Jack Monroe #497 Jack Monroe's Con-a-nation Quiche

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Dearest, those kitchen photos have just reminded me of something that came up on my twitter last week. Could this, not Leggy's, be the original idea for her dream/nightmare kitchen..

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Trimmed, beaned and into the oven.

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At this point, I made the executive decision to half the filling ingredients, as I don't want to waste more than I have to. I had to mix my own dried herbs, but they're interchangeable anyway.

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Checking on how the spinach is 'cooling'. After over an hour at room temperature, there's very little visible ice now! View attachment 2138013

Though I'm wondering if half this watery lovelyness should go in.

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I did decide to remove the baking beans after cooking, despite not being told to, as I don't see how else I could proceed. Unfortunately with no instructions it all went a bit wrong and the pastry slid out the case too. At least I know the bottom is undercooked and cracked.

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I did get them out and was ready to fill!

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Here's what 25g of cheese looks like on top of that. View attachment 2138031

And half the veg, evenly scattered.

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I could not fit all the eggy goo in, not even close. I tried, I really did. Remember, this is half the amount you're meant to use already.

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It's in the oven and I'm terrified.
Thank you for all that you do. We'll arrange a virtual mass applaud (and maybe a street party gun salute) in your honour.
 
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Okay, so I'm making this quiche abomination.

First thoughts, I may have picked too large a bowl. There was no mention of cubing my soft spread, so I didn't. View attachment 2137804

It did however crumb quickly, due to this softness of soft spread. However, after two teaspoons of water it would not form a dough using the back of a spoon. View attachment 2137808

I briefly kneeded and got a very crumbly tiny bit of dough. To the fridge! View attachment 2137822

One problem I didn't forsee was actually getting 120g of frozen spinach. It comes in balls, which are usually about 40g, but no combination in my bag was 120g spot on. I'm sure this extra 1g of spinach will be the reason this quiche fails.

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They went with the peas into the microwave for a minute. It's a 900w, and as suspected, 1 minute was not even close to long enough to thaw these honking great cubes. Anyway, I mixed as best they could and are now to one side to 'cool'.

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To be continued!
You are doing the lord's work
 
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Trimmed, beaned and into the oven.

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At this point, I made the executive decision to half the filling ingredients, as I don't want to waste more than I have to. I had to mix my own dried herbs, but they're interchangeable anyway.

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Checking on how the spinach is 'cooling'. After over an hour at room temperature, there's very little visible ice now! View attachment 2138013

Though I'm wondering if half this watery lovelyness should go in.

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I did decide to remove the baking beans after cooking, despite not being told to, as I don't see how else I could proceed. Unfortunately with no instructions it all went a bit wrong and the pastry slid out the case too. At least I know the bottom is undercooked and cracked.

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I did get them out and was ready to fill!

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Here's what 25g of cheese looks like on top of that. View attachment 2138031

And half the veg, evenly scattered.

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I could not fit all the eggy goo in, not even close. I tried, I really did. Remember, this is half the amount you're meant to use already.

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It's in the oven and I'm terrified.
I'm feeling sick
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Sorry, another quiche mither, I've never ever put cream cheese in mine? Surely it will make it a bit stodgy and unpleasant?
 
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I did check it after 20 minutes, in case the tiny size reduced the cooking time. It was still incredibly anemic with a lovely glisten of cheese large.
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After 30 minutes it did appear browned and set (though there's so much veg it's hard to tell) so now I'm just waiting for it to cool with all my hungry friends.


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Oh bloody hell, look out when she catches up, Boys in Scrubs. The “wee pocket rocket” has a new strapline to lure you in on Tinder.
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“Gym rat” 😂

The only gruelling activity guest is getting up to is the mental gymnastics involved in somehow being a staunch anti poverty / anti monarchist hero who also bakes a kissing rit quiche for a bazilionnaire king who wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.
 
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Trimmed, beaned and into the oven.

View attachment 2138006

At this point, I made the executive decision to half the filling ingredients, as I don't want to waste more than I have to. I had to mix my own dried herbs, but they're interchangeable anyway.

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Checking on how the spinach is 'cooling'. After over an hour at room temperature, there's very little visible ice now! View attachment 2138013

Though I'm wondering if half this watery lovelyness should go in.

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I did decide to remove the baking beans after cooking, despite not being told to, as I don't see how else I could proceed. Unfortunately with no instructions it all went a bit wrong and the pastry slid out the case too. At least I know the bottom is undercooked and cracked.

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I did get them out and was ready to fill!

