Turning a OS disaster round!

1sttimer_2

Just thought I'd share this with you!

Decided to make a quiche and rhubarb (from garden) pie for tea and started to do pastry in mixer. It wasn't going right and then I realised instead of half fat to flour, I'd done same fat to flour! So I had to put in more flour to make pastry ok and have ended up with twice as much as needed.

Not putting that to waste, I've now got a quiche, cheese & onion pie, rhubarb pie, jam/lemon curd tarts and with left over bits, I've made a cheese and marmite square. I shouldn't need to do any cooking for the next few days anyway! :rotfl:

Has anyone else done something similar or is it only me that does daft things like this?

Hardup_Hester

I'm always doing daft things, I put it down to my age. Mine never seem to turn out as productive as yours though.
Hester

Rikki

Nope its something I think we all do occasionally. Taking our eye of the ball so to speak.

You can freeze pastry if that helps for next time.

comping_cat

Well done on making so much!!! Like the idea of cheese and marmite squares, sound lovely!!!
I love quiche, but my children refuse to eat it, so i dont make it very often now.

tr3mor

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

I'm always doing daft things, I put it down to my age. Mine never seem to turn out as productive as yours though.
Hester

If you're as young as you look in your avatar then you shouldn't be going senile yet!

fizzyfeet_2

What's a cheese and marmite square? Sounds yummy, I love marmite!

1sttimer_2

fizzyfeet wrote: »

What's a cheese and marmite square? Sounds yummy, I love marmite!

When you've got a bit of pastry left, roll it out to an oblong/square or whatever it will stretch to, gently spread marmite on one half, bit by bit, not easy but doable, I find the back of a spoon better than a knife, and grate quite a bit cheese over it, dