 or til brown

Quiche Lorraine
Chopped pancetta in place of lardon (was too salty, will do bacon next time), cooked down in a pan with a small amount of onions for extra flavor, in place of shallots.  For a medium quiche mold I used 3 eggs and eyed out milk, mixed around, added a cup of chopped swiss.  I had placed the filling in the fridge. Quiche crust has been precooked and pour the filling in.  Even it out and place in oven for 35min at 400 or til brown

Tartelette a la moutard, tomate, et poivron
precook the quiche crust, I made tartelettes, mini size, spread amora mustard (i guess a dijon mustard could work) with back of a tablespoon.  Place sliced tomato and pepper on top with a touch of s/p. I cooked for 35min at 400 with the rest, but it could have gone with 5min less

Backyard Garden 8/29

Early girls

tomatoes

She's a bad mama jama

black beauty eggplant

oregano closeup.  I spotted tons of dill seedlings sprouting in the oregano.  I let the dill from the spring go to seed, saved a bunch and let the majority fall back into the ground.

success!

seed to seed

I cast some chard and the dill seeds from my plant next to a sickly table king and they've broken through the ground...I may even have some volunteer oregano as well.

The slugs did a number on my salvia. I need to put more beer out there.

Extension space progress

Backyard Garden Update 8/28

1 tomato 8/28

I picked all the dead leaves off of the bottom half of the tomato plants... some vines are over 10ft in length.  

out of control oregano

training bush summer squash up the cucumber trellis

too much spearmint!  some roots have made their way to the other side of the zucchini

only 2 out of 6 acorn squash (table king) are doing well.  The others are probably suffering from transplant shock.  They may die...would be a shame since theyve taken up so much space.

2 rows of bright lights swiss chard where the mini eggplant were. (sowed last week)

first baby leaves of 2 rows of swiss chard in extension area next to radishes.  Slugs and bugs have been munching on the leaves a bit.

directly in front is the chard I transplanted from the deck and you see radishes and acorn squash in the back.

Acorn squash table queen transplants doing better than table king.  they're starting to grab hold of the fence.  Suffering from powdery mildew, which is also affecting the radishes below them.

slowly but surely

over 50 still on the vine, they wont all be able to turn red before the frost.. already its too cold and the leaves are falling off.

enormous better boys

Herbes de Provence fait maison

rosemary on the left and oregano on the right

 take a dried rosemary branch, strip it with your hands.  I don't have a  mini food processor herb chopper. Instead i put the herbs in a cup and chopped it with scissors. It worked some..

The Oregano breaks apart between your fingers.

Dried basil was laying around and crumbles easily..

The dried thyme is from my grandfather's garden and a large amount is kept in a small mason jar.

1/3 rosemary, 1/3 oregano, 1/3 thyme, 2 leaves of basil...barely count..

herbes de provence fait maison

ready for the cabinet

Southwestern Beef Stew

leftover beef chuck
2-3 cups of water
1/3 of a beef bouillom cube
1 tbsp flour
3 vine tomatoes, hand crushed
1/3 of onion, no chop
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup of mixed frozen veg
2 potatoes rough chopped
s/p, olive oil, home dried thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, 1/3-1/2 sazon packet, 1 tsp cumin, 1tsp cayenne
1/3 cup of black quinoa

Little informal stew to get rid of some extra beef chuck not used for kebabs last week...i let it simmer for 2hrs. Added some quinoa near 1.5hr mark. then I accidentally let it sit out overnight...so to make sure any harmful bacteria like botulism have not festered- re-heat/bring to a boil for 10 minutes and then put into fridge or eat.

Working in commercial kitchens with 50 gallon pots of hot soups and stocks...they are frequently left out to be brought to room temperature (which can take hours) before storing in fridge.  Placing hot stocks directly into the fridge will distort the flavor and sugar.

Backyard Garden 8/26

Romaine

Eggplant

spearmint, 3 bell peppers, tomato, 2 serrano, 5 baby radishes

Le jardin de tonton Roger