Home made Quiche with Italian Sausage

This is a very simple dish. Easy to make, and does not require a lot of preparation.
However, there is a min point of this dish, it is not quite filling for a dinner, if you are used to eating rice for dinner.

But, I like this dish, especially if I do not have idea what to make.
And you can vary the filling.

Here is the variant with spinach and Italian sausage.

Ingredients:
1 box of frozen puff pastry
3 eggs
100-150 gram grated cheese
150-200 gram spinach
150 ml (fresh) cream
150-200 ml milk (or adjust as needed)
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 tsp nutmeg
3-4 Italian sausages, in slices
1 piece of butter
1 onion, cut

The steps

1. Let the frozen puff pastry at room temperature and set aside
2. Heat the butter and the onion until the onion is golden brown
3. Add the spinach, stir fry for a while
4. Add the sausages and spices. Stir that for 1-2 minutes.
5. Add the milk and (fresh) cream. Note: you may want to dilute the cream with the milk first before pouring it into the pan.
6. When the spinach is well soaked and reduced in volume and the mixture is almost boiled, taste and add the salt/pepper as needed.
7. Remove the pan, and wait until it is a bit cool, then add the beaten eggs and half of the cheese.
8. Prepare and arrange the puff pastry on the pie mold.
9. Bake the puff pastry in the oven, around 180Celcius and for 5-10 minutes.
10. Take the pastry out and fill in the mold with the spinach mixture.
11. Cover with the rest of the grated cheese.
12. Put it back in the oven and bake it for around 30 minutes or until the mixture is cooked and the cheese is melted and golden brown.
13. Enjoy it.

And here is my little hero ready to eat it.

Ayam masak kecap asin dan tomat/Chicken cooked in soy sauce and tomato

Since my son, Patrick, started to eat solid food without the need to make it into paste-like consistency, we tried to let him eat with us. He will sit at the table with us, gets his utensils, and since he was around 15-16 months he started to try using utensils to feed him self. It is a mess, of course, and most of the times we have to clean the floor and our son. But he loves to feed him self and becomes more and more "independent". Hm, not really...

Anyway, this week I have chicken drumsticks. I wanted to make spicy Indonesian food, called ayam bumbu rujak (do not know how to translate it). But, of course not suitable dish for a soon-to-be-toddler (here, he is considered as "dreumes" which not yet 2 years old but also not baby anymore).

So, I put aside 3 chicken drumsticks for him. I thought they could make as 3 meals for him. Hm, wrong calculation. The first meal, he finished 1 drumstick with the rice and vegetables. But, the second meal, he finished two left over drumsticks and only a little bit of rice plus some vegetables. Next time I should have different strategy.


Ok, here is the simple recipe I used to make the dish.

Ingredients
3 chicken drumsticks *(of course you can use more, I only put aside those 3 drumsticks for 1 little man)
1 1/2 tsp light soy sauce
2 cloves garlic (chopped) or 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ginger powder
1 tsp brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1 pinch pepper
5-7 cherry tomato cut into small pieces *(of course you can subtitute it with other type of tomato)
sesame oil
olive oil

How to make it
1. Heat the pan with olive oil
2. Fry the garlic for around 1 minute
3. Add the chicken drumsticks. Fry it until it is 3/4 cooked
4. Add the soy sauce, brown sugar, salt, pepper, ginger powder and tomatos
5. Stir it until the chicken is fully cooked. If it is needed, you can add 1-2 tbs of water
6. Add sesame oil and stir it for additional 1 minute
7. Serve it with warm steamed rice

And here is photo of Patrick's chicken drumstick and rice before he attacked it.