Perfect Parklands Pie

That meal I described in yesterdays blog created a delicious image in my head as I wrote about it that stuck for the rest of the day so I went home and attempted it. Basically it was a vegetable & bacon quiche that I named "Parklands Pie".

Personally I thought it turned out quite well, especially since it took some effort and imagination to prepare as I was not working from a recipe, only the standard idea of making a quiche from memory. Basically it was constructed as follows:

• Lay the base of a pie dish with puff pastry, the type that you buy ready flattened, rolled and frozen in a packet from the supermarket. Bake the pastry base until cooked and puffy. (How the fuck should I know how to make pastry???)
• Peel and cube half a large butternut and boil for 20 minutes until soft. Add the 6 large courgettes (baby marrows) the last 3 minutes of boiling. Remove and drain of all excess water.
• Lay the vegetables over the pastry and crumble a decent hand-full of feta cheese over the veg.
• Mix up a tub of cream with 3 eggs, salt & pepper. Pour the mixture over the veg.
• Sprinkle with a generous helping of roasted seeds (pumpkin, etc)
• Slice up a pack of bacon and roughly lay over the vegetables.
• Bake in the oven at 220 degrees celcius for around 45 minutes

That's how I did mine anyway, and it tasted really good & wholesome, though my wife didn't like it! Which I don't quite understand, she said it tasted burned, which it certainly wasn't, and she didn't like that the base wasn't crispy, despite it being firm. So she made herself some supper on a stale bread-roll from Saturday night. Quite insulting, to be honest, but it's fine. Nobody's forced to eat my cooking, it's just a royal waste of money when we're on a very tight budget!

Anyway, Tammy had some and she seemed to quite enjoy it! And, I got a decent dosage of much needed fresh vegetables in my system again. Damage control from the weekend!

In fact I'm busy stuffing my gob with leftovers as I write this and I'm enjoying it more than yesterday! My poor body is singing my praises for feeding it veggies and not some slop with mayo again!

I haven't blogged about food much lately, hopefully this makes up somewhat. Sorry but I've had other shit on my mind lately, besides brandy, thus the distractions. Soon again I'll sit down and spew forth another load of crap from my over imaginative mind (sometimes) that will take 2 or 3 hours to compose in half decent grammar and spelling (you surely didn't think I'm a natural modern day Baard, did you? No it usually takes me a while to get my story right with careful proof reading and the correcting of plenty of mistakes along the way! Thank Bill for Windows spell-checker!!!)

In fact, after some of the compliments I've had lately about my blogs I've been thinking (yes that happens occasionally, usually with much clanking and clattering between my ears) that I might appear to get clever and start using a thesaurus, and heaven forbid even a dictionary (besides my wife) and let rip with some really big fancy words now and then! I might even pluck up the courage to do a creative writing course, if they'll have me! (They being the university I work for, they run the course and others like it for staff).

Though it's probably a good idea to start working on the Unisa course I signed up for, which I should be well into already, of which the first assignment is probably just about due! The main delay being a lack of funds to buy the text book, which I will do on Friday when I get paid before the banks rob me of my meager wages again!

Anyway peeps, I should probably get back to my job. Thanks for reading! And do try my veggie quiche - despite my dear wife's over-fussiness it really was worth the effort, I thought it was good! Even my colleague got a whiff of it earlier and said how nice it smelled!

Later...