Spinach Quiche

Quiche is not a very difficult thing to make. What you need are eggs and vegetables. You will also need pastry. I like to use puff pastry.

I use this recipe:
- 2 eggs
- 9 egg yolks
- Two cups of heavy cream (about 500 ml)
- Salt and pepper
- 500 g spinach or broccoli to fill the bottom of the pan
- Gruyère cheese
- Parsly

First, you bake the pastry till it's crispy. Second you mix the eggs, egg yolk and the cream. Add some spices to it. You can heat it up so it gets baked faster. The spinach should be cooked in hot water for half a minute and then you chop it in little pieces. Add the spinach to the pastry bottom and fill it in with the egg/cream custard.

Then bake it for about an hour on 170 °C. Ten minutes before end you can add some gruyère cheese. Or you can also add the cheese to the custard. It's how you like it. Not too difficult really.

This is the end result:

The taste and texture was pretty good. Not too much liquid, not too dry. Just perfect.

Vegetarian Lasagna with Spinach, Tomatoes and Mushrooms

As you know I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat meat, fish, chicken. For those vegetarians out there I will give a delicious recipe for lasagna.

You will need a lot of ingredients:
- lasagna sheets
- butter
- basil
- red wine
- tomatoes
- flour
- white wine
- nutmeg
- spinach
- mushrooms
- concentrated tomato paste
- olive oil
- lemon juice
- thyme
- oregano
- rasped cheese
- parmezan
- mascarpone

First we make the Bechamel sauce, which is basically a mixture of flour, cream, butter, water and nutmeg (optional: white wine). It's pretty standard. Don't add too much flour, or you will have a lot of sauce. Make the sauce thick enough.

And this is how I made the lasagna. Try it yourself!

After having baked it for almost an hour on medium heat, I added the cheese on top of it and let it bake for another few minutes on high heat. This is the result...

Without Cheese on Top:

With Cheese on Top:

Conclusion:

Very good taste, the only comment I have on myself is that the spinach was a little bit darkened because I cooked it for too long. Almost an hour cooking. Next time don't overcook the lasagna! Half an hour is enough.