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Brown rice pilaf with porcini

We had half a packet of brown rice left over from the paella attempt. I looked around for ideas on what to use it for and decided on this. It’s inspired by a recipe found on epicurious; I made several changes to it to suit my taste. The pilaf is really fragrant, thanks to the addition of porcini soaking liquid, butter and some cream. Lemon zest gave it that bit of zing needed to complete the dish.

(Serves 2 as a main) Ingredients:

3/4 ounces dried porcini 1/2 cup hot water

1 cup brown rice 1 cup chicken stock 1 red onion (chopped) 3/4 cup chopped parsley 2 [...]

Crustless Spinach Quiche

I had bought a packet of frozen spinach last week, meaning to cook creamed spinach some time this week. When this did not materialise, I decided to do something else with the spinach.

I was too lazy to roll out a crust, and so I decided that this quiche was going to be crustless. To save the trouble of having to cut it up, I decided to bake the quiche mixture in a cupcake tin. I used some aged pecorino cheese in place of gruyere cheese, the typical choice for quiches.

The quiche turned out nicely, though I think it was a tad bit salty, as I forgot that [...]

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