Q is for Quiche

E is for Etch-A-Sketch.
Yes. This post is dedicated to Chah.

This quiche was made for her for our lunch date in school which never happened. She was suppose to bring her E and I my Q but the sleep monster captured her whole and ate her alive. Really. My friends were all blatantly happy about her fate though because they got to eat extra slices while others that did not have a slice were happy they got one.

We usually eat quiche on Fridays because my Mom is too lazy to whip up a full ten-course meal for dinner. We get sushi and fried rice more often though because there is always the danger of my Dad coming home for dinner (which he usually does not on Fridays) and he does not think anything besides rice qualifies as proper food. My Mom usually makes the quiche although increasingly, I have been tasked the task of making it because well, like I said, she gets lazy on Fridays and besides I definitely can bake better than I cook or roll sushi.

Quiche is really quite easy to make that if I ever become a Mom and I got lazy on Fridays, this is what you get kiddos! I mean you just
1.Whip up some shortcrust pastry
2. Stir together cream, eggs,a dash of pepper and salt and just a bit of milk
3. Stir-fry some spinach and ham with onions
4. Press your pastry dough onto a fluted pie pan.
5. Poke the bottom with a fork.
6. Add 3 and pour 2 into the pan.
7. Sprinkle some black pepper over the top and bake. and Voila! Dinner/Lunch/Tea-time snack/Breakfast/Picnic food/BfGf bait/you get the idea.

Yes, I do.

Some business

No. I am not opening a business of any sort. (Although, I do take commissioned orders.)
Yes. I designed it (all by myself).
No. It is not for fun. (It was fun designing it though)
Yes. It is for tomorrow's fashion show. (Say what?)
No. I am not the caterer for the show. (Double boo!)
Yes. I am modelling. (I know right?)
No. I am not tall. (Sigh.)
Yes. It is for a good cause. (Please come!)
No. It is not invitation only. (Please come!)
Yes. I would love to meet you! (Please come!)

P.S
No. You better not steal my pictures. (Nothing will happen but someday... you will know.)
Yes. You can credit me if you use them. (Thank you for sharing the love!)

Where are you?

I miss you, I really miss you, so would you please come back?
I know you had to leave but I need you back.
Demons are haunting me and they tug and drag.
They tug and drag me into the deep dark depths.
I need you to hurry.
I need you to come back.
Come back my sunshine.
Come back.
There is nothing exactly wrong but everything is not right.
So please, bring along laughter and all things good so that we can dance all night.

Birthday Cake

This is my very first attempt at making a whole cake. No, really it is. The other attempts were either disastrous resulting to cake gone south or I had much help from the mom. So, it comes as no surprise if I tell you the cake was not pretttyyyy. My cake decorating and frosting skills are awesome FAIL. It was quite tasty nevertheless.

I used this recipe for the cake and sandwiched the cake layers with a layer of frosting+strawberry slices+strawberry puree. The cake layers turned out a tad bit hard and I guess I have myself to blame for it. The recipe stated that I had to bake the layers in two separate tins but I obviously do not have two tins of the same measurement. Oh and I did not have the exact measure either! Although my mom has a very impressive range of baking equipment, we alas, still have missing ones. The big mistake I made was that I substituted the required tin with the smaller one I had which was 7-inch and let us just say that the cake was threatening to explode it's dress. Haha. I will if I am making this again use the larger one which is the 9 inch and cross my fingers and pray that the layers would not turn out too thin. OR, well, I suppose of course I could go out and buy an 8-inch tin. My oven is not big enough to contain two tins so I would have to bake it one shot.

I would recommend this recipe if you are looking for a strawberry cake base because it really packs alot of strawberry punch in those tight crumbs and although my cake layers did not turn out pink, I am sure yours probably would. Oh! Please check out the rest of the posts on the blog! On second thought, perhaps it is unnecessary to ask you to do so because they look absolutely delicious and you know what is good.

Here you go, Happy Birthday!

Edit: I used the brown sugar cream cheese frosting which was soooo yum.

Strawberry Sunshine

If there is one thing that is always in my fridge, it would be strawberries. My mom for some reason or another seems to like buying strawberries alot. Not that I am complaining but I was about to when she went crazy and bought 9 250g packet of strawberries. I mean it is one thing to like something alot and it is another to finish perishable likings. I obviously was not eating them fast enough and no one in my family really eats them except my mom and my sister (occasionally) so I grabbed a few packets and made some strawberry mousse using this recipe.

I have never really made a mousse before to be honest and using heavy cream too! It turned turned out prettily so I am glad. This is definitely not the best strawberry mousse and honestly not my cup of mousse either but the bff and my mom seem to like it much. It was abit tooo milky-tasting for me and if left out too long in humid weather, it would turn mushyy-ugh. There was a problem with the recipe because it omitted the step where I have to add in the required lemon zest and lemon juice so I guess it turned out just a tad bit too sweet. I may tweak this recipe and figure out when to add in the lemon zing and maybe it would turn out just lovely.

In the meantime, catch some sunshine in a cup.

Absolute Laughter

Credits to Trevor Wong.