Tim Woolfson – timwoolfson.com

I made my first ever quiche today. It turned out pretty tasty. The last significant recipe I learnt was cottage pie. Unfortunately, whilst my cottage pie always comes out alright, the best one I ever did (according to Yanil) was the first one I did. To prevent that happening with quiche I thought, while I could remember more or less how it went, I’d write it down.

Ingredients – Serves 4-5

• 3 Onions
• Shop-bought pastry for quiche
• 3 carrots
• butter
• grated cheddar cheese
• 2 big tomatoes
• 4 eggs
• ground black pepper
• ground nutmeg
• fresh thyme
• fresh rosemary
• Krauterlinge dried herbs
• Broccoli to accompany.

Method

1. Oven to 190
2. 3 onions peeled, cut in half, halves cut down and accross any too big bits picked out and recut.
3. Oven at temperature – stick dish in with shop bought pastry for quiche in baking paper in appropriate sized dish for size.
4. 10ish minutes… in the oven. Supposed to make lots of mini fork holes, I only read this some minutes in but it didn’t make much odds.
5. 3 carrots – rinsed, peel left on, sliced thin.
6. Chunk of butter in frying pan over a medium/high heat.
7. Once butter has melted, onions in, stir.
8. Few mins after, carrots in, lid on.
9. Pastry check / out. Oven down to 180.
10. Grated cheddar cheese – handful.
11. Couple of tomatoes chopped up. To pan a good few minutes after carrots & onions.
12. A Few minutes later, pan from heat, cheese in, stir, 4 eggs in, stir..
13. Good grind of pepper and shake of salt..
14. Pinch of ground nutmeg..
15. Fresh Thyme picked, washed, remove leaves using fingers rubbing..
16. Fresh Rosemary, picked, washed, removes leaves using fingers rubbing. Sliced thin..
17. In pan with other herbs – Krauterlinge both varieties that Yanil gets..
18. Decent stir.
19. That’s it – whack it in the oven for 40 odd minutes checking it occasionally. Take it out when it’s done before it gets dry.
20. Bung some brocolli in a microwave dish with a few mls of water – 6 minutes @ 800W with lid not tight, timed to coincide with seving the quiche. Dress the brocoli with some salt and olive oil or whatever.