To those that still check out my blog

Hey what’s up everyone, been a while since I did a post about anything and decided that I should make a post. In my current situation I haven't had the chance to be going on any food adventures, so I have decided that I shall be blogging about the different types of food I have eaten around the city and the food I've been experimenting on at home or at work. With that being said be on the lookout for many new posts as I continue my culinary adventure.


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For Christmas I was invited by my housemate's family to have dinner at their place, I was also asked to bring along some food. At first i wasn't too sure what I was going to cook, this being the first Christmas dinner I ever had to make any food for. I went through some books, looked at websites and talked to my chef at work about it. Somehow through all the ideas I was looking up and being suggested of, I decided to go with a mini quiche. I originally found the recipe on All Recipes and then taken it and modified it to what I wanted. Essentially the recipe was the same except I used more eggs, less baking mix and green onions instead of parsley. The recipe turned out to be pretty good, but the end result turned out to be a bit dry and needed some ketchup to accompany it. I think where it went wrong was that there wasn’t enough moisture, so I decided that the next time I make these mini quiches I’m going to cut down on the baking mix which hopefully will fix the slight dryness. Cooking these mini quiches was pretty straight forward, sautee the bacon along with the onions + green onions, cool down and then mix in with the eggs + baking mixture.

When we went over to Andrew’s parents house (Andrew is my housemate) there was already a ton of food already made, his mom really went to town in making a wonderful meal. I was a bit scared that the mini quiches wouldn’t be much of a hit and that no one would even touch them since I don’t think they looked a bit like pucks. Near the end of the meal his relatives came up to me telling me they were delicious and just hearing them tell me they enjoyed it made my night. (Well that and my housemate eating a couple of them and telling me to make it again) On a side note, there was a crazy amount of food at the Souter’s and man oh man did I leave with a nice full stomach. His mom even made me my favorite thing to eat at the Souter’s which was deep fried cauliflower Mmmmmmmmmm I can taste it now just talking about it.

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I’d also like to make a quick shout out to two of my friends who also have food blogs, Justin and Jesse. Justin’s blog started roughly the same time as me, I met him while I was doing the work study program at Le Cordon Bleu and he was starting up his program Le Grand Diplome Professional. Which is like the Grand Diplome Certificate, but you also have time to go on a stage and they also include a few other classes that the Grand Diplome does not include. Justin’s a great guy to talk to and usually when we do talk it is at some crazy hour in the morning mainly having discussions about food. Check out his blog @ Le cahier de Justin

My other friend that I’d like to make a shout out to is Jesse; I met him while I worked at The Grand Pizzeria and bar. I mainly worked in the kitchen while he was the head pizza maker out at the pizza oven; he’s also the one that trained me how to open dough and to work the oven. The second him and I started talking about food we became great friends, at first it was just what kind of crazy pizzas we could create but after a while we started talking about any food. He’s pretty much my travel buddy when it comes down to my adventures, him and his brother Josh accompanied me on that Pizza voyage we went on. I’m sure there will be many more adventures to come; I especially can’t wait for the East coast barbeque road trip we’re going to take through America. Check out his blog @ http://jessedevouge.blogspot.com/. His blog is fairly new but be sure to keep an eye out for what his latest food obsession is.



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Below is the recipe for the mini quiches

Ingredients
• 6 slices bacon, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 6 eggs
• 70 g buttermilk baking mix (or just normal baking mix, an example would be bisquick)
• 2-3 bulbs of green onion
• 110 g shredded Gruyere or Swiss Cheese

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 mini muffin pans.(or use a regular sized muffin pan, which fits about 12).
2. In a skillet over medium heat, fry bacon, onion and green onion together for about 5 minutes, or until bacon is crisp. Drain and set aside.
3. In a bowl, beat the eggs. Stir in the baking mix, shredded cheese, bacon and onion/green onion (make sure to cool down the bacon mix before mixing in with the eggs else you will cook the eggs with the heat from the bacon). Spoon into greased muffin cups. (make sure to give it a good spray, I had some slight problems trying to remove them from the pan)
4. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the tops are lightly browned. Allow mini quiches to cool in the pan before carefully removing with a small knife or spatula.


Recipe from All Recipes with modifications from me



The Mini Quiches


Andrew's Chocolate cheesecake


First plate of food for Christmas Dinner