Vegetarian Foods Archive

Nothing supernatural about this quiche, its really just a Broccoli Quiche on a green pastry base.  The shortcrust pasty is naturally dyed green with the addition of spirulina powder to the dough; and the eggy filling.  Well I steamed some broccoli and blitzed half of it with the milk, then poured it into a bowl and whisked it with the eggs and poured it over the pastry case that had been lined with the remaining broccoli heads and doused with some Welsh cheddar cheese.  At one point during the cooking process, I actually panicked and thought the quiche was not going to set but fortunately it did.  This Broccoli quiche was packed with lots of flavours.  Even the spirulina powder in the shortcrust pastry imparted its sea earth flavours.  Its just a  shame the photograph here doesn't pick up the green in pastry, though I must admit it is a little scorched here and there.  Here's a song by the Jamaican Reggae Band The Dread & Terrible called...

I  harvested some beetroot from my garden a few weeks back and made a few recipes with it such as Beetroot Gratin , Beetroot Horseradish Pasta Salad, Beetroot, Beetroot Chutney,  Soy 'Lamb' Curry , and  Beetroot Chocolate Cake .    And this gorgeous Beetroot Heart Shaped Quiche with Feta and chives. I made this Love Beetoot Heart Quiche totally from scratch.  F rom peeling and cooking the beetroot to cutting them into dainty hearts, to making the  shortcrust pasty which is dyed with beetroot powder, but you would not know it as once it was baked, it lost that magnificent colour.   Even though the beetroot hearts drowned in the eggy creamy mixture, it was a lovely quiche.  I just wish I had taken a photograph of it sliced to show you the mosaic effect on the inside, but I didn't. Oh another reason I made the beetroot heart shaped, it also our  wedding anniversary  today, we don't really do anything celebratory - but...

Despite the name, this is not a Burnt Green Cauliflower Quiche. I have only used the word 'burnt' here as a descriptive to draw attention to the golden colouring on top.   Perhaps I should have called it Autumn Green Cauliflower Quiche instead, as the colours in this quiche are reflective of the autumnal trees around me, but then that would me getting all poetic or pretentious - depending on your view - so I stick with Burnt Green Cauliflower Quiche as some of the cauliflower florets peeking out of the quiche are tinged a little from over baking.  This Quiche was made with a whole head of Green Cauliflower - If you haven't seen what a green cauliflower looks like, t hen please click here to see it in the raw .    The photograph of the Quiche was taken a day after it was made, so the glossy topping had muted overnight in the fridge.  Still as anyone who knows, Quiche is good to eat hot, warm or cold.  I am sharing a slice of Burnt Green Cauliflowe...