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03/14/10
Quiche
Filed under: - Vegetables, - A normal day, - Cheese, - Egg
Posted by: Hild @ 6:54 pm

Most evenings when we realise that it is dinner time we just make sandwiches, something we’ve been told is very boring.  This is true, so last week we were inspired to explore the fridge and see what needed eating and whether they added up to a meal.  We ended up with a quiche - a standard way of eating left-overs!

 

Pastry:

Preheat oven to 180 Celsius. Mix all ingredients and knead the dough enough for it to be rolled out (not any longer). Roll the pastry thin enough to line the quiche dish (ours was 19cm in diametre). Bake it in the oven for 20 minutes

 

Filling (approximate as it was whatever we had left in the fridge!):

Cook the spinach in the butter. Add the remaining ingredients and cook for a while longer.  Add the filling to the baked pastry.  Bake quiche for another 10 minutes.

 

Topping:

Peel and slice the apple into thin slithers. Cover the quiche in apples and grated cheese. Bake quiche for another 10 minutes or until the cheese is light brown.

Photos of the pastry and the finished quiche:

 

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Crepes
Filed under: - Beef, - Pork, - Seafood, - Dessert, - Vegetables, - A normal day, - Bread, - Cheese, - Egg
Posted by: Hild @ 6:53 pm

After a mini-holiday skiing in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, we were inspired to buy a crepe maker.  We were inspired after having two meals at Crêperie Catherine - dinner one day and returning the next day for dessert.  We had front-row seats to see how the crepes were made in their little kitchen. To a Norwegian, a crepe maker is simply a small “takke” on which we make lefse (see recipe for hardangerlefse).  We also predict many other uses for a crepe maker including making quesadillas or simply warming up tortillas filled with all sorts of goodness.  That would be more interesting than sandwiches, for sure!

 

Crepe ingredients - Alternative 1 (UK/Delia crepes):

Crepe ingredients - Alternative 2 (crepe recipe - came witht he crepe maker):

Crepe ingredients - Alternative 3 (Norwegian pannekaker):

  • ca. 3.5 dl flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 dl low-fat milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • (1-2 teaspoons sugar)
  • (1 tablespoon margarine or butter)

Mix the eggs, milk and water gradually to the flour and salt.

  Avoid getting a lumpy batter.  If you are unlucky (like we frequently are), simply strain the batter before cooking the crepes.  Heat up the crepe maker (our brand needs mark 4-5). Put sufficient amount of batter to the middle of the crepe maker and use a crepe-scraper to spread the batter in a smooth and circular motion.  We are still applying the trial-and-error method to determine how much batter and how to spread it evenly…. simply eat the errors.  Cook the crepe 10-15 seconds on each side.  Flip the crepe back to the first side and add filling as you like.

 

Some of the crepe fillings that we’ve tried:

We prefer to put the filling in the middle of the crepe and fold in the sides twice to make an envelope.  This crepe-envelope can be flipped over and cooked/heated on both sides.  For easy taste testing with family and friends we have loaded the filling down the middle of the crepe and folded over once to slice it up in several pieces. 

I’m sure we’ll think of more ways of doing this as just about everything we eat now ‘goes’ past the crepe maker!!!

 

Some photos: (1) Rob adding batter to the crepe maker.  (2) Ham and cheese filling. (3) Apple, brie and maple syrup

 

 

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