Blue cheese quiche

 I need a lunch to take with me to the office tomorrow. I didn't have any leftovers in the fridge - I mean I didn't have anything leftovers I can take with me, those who stay at home tomorrow will need them. I've been fancying a quiche for some time, and at some point during the weekend I noticed a packet of blue cheese in the freezer. I knew I had a some margarine left in the fridge. I usually use only butter or oil, but I baked some dairy free things before summer. It was really time tu use up that small parcel!

Quiche is in the oven now - a bit late, but I went mushrooming with 'Suma and then we had sauna night.

Blue cheese quiche

Crust:

100g fat (butter, margarine)

3 dl flour - I mixed 1 dl of rye flour and 2 dl basic white wheat

1/2-1tsp salt

1 egg

2 tbsp cold water

Work soft fat, salt and flour into sand-like mixture, add egg and water and mix into a smooth dough. Oil the baking dish (24 cm round or similar size square)Pat the crust evenly into baking dish, lift the crust against sides ot the dish. No need to put this on the fridge or blind bake it. Put oven on, 200C.

Filling:

3dl cream or 2dl creamy yoghurt + 1dl milk

2 eggs

salt, pepper

1,5 dl / 100g grated mild cheese

half a packet of blue cheese

Crumble the blue cheese

(I'm allergic to onions as well as leeks, but I've heard caramellized onions or leeks work lovely with blue cheese)

Mix dairy and eggs, add seasoning. Grate cheese. Turn blue cheese into crumbs and spread them evenly over the bottom of the crust (and onions/leeks)
. Sprinkle some of the grated cheese on top of the blue cheese, the pour the filling mixture in. Add rest of the grated cheese.

Bake about 30-40 mins in the middle rack of the oven. Timing depends on the oven, mine bakes very unevenly, so I turn everything 180 degrees in the middle of baking.

I'll have a piece of this with a simple tomato-cucumber salad.

If you need me, you know where to find me

 I'm mushrooming.

I'm trying to teach 'Suma to find shrooms.

She's not very eager, but patiently sniffs around. She doesn't have a clue what she's supposed to do, but it's ok, I love her even if she's not the smartest dog in the world. Not even the smartest dog I've had.

This year's harvest begun poorly. My veggie plot is eaten by snails, completely. Snails ate my pepper plants, beans, all salady things (and everything green which weren't weeds). Then I got decent harvest on black currants and now mushrooms are everywhere!

So far I've only found a dozen porchinis, but chanterelles, black trumpets and hedgehog mushrooms (Hydnum repandum) are are saving the day. Or winter, I suppose, because we will eat mushroom dish once a week next winter. Saves money but most importantly - we really really like mushrooms!

I know, I'm a bad forager. I don't have fancy baskets with separate compartments to different shrooms, I don't wear fancy outdoor clothing (my wellies are fixed with gorilla tape!) and I usually go mushrooming only as far as I can still see my house or yard...

Still here

 My summer has been ... busy?

We had  a double graduation, and all those preparations took a while. I've not yet send thank you - cards, we've chosen pictures, but...

I've been busy at work - done a LOT things I've never have done before. Everything has been extremely interesting, but also so very tiring. My days were long, from 8am to 22pm straight. All day, in my feet, walking around...

D moved to another apartment, so I spent two weeks moving with her - her new apartment is at the sixth floor - and basically no elevator (there is, a tiny closet you can fit max 2 people). At least the staircase is grand!

My veggie garden is neglected, completely overgrown with weeds. At least potatoes are growing. This has been a very wet and moderately warm summer - which means potatoes are suffering, all critters are in abundance and... I just don't even know.

On the good news...?

I've paid my car, it's all mine now!

Sister has chicken, and a cockerel. The cockerel is very loud, from 4am to 9pm. Well, he takes a nap before noon and is quiet about 1- to 2 hours...

Old man and my mother have completed their move to mansion (log cabin), and my sister has the house all by herself (= her family) now.

Grandma's apartment finally sold last week (she died last year), so no more worrying for that.

For real!

Yes, it's been a long winter. Since October we've had snow, freezing tempetatures and some more snow. So this winter has been longer than six months!

I have no want to sow anything, or plant anythin - not even plan anything. 10cm of blindingly bright white snow prevents digging in vegetable plot, and the ground is still frozen solid.

Oh again, tell me about extremely hot spring in Mediterranian... maybe jealousy keeps me warmer!

Nevermind

 I thought we are heading towards spring... then I thought wait a minute, we haven't had our end of March/beginning of April snowstorm. Welll.

So no swimming yet?

I just don't get it

 I really don't understand how blogger/google accounts work. On my laptop I've been kicked out from this blog. Here on my phone I can log in and add posts. Can't kept logged in so that I can comment on others' blogs.

Deers, daily sight.

 As most of Europe is enjoying full spring, here in the backwoods it's still a dream.

But it is still beautiful. We had a small snowstorm today, now sky is clear and temperature is going down. It was -8C and still getting colder. (little black dot is 'Suma)

That is my forest. It's not dense and dark, but airy and light, and it's something I love. Here are my roots growing, and I hope I can pass this to my grandchildren; my grandfather bought this forest after the war, he has lost everything. His house (my father's home) was built with trees from this forest. This gives me food, and this is my safe place. Yes, I do hug my trees.

Snow was only knee high in the woods, but in the open it was up to my waist. Not fun, not at all. Few weeks and there will be no snow? Even if I don't say it out loud, I'm quite tired of this winter thing. I would like to have spring and warming soil beneath my feet. I'd like to plant seeds to grow.

Ys is doing fine, his papers (virtual) will be transported to adults neurological department now, so far he's been under the children's department. His meds are working fine, he is no longer gaining weight (actually, he's lost some which s good).

Sys is having his exams this spring, and D is doing her final courses. If everything goes as planned, they will be graduating this spring! D has been dating a lovely girl, and loves the big city.

I've been baking. First it was a need, few BIG bills to pay so didn't want to spend any money, and second - I had a lot of flours to use before they spoil. 

My fresh yeast has been in the freezer for four years, I wasn's sure if it had survived:

I left it there a bit longer and it was foaming all over the place! Yup, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Later I found some dry yeast, best before 9/2019. Weeellll. It's alive, too.