As the nights get colder we are picking the last of our summer veggies. Our always late to ripen tomatoes, the last zucchini and lots of rainbow silverbeet.
Rainbow silverbeet, or rainbow chard if you live on the other side of the world, is one of our many ‘bonus plants’. They are a bonus because we never plant them, they just self seed and pop up in various spots around the veggie garden.
Rainbow Silverbeet is really good for you. Eat it like you would spinach, add the tiny, very young, leaves to salads, steam larger leaves gently as a side dish, or add to a variety of recipes.
I love plants like that. Great rewards for absolutely no time or effort!
To use up the last of our homegrown veggies we’ve created this ‘rainbow quiche’ recipe… so called because it’s full of rainbow silverbeet, as well as other great things.
Rainbow Quiche Recipe
1 small zucchini grated
2 small carrots grated
a bunch of rainbow silver beat chopped
a handful of cherry tomatoes, or 2 medium tomatoes chopped
5 eggs
1 cup of self raising flour
1 cup of grated cheese
50ml oil
Onion, herbs, salt and pepper.
The exact amounts of vegetables in this recipe doesn’t matter. If I don’t have zucchini, I use more carrots and silverbeet. If I don’t have fresh tomatoes I chuck in some chopped sun-dried tomatoes and olives instead. So it’s great for using up left overs or whatever is in the garden.
Preheat your oven to 180 Celsius and grease a dish or deep sided tray.
Mix it all the ingredients together, pour them into the dish and cook for 30-45 minutes or until cooked in the middle.
The Wooden Crate Kitchenware Give Away
Thanks to my new advertiser The Wooden Crate, I have some gorgeous kitchenware to give away.
The Wooden Crate is an online store selling gifts and home-wares. They have a great selection of gorgeous and interesting items but when I saw this gorgeous green bamboo bowl I was in love! It is made from environmentally sustainable bamboo and comes from Vietnam, and is as beautiful in real life as it looks on the site.
These gorgeous matryoshka cooking accessories caught the eye of my ‘little chef’. They are lots of fun and easy to use. The measuring cups stack one inside each other and keep Noey entertained if we don’t need them for cooking!
One lucky reader will win both the M-spoons (measuring spoons) and the M-cups (measuring cups) as well as the gorgeous green bamboo bowl.
To win, leave a comment on this post telling me what you’d cook using the M-spoons and M-cups. The most delicious, interesting and amusing answer will win.
To enter you must be an Australian resident and provide a valid email address. Entries are limited to one per household.
Entries close 6pm AEST Monday April 23rd 2012, the winner will be contacted by email and announced on this post. The winner must contact me within 5 days or the prize will be re-drawn. The winner’s contact details will be passed on to The Wooden Crate who mail prize directly to the winner.
{disclosure: The Wooden Crate is a paid advertiser in Picklebums. I was given a bamboo bowl, a set of M-spoons and M-cups to review. The ideas and opinions expressed in this post are my own.}
i am writing a comment to tell you that I have my baking dish out waiting for me to make this tomorrow! So easy and I can’t wait to try it! After my big baking attempts last week I realised I need some new essentials like these! So baking it would be ! xx
My daughter and I would make our famous butterfly cakes,
the utensils would be easier for measuring and easier to make.
Having fun in the kitchen is our aim, we make it a game
flour and sugar everywhere, and laughing all the same.
My partner is begging me to make your wonderful looking quiches! So thats what i will do
It’s my STRAWBERRY MERINGUE CAKE, a dessert unbeaten,
Best celebration cake, nowhere else eaten.
Family loves it, leaves all guests replete,
All birthdays: Strawberries, sponge, meringue layers… SWEET!!!
How adorable :) I’d use these beautiful Babushka measuring spoons + cups to make delicious and delicate Russian tea cakes!
It’s sad when the family wince
“Mum’s cooked – spare us more mince”
They moan, wish I was deaf
with M-gear I’d hear Mmm-mince ala M-asterChef!
Oooooh tough choice on what I would use them to cook first… uMmmmmmmm – to assist me in making M-Muffins for my wonderful M-Mum on M-Mothers Day
I would make a Russian Borscht soup and potato perogi ( half moon soft dough stuffed with mashed potato, boiled like gnocchi and sauted in butter, diced onions and bacon. Served with a dollop of sour cream.
I haven’t scored any ‘bonus’ silver beet from our garden yet, but the stuff we planted just kept giving and giving.
We use Jamie’s spinach and pinenut pie as an inspiration, and then my daughter and I kind of wing it, depending on whats in the fridge and garden, and how much of any herb or spice she wants to add in! A set of m cups and m spoons would help us to record and replicate our successful inventions more accurately.
We made an interesting discovery last time we made it: while 2yo daughter was in charge of hand stirring the egg mix, mum was turned away toasting pinenuts. We discovered that if two yr old starts saying “knee knee knee” whilst stirring, it’s best not to delay turning back to her, as she was busily discovering how the mixture felt being poured all over her bare legs!
Potato Crusted Lental Hotpot…main ingredients are whatever veggies you have on hand, pre-cook with lots of tomatoes, tomatoe paste, curry, cooked lentals..any herbs you like! Microwave pototoes and layer on top! Bake…avoid each other the next day ’cause its such a ‘healthy’ dish! Lol!
These would be super helpful for the French Bistro themed brunch I’m planning for my mum this Mother’s day!
My delicious kitkat chocolate cake sure would taste that little bit better using these awesome utensils!
Green vegetables and salmon pasta, This recipe is not only healthy but really delicious! It’s quick to prepare and uses ingredients that are in most pantries.”
After just returning from the farm with some home grown pumpkin next on the baking list is Pumpkin scones. cant wait.