Homemade Cooking (Quiche butter crust)

Over these last couple of weeks I have gotten into cooking various foods. I am trying my best to cook foods from scratch aka not using boxes or prepackaged materials. I have tried many recipes of the last couple of days and I want to share one with you now.


This recipe is for making a butter quiche crust.


This was my first time at attempting to make quiche crust, so I wanted to take my time and make sure that I followed directions carefully.

For my recipe I used the following for the crust.

1. 50 grams of butter (cold)
2. 100 grams of flour
3. Pinch of salt
4. One egg

You will also need
1. Pie pan
2. Fork
3. Tin Foil
4. Baking paper
5. Food Processor

First preheat the oven to 190 C

 Put the flour, salt and the butter in the food processor. Make sure the butter and the flour are combined. The cconsistancy should look like peas. After you combine these add the egg and pulse a couple of times.

Next all you need to do is mash the dough together with your hands and make a ball.

Next get one piece of plastic wrap and put the dough on top and then put another piece on top of the dough (it should be like a sandwich, wrap dough wrap.) After this you can roll out the dough into a round shape. Next take off the top layer of plastic wrap and place it in a baking sheet.

It is much easier to carry the dough this way. Then take off the second layer.

Now get a folk and poke holes into the bottom of the pie crust. After doing this get some baking paper and place it on top of the pie crust followed by a piece of tin foil.


Bake this in the over at 190C for about 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes remove the foil and baking paper and bake for another 5 minutes.

Now the pie crust is finished.


You can put anything you want in quiche I put the basics.

But the crust came out great and my friends enjoyed my breakfast quiche.

Divas can cook recipe review

I have decided to start a new type of entry into my blog and I want to call this section my Recipe Review Section.

Over the last couple of days I have been on a cooking frenzy. I have not cooked much over the last year. However, over this last new year holiday I decided to buy a new oven. I ended up buying a Sharp Healsio.

To  my surprise it was a great investment.


The oven works great and it bakes really well.


Thus, this last Sunday while browsing the web I decided to take a challenge and bake a whole chicken for the first time here in Japan.

The recipe that caught my eye was from a food blogger (Divas can cook)

You can view her site here at

www.divascancook.com

I decided to challenge and cook her Lemon Rosemary Garlic Chicken.

And let me tell you this... This recipe is the bomb!!!!


The chicken ended up real moist and the Rosemary, Garlic, and butter taste fabulous.







I also cooked some veggies simmered in butter and herbs to go with the dish. I think this chicken is a great way to end the week or start the new week. The recipe was easy to follow and all of the measurements were on point.

My friend who had come over for dinner that night was surprised by how fast I was able to cook the chicken and how little prep it took. ( In Japan is uncommon to buy a whole chicken and bake it)

If I have a potluck or a party in the near future this will be one of the dishes I would consider taking.


Here are a few pics from my dinner last night.