You Name It, I Fucked It

On Tuesday the 28th April, for a function, i was required to make two quiches. Not a problem i thought. Lol i thought very wrong.

Short Crust Pastry

The first thing that went wrong was my pastry base. A simple short pastry was made on the Friday before. The plan was to then roll out the bases and blind bake them on the Saturday so i wouldn't have to when i came in on Tuesday. Unfortunately, preparing the bases slipped my mind until after service on Saturday night when i found the short pastry wrapped up under my bench. (It was put there mid-afternoon that day to bring up to room temperature to make it a bit more maliable.) By this time it was too late to blind bake them, so i left it until the Tuesday morning.

How Not to Make a Quiche

Now, back to Tuesday. Once the short pastry was bought up to room temperature, i began to roll it out. It was, as i found, too short to work with. So asking my Chef what i could do, we decided on transferring it all into a bowl and adding a little more liquid to it. That was all fine. So with my new and improved short pastry, i pressed it into the greased bases and blind baked it for 20mins. All good i thought. WRONG! As i pulled out the par-baked bases i noticed cracks. "No problem" i thought, "ill just patch this up with my leftover short pastry. Oh fuck they're in the bin!"
So making up a very quick new batch of short pastry i finally had something to patch the cracks up with.

The Bloody Egg Mixture

As the bases sat to cool lightly. i made the egg mixture. Heres something no one can fuck up. Oh but i did. I was aware of the ratio of egg to milk, unfortunately, somewhere i miscalculated immensely. 2 egg to 200ml of milk. Right. So how the fuck did i end up with 4 eggs to 1 litre of milk? No wonder i failed maths.
Luckily Super Chef was here to save the day. He had asked me how many eggs i had put into this egg mixture. As i told him, he just looked at me funny and told me to add in four more. Now i had 8 eggs to 1 litre. Still not enough. Super Chef scratched his head and asked me once again if i had enough eggs. I told him what formula i was working from. (Once i had told him, i realized that i was meant to have 10 to a litre not 4 or 8.)With that, i was shot the weirdest look followed by a loud chuckle and an "Oh Cass".

How to Bake a Quiche in Under 10 Minutes

So another problem fixed with the help of Super Chef. The bases were filled and covered with the now perfected egg mix. What else could go wrong? WELL... by the time we had fixed all my little fuck ups, i was running out of time. Thankfully Super Chef once again saved this 'Damsel in Distress' with his trusty microwave. Due to the fact that we had 10 minutes to produce the Quiches (fully cooked) and in the oven they would have taken at least 40 minutes, we had to use the microwaves to get these bloody things cooked in time.
7 Minutes later the quiches where finished. Just in time to plate them and serve. It was not a good start to the day, and the rest of the day wasn't much better.

SUPER CHEF SAVES THE DAY!

Four Things i learnt from this day

1) Never throw out supplies until completely finished with.

2) Know the formula/recipe to work with

3) Never under estimate the power of the microwave

4)I need to screw my head on when i get out of bed =)