木头; 木纹

i made martha's buttermilk waffles this morning. the hefty amount of batter required some egg whites to be whipped and then folded in, which further increased the volume of batter.
the result? an overload of waffles. the batter had a very nice cinnamon smell, but the waffles didn't. still, they were plainly nice.

then the baking session with weijie. we made spinach and goat cheese quiche and rustic apple-pear galette - both from the american book. (by the way, i just got the textbook of the culinary institute of america's baking and pastry faculty, baking and pastry: mastering the art and craft. i shall call it the textbook from now on.)

so: the spinach and goat cheese quiche. the goat cheese was bought from carrefour, because ntuc doesn't stock it. so were the sun-dried tomatoes. in short, this pie was expensive!
plucking the spinach leaves and dicing the onions. then the onions are sautéed in oil, and stir-fried with the spinach.
the spinach and onions are spread onto a partially blind baked pie shell. then a custard mixture is poured over everything.
baking the pie. the eggy mixture slowly turns from glistening liquid into a matte, softly-set custard.
quiche! this was really nice; a big slice would be enough for a meal, a small one enough for tea!

then we made a galette. the original recipe was for a peach galette, but we did apples and pears instead. the galette is a free-form pie; the pie dough is rolled onto a flat sheet, fruit is piled in the centre, and the border is folded inwards to finish the pie.
the recipe called for ladyfinger crumbs to be used to abosrb the liquid from the fruit, but i couldn't find any. so i used crushed crackers.
the galette didn't look as appealing as the picture in the book, and frankly i don't know if the base crust was completely baked. in any case, i won't be eating it; it's for weijie's colleagues at the polyclinic.

on to weather news. the sunny afternoon turned unexpectedly gloomy in the evening, culminating in a thunderstorm, through which we sat in front of the computer and played mystery case files.
i just remembered that i haven't finished reading my sister's keeper.