Quiche, Baby, Quiche, original fantasy painting

This is another original painting in a series of fantasy/fantastic creatures, in which I asked friends to choose a painting and write something alongside of it. I previously posted "Whachamacallit", a painting which was interpreted based on a song.

For this painting, I wanted to paint/invent/create a character with as large a forehead as physically possible, without making the character fall over. When I was finished these, rather silly, words came up in my mind, so I had the creature say it: "Quiche, Baby, Quiche". For the accompanying text, a friend found inspiration in a recipe of an actual quiche.

"Quiche, Baby, Quiche", 50x70cm, mixed media on paper, glued on panel.

Quiche with bacon and mushrooms, serves 2

(note: the recipe was originally written in French, then I translated it to Dutch for an exhibition, and now I've translated it to English - so some subtlety may have disappeared along the translations!)

Ingredients:

• a piece of either very cheap, or very homemade puff pastry,
• some olive oil or butter,
• 250 gr. greasy bacon (cubes),
• 2 eggs from you or your neighbor's free-range chickens,
• 150 gr. mushrooms,
• lots of pepper, some salt if you insist, any and all herbs you prefer,
• 40 gr. ground cheese,
• 2 dl cream

Spread the dough on a preferably clean oven dish. Poke holes in it with a fork, and put it away in a pre-chilled refrigerator. Check if your favourite cold appetizer is in the fridge. If it isn't, now's a good time to put there. Preheat the oven if you're in a hurry, but there's still plenty of work to do.

Fry the bacon in the olive oil or butter. Stir occasionally, add pepper regularly. Remove the bacon from the pan with as little juice as possible. The less juice there is in the quiche, the better. Look at that juicy juice and imagine that in your stomach.

Continue quickly: fry the mushrooms in the same pan, that makes for less dishwashing. Season with pepper and/or any herbs you like, including but not limited to Mexican, Provençal or Chinese spicy herbs. Drain and mix with the bacon. Take a break and pat yourself on the back: you are now halfway!

Mix the cream with the raw eggs (better crack them first!) along with as much pepper and spicy herbs you can manage, in a bowl. Along with some salt if you insist. Pro tip: you can give the egg shells back to your or your neighbor's chickens.

Take the dish with the puff pastry out of the fridge, and spread the bacon and mushrooms on it. Now drown it in the cream-egg-mix. Sprinkle the cheese on it. According to the recipe 40 gr. is enough, but add some more, add a lot more.

If you haven't done so already, it is now time to get your cold appetizer out of the fridge, and enjoy a drink. Put the quiche in the oven only if you feel like eating 30 minutes later. Aim the temperature of the oven between 190 ° and 220 °, which usually seems sufficient.

The quiche is ready when it's simmering golden brown. Turn off the oven, if you have been drinking long enough you don't want to forget this step. Look at your masterpiece while it is still too hot to eat. Instagram it or put it on steemit, sing a sing-along-song. Quiche, baby, quiche!

Recipe by Guy Kiekên

(The recipe is actually very good, feel free to try it out!)

Thanks for looking! And let me know if you made the recipe!