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.

In fact I’m currently listening to the “Knee Deep Mix” of “Everybody loves the sunshine” which I bought just this afternoon at Discos Juando which is right near the Mercat Santa Catarina in Barcelona for 2€. Bargain!

Yanil and I had lunch at Bar del Pla with Xavi and Michelle. A great little restaurant. Not quite enough staff for a Saturday afternoon but hey – we weren´t in a hurry… The croquetas de ceps & foie (Croquets with Seasonal mushrooms and Foie Gras) which weren’t advertised but which the waiter recommended were absolutely out of this world. I also quite digged the local beer – called Almogaver (Warrior) Beer – 5 years in Barcelona and this is the first time I’ve tried this Barcelona based beer! Worth the wait!