Greetings ,
I did it! I finally cooked something in the new flat 😀.
It took a while to get myself organised. First, unpacking all the boxes to find my kitchen things. Then, making sure I had the gear I needed (oops, no quiche dish - I had to buy one).
Finally, I purchased ingredients (1). That was tricky as the recipe (2) is in my head and it's been a l-o-n-g time since I used it!
But last Tuesday (after cleaning my windows, of course!) I set to work.
Being an old-fashioned cook, I make my pastry (3) from scratch (4). It's easy and quick and I can make the quantity I need.
It was a great feeling to get my hands dirty. NOTE - my hands were clean when I started, but I make pastry by using my hands to mix the ingredients together, so they get 'dirty' (maybe 'messy', or 'covered in flour (5) and butter' sounds better 🤔).
Looking back, it wasn't the best lot I've ever made. Clearly I'm out of practice.
With the pastry finished and in the dish, I prepared the other ingredients and added them.
The only thing left was the cheese to go on top. I turned the oven on before I started grating (6) it.
When it was all done, I checked the oven.
Oh no! It was still cold.
Why? I had turned the temperature button to 180 °C. It should be hot!
Wondering what I was going to do with an uncooked quiche, I took a close look at all the buttons for the oven. Oh, the one with the 'F' wasn't for 'Fahrenheit' - it had strange pictures on it...
Because the kitchen is quite new, the instruction manuals were there when I moved in. So, I found the one for the stove.
Maybe some of you have guessed, but from the manual I learned that the 'F' was for 'Function'. I needed to choose 'oven' there and then set the temperature.
With that information, I heated up the oven and cooked the quiche. And it was delicious 😋.
How about your cooking experiences ? Have you had moments when something wouldn't work properly? Did it ruin the food you were preparing, or was everything OK in the end? I'd love to hear your stories 😀.
Catch ya later,
Andrea
(1) ingredients - the different 'foods' we put into a dish when we cook. For example, for a cake, you use ingredients like eggs, sugar and flour.
(2) recipe - the document with the list of ingredients and instructions for how to cook something (you say it in three parts 're-ci-pe')
(3) pastry - the 'case' made with mainly flour and butter where you put the other ingredients of a quiche (or pie) before you cook it
(4) from scratch - from the very start
(5) flour - the 'powder' from crushed wheat (or other grains). The main ingredient of bread.
(6) to grate - to rub on a 'grater' so that you get lots of small pieces
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