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Here's what 25g of cheese looks like on top of that. View attachment 2138031

And half the veg, evenly scattered.

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I could not fit all the eggy goo in, not even close. I tried, I really did. Remember, this is half the amount you're meant to use already.

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It's in the oven and I'm terrified.
Did she not painstakingly mention what to do with all the leftover ingredients from the carefully costed recipe?
 
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Just to provide a quiche interlude while the monstrosity is in the oven, my old Harold sent me the latest shattenstone article yesterday. It's about the mistreatment of republicans after the queen's death last year. No mention of the staunchest and most victimised republican of them all though...

PS he meets one of them in a Wetherspoons. Will he ever learn?!
 
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It never fails to amaze me how many imaginary incredibly nasty judgmental people Jack used to bump in to on a day-to-day basis in our town. I’m absolutely Jack’s idea of white trash, as are half my old friends, and yet I don’t think we ever came across all these nasty guys she apparently used to run into constantly.
I think I can help you there. You’ve never encountered it because your and your friends’ town is actual real life Southend.
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This on the other hand is imaginary Jack getting off an imaginary train in an imaginary town just outside somewhere like (she imagines) Meridian, Mississippi circa (she’s imagining) 1953.

I’m not sure when she wrote this, but I would hazard a guess it wasn’t long after watching
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Jack’s far more of a Hilly Holbrook prim judgmental snot (etc) than she is a Celia Foote. Though you can see how she’d identify with the plucky good hearted underdog one who had the minted husband and MASSIVE HOOOGE GINORMOUS HOUSE that came with him. Oh and who also couldn’t cook for tit.
 
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Mmmm raw pastry.

Don’t eat it tenderstem, we don’t want to lose you x
 
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Trimmed, beaned and into the oven.

View attachment 2138006

At this point, I made the executive decision to half the filling ingredients, as I don't want to waste more than I have to. I had to mix my own dried herbs, but they're interchangeable anyway.

View attachment 2138008

Checking on how the spinach is 'cooling'. After over an hour at room temperature, there's very little visible ice now! View attachment 2138013

Though I'm wondering if half this watery lovelyness should go in.

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I did decide to remove the baking beans after cooking, despite not being told to, as I don't see how else I could proceed. Unfortunately with no instructions it all went a bit wrong and the pastry slid out the case too. At least I know the bottom is undercooked and cracked.

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I did get them out and was ready to fill!

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Here's what 25g of cheese looks like on top of that. View attachment 2138031

And half the veg, evenly scattered.

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I could not fit all the eggy goo in, not even close. I tried, I really did. Remember, this is half the amount you're meant to use already.

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It's in the oven and I'm terrified.
Unfortunately, you put greaseproof paper under the baking beans when the recipe did not tell you to do that. It's so much better when they get stuck to the pastry. #copyrightjackmonroe
 
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Unfortunately, you put greaseproof paper under the baking beans when the recipe did not tell you to do that. It's so much better when they get stuck to the pastry. #copyrightjackmonroe
Heat your oven to 190C/Gas Mark 5, and line the pastry loosely with greaseproof paper, baking parchment, or tin foil

It does! I followed it blindly, as if I have never baked before.
 
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Thanks to this vital research from the quiche slopalong, we know for sure it must have been obvious to guest that the suspiciously edible food photo she posted to Twitter doesn't even exist in the same universe as that recipe. Afterwards she posted twelve photos of her phone lock screen, pushing it off her profile page and down her feed. Like a cat trying to cover up its mess with dirt.
 
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Trimmed, beaned and into the oven.

View attachment 2138006

At this point, I made the executive decision to half the filling ingredients, as I don't want to waste more than I have to. I had to mix my own dried herbs, but they're interchangeable anyway.

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Checking on how the spinach is 'cooling'. After over an hour at room temperature, there's very little visible ice now! View attachment 2138013

Though I'm wondering if half this watery lovelyness should go in.

View attachment 2138015

I did decide to remove the baking beans after cooking, despite not being told to, as I don't see how else I could proceed. Unfortunately with no instructions it all went a bit wrong and the pastry slid out the case too. At least I know the bottom is undercooked and cracked.

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I did get them out and was ready to fill!

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Here's what 25g of cheese looks like on top of that. View attachment 2138031

And half the veg, evenly scattered.

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I could not fit all the eggy goo in, not even close. I tried, I really did. Remember, this is half the amount you're meant to use already.

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It's in the oven and I'm terrified.
This one perfectly illustrates how small it is. Look at it compared to the tub of baking beans 😂😭

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