Dining Room Update

Hello, Everyone :)

As you all know, we have moved into a new house, and even though we have most of the furniture, we still need quite a few things. So for the past few weeks I've been shopping for furniture and accessories and all the things that make a home a home. It has been so stressful. I don't want to end up with things that I won't like in a month, so I've been trying to think everything through 7 times :D 

The most stressful of all the furniture shopping has been trying to find a dining table. We decided to go for the dark and light theme. But there has always been something about the sets I don't like. But finally I found the one I was completely happy with and D also liked. It arrived on Tuesday and we now have a functional dining room :) I'm not going to lie, there is quite a lot of things I still need for the room. But all in good time. This is the progress I've done so far...hope you like it :)

Before

After

The set consists of a walnut color extendable table with 6 cream chairs. I've only put together 4...I got tired :D And since I have replaced the potted purple flowers with a blue vase full of yellow tulips :) I love having my morning coffee there now while Oscar sits in his chair, we still need a high chair for him. 

Another thing we need is a long shelf for all the little trinkets D has :S :D I just think it will break up the room a bit and make the long 8 compartment shelf look more cleaner. And then there will be 3 big picture frames with hopefully some pictures in them :D and some see through cream curtains. :) And that should be it...after these things have been done the dining room should be ready for some dinner parties :)

Hope you enjoyed the post everyone :)

Stay tuned 

xoxo

Le Quiche Recipe

Hello, Everyone :)
I made my famous quiche yesterday. I came up with the recipe when I was a vegetarian for a brief moment. I tend to go through phases in my life, where I decide that eating meat is cruel...so I stop. Usually something really shitty gets me back to meat eating. It's never a good piece of steak or a nice tender chicken breast. It's usually a shitty boiled cheese sausage :D or some dried up piece of pork :D Anyway, back to the quiche. It has one of my favourite food combinations in it, which is sun-dried tomatoes and goats cheese. I also use this amazing combo for my risotto :) and I do think that not every meal needs meat...Dan disagrees :D But he does actually enjoy this pie/quiche dish.
Everything that was going to go wrong with it went wrong though yesterday :D My head was clearly not screwed on properly, so I made silly silly mistakes. The taste was still the same great taste that I always get though, which showes that it's never about the appearance when it comes to food.

This is how I had a slice today for lunch. With a nice spinach and lettuce salad along side with tomato and cucumber and avocado. Because it is quite a rich pie dish, despite the fact that it's vegetarian, I always have it with salad.

So yesterday, something happened, that has never happened to me before. I left the dough in the oven for too long, after bar baking it, that it set into an upwards bolw :D Dan had a great idea of me turning it over and instead of slowly doing it I flipped it with a knife, so it cracked into a hundred pieces. :D I had to put it back like a puzzle :D

Panic averted, I decided I'll make do with what I've got :D So I pan fried the leeks, tomatoes, and mushrooms. What I would usually do is add the goats cheese at this point, and let it melt into the mix. But because the dough was cracked I decided that the more egg that goes to the bottom and into the cracks the better :D

So I added the goats cheese right at the end. I used 3 eggs and a table spoon full of sour cream for the filling mix. And about 100 grams on goats cheese crumbled on top.

And then I obviously forgot that I usually grate some cheddar into the egg mix as well, so I just sprinkled it on top :D

AND in the end, the cracked base moulded itself together with the egg and all the juice goodness from the vegetables and tomatoes, and it turned out pretty much just the same as always :)

If you too enjoy a good vegetarian hearty meal, then why don't you try this one out :)

Recipe

I sheet of short crust pastry (you can always make your own, but I have a baby and no kitchen appliances :D)

100 grams of goats cheese

350g of sundried tomatoes

3 small leeks

about 100 grams of sliced cup mushrooms

Pre-heat the oven to 200'C and pre bake the dough. Let it rest and if it has risen, taking it out of the oven and pushing it back down will help :D

Fry all the ingredient in a pan until the leeks and mushrooms are cooked. And add the goats cheese (or don't, you  can always sprinkle it on top like I did yesterday)

Divide the mix evenly on the dough.

Mix 3 eggs and a bit of milk or sour cream (I use sour cream as I like it more thick) and cheddar (any cheese will probably do, and you don't have to add any) and poor the whole thing on top of the veggie mix :)

Put the whole thing back in the oven for about 15-20 minutes or until ready (once the egg is cooked) and VOILA.

Hope you enjoyed the post. And let me know once you've tried the recipe. Did you like it or hate it? :)

Stay tuned

xoxo

Little Walks

Good Afternoon, everyone :)
The weather here has been surprisingly beautiful these days, which prompted me and my friend to get off our asses and go for a nice walk. Moving out of the city centre was the best decision we made. I love how there are 3 massive parks around my house, and even if I go to the local high street, it's just so different. People are nice and not rude. No one is trying to walk through you, and when I look up I can actually see the sky rather than a high building :D Even Oscar likes to look around now. Turn his head towards the bird noises and just enjoy the walk :)

We decided to take a trip to the local fitness centre to find out about the swimming pools, so going swimming will be in the future plans :) and then we went for a coffee just across the road. It looked quite a quirky and fun place, and it had a really good selection of healthy sandwiches and salads. The one funny part of the place was that it was just full of mothers with their babies :D There were 6 tables and by the time we left about 5 babies :D It looked like a nursery :D I even asked the owner why there were so many babies, but he just said ''I guess they like it here'' :D Anyway, it was slightly weird :D Good coffee though.

Sorry about the picture overflow :D
Hope you enjoyed the post :) And if you live in Harborne area in Birmingham, then go check out Boo Boo Coffee :) Especially when you have kids, because, you know, they like it there :D

I will be sharing my famous goats cheese and sundried tomato quiche recipe tomorrow.

So stay tuned ;)

xoxo