If it's apples again I'm leafing - 10 / 10 thread

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oH, IN th time it took me to write that, everyone else came in with far better suggestions and a discussion on quiche

Yes, shop bought is the worst. Deep filled wobbly blancmangey pap with a soggy base and a sniff of cheese.

Good quiche is one of my favourite foods. I like goats cheese and sundried tomato, or butternut squash and garlic, or salmon and dill, any flavour really as long as it's done right.

IT IS ONE MINUTE TO SIX AND ALL IHAVE DONE IS OPENED A TIN OF BEANS AND WASHED UP

You are all very very right. Willyou come and organise me?

TooT, I think I'd cater for the littlies - make whatever they will eat and if the big ones don't want it they can have bread, or toast or make something else. I think DD1 is old enough to make stuff and maybe even DS1.

Quiche is always the veg option at here. You know, you won't eat our meat so you must eat a great big wobbly pile and room-temperate eggs with orange cheese on soggy pastry. Yes. I once politely declined but then the lady picked up a piece with her fingers and shoved it on my plate anyway and sat and watched while I gipped ate it

I am afraid, Toot, you will just have to get on and do it yourself. Beans in pan, tip on toast. Throw a tomato at them and send to bed. Wash up. Pour wine. Watch tv.

Yuk at orange cheese, unless it's the rind of a smoked applewood.

The deli and cafe in the village does home made brie and herb tart, and garlic and potato pie, and goats cheese and red onion tart, and chocolate and nut pie - and they're all amazing. Guad when we're rich we should go there for lunch you'd like it. But the service is v. basil fawlty as they hate customers, but if you can concentrate on the food is v. nice.

Though I suppose that is brown. Burnt orange maybe.

Well, we will go there and ignore them and admire our own charming company and eat everything. It sounds delicious.

i'm eating filthy shop bought quiche
i never learn

Is it very filthy? If those are the only option then I find overcooking them helps and then you can use them as a sort of scoop for the rest of your nice stuff.

In a way the service is part of the charm. The old lady who runs it and is amazing cook, looks at you as if to say 'what the FUCK are you doing just walking in and sitting down in my cafe? FUCK OFF!' We sometimes go and chuckle as she slams things down and rolls her eyes.

it is fairly filthy, yes, but i am hungry and there are lots of other things on my plate as well thank god

Boco, I want to go there!

Will the be quiche at the meetup?

have eaten it
it was kind of congealed bits of wobbly custard separating from the pastry which was soggy and salty, with the world's soggiest tomatoes, like little lumps of hot red water
it was reduced to a pound in M+S
i love a bargain

I am sorry for being useless. Thank you for being kind. Bad day I think. Rollon tomorrow.

I know we're not meant to do this Toot, but (((hugs)))

roasted tomato and lentil soup (2, maybe 3)

Thanks Sb.

Twosmall chunks of tooth have just fallen out.Now I have sharpbits.

And that is precisely why we don't do hugs, they are v. dangerous and can cause loss of teeth, or parts of teeth.

Ouch Toot, will you go to dentist?

Worth it for the hugs.

No,I shalljust quietly fall tobits.

If I go they might put me on a hug-free diet.

Go and get it filed down Toot, otherwise you'll spend forever running your tongue along the sharp bits.

To avert dinner time disaster, meal plan and only do meals that everyone likes (so you only cook once). If they turn their nose up at it they can only have toast (with beans if you're feeling generous) as an alternative.

This should stop:

the dinnertime oh-shit-what-am-I-going-to-cook feeling.

you cooking multiple meals.

picky kids who are playing you.

When quiche is good it is DIVINE, when it is bad it is just plain nasty.

Meals that everyone likes? Oh dear.

There must be meals where most people like most of it?

Can you do meals like lots of things in bowls that everyone can help themselves to - olives, crackers, peppers, carrots, hummous etc?

or Pasta and, if you were feeling generous you could offer a choice of sauce or plain with butter & cheese (or vegan equivalents)

Or Jacket spuds with a choice of beans, cheese or butter or all 3.

Or bread or toast on the table with pots of jam, honey and marmite and a bowl of fruit.

So you only have to prepare 1 main thing and everyone can chose how they eat it.