We've been trying our hand at growing vegetables, and one of the few things we've actually been able to grow in abundance has been Silverbeet! I found myself with too much to know what to do with, and a quiche seemed like the perfect option! Old Fashioned Silverbeet and Feta Quiche
Prep time: 15 min
Cooking time: 45 min- 60 min
Ingredients:
Frozen reduced fat flaky puff pastry- 1 and a half sheets (Or just normal flaky puff pastry)
Silverbeet- about 10-12 large leaves, chopped roughly
Onion- medium, diced
Feta cheese- 200g (1 average package)
Garlic- 3 cloves, minced
Vegetable oil- 2 Tbsp
Milk- 1 cup
Eggs- 3
Egg yolks- 2
Nutmeg- 1/2 tsp
Salt & pepper- to taste
How to make:
1) Turn oven on to 190 degrees Celsius
2)Take 1 and a half sheets of frozen flaky puff pastry out to thaw 10-15 min before starting to prepare the rest of your ingredients.
3) Line a quiche tin with baking paper/ spray with cooking oil.
4)Press pastry into your quiche tin, you may have to chop random bits of the half sheet and press into the main sheet of pastry to cover the whole tin. Place in the fridge until your just about to put your mixture in.
5) Heat your vegetable oil in a fry pan, cook onions and garlic for 5-10 minutes until translucent.
6) Add silverbeet to the fry pan and continue to cook until the silverbeet just starts to reduce in size. Take off heat, set aside.
7) Crumble feta into the silverbeet/ onion mixture.
8) Place your silverbeet/ feta mixture into the pastry lined quiche tin.
9) In a new bowl, whisk together eggs, yolk milk, nutmeg, salt & pepper. Pour over the back of a spoon, over the top of the silverbeet mixture.
10) Fold down the corners of your pastry for an old fashioned look.
11) Bake in the oven for 45-60 minutes until pastry is golden brown and the mixture has cooked right through....just make sure you keep checking after about 45-minutes!
12)....And ENJOY!!
So lately my Jewellery and accessory collection has been overflowing, and I really needed to do something about it cluttering up my dressers!Here's a few tips to get you started too if you're feeling a little like me!
A necklace tree which was tall enough to hold my long necklaces was hard to find, but I found this at a vintage market for cheap as chips! If you need more length, position it so it is overhanging over the edge of your dresser, just be aware how tantalising this may be to cats. It's important to not double up your necklaces per "branch", because trust me- they get tangled...If your at the point of needing to double up, you need to cull some jewellery, or invest in another necklace stand!...
It's great to recycle old bottles and turn them into pretty bracelet holders! even better, they can double as vases. I like to layer them in different heights and use different glass textures to add some difference.
On a single dresser or table, I try to match the colours of whatever items I'm using to display my jewellery...and because the pattern on the plate is so pretty, I chose to display only a few brooches on it, to let the pattern show through, and help tie the colours of the stands together.
I keep most of my beauty products tucked away in drawers, but my daily necessities have earned a spot on the dresser! I like to keep my makeup brushes and tools stored out in the air so they can stay dry and bacteria free. teacups and retro cups of all kind are the perfect holders!
Yes, that is a spice rack holding my nail polish! I found like for $1 at an op shop, filled with gorgeous little glass spice bottles (Which are being prepped for another project, so watch this space!) I'd like to paint it white, to match the rest of my jewellery stands. I'm terribly slack at actually putting my nail polish on, because I can't handle the drying time, but this way when I have to look at them every day, it forces me to get use out of them!
The little rail at the front also doubles as the perfect place to hang my scarf from!, which are also every colour of the rainbow.
I have quite the collection of vintage clip on earrings, which belonged to my Grandma, which I treasure! This old candy bowl was perfectly suited to being able to clip the earrings into the little holes. I find it easiest to keep one particular type of jewellery in one place, so its easy to find what your looking for!
So you'll see there are lots of creative ways to organise and display your beautiful adornments, and the creative possibilities are endless! I'm always seeing great DIY or re purpose ideas popping up on pinterest for storing jewellery, and when I get around to some of those projects, I'll be sure to show you! Do you have any creative ways that you like to store your jewellery and accessories?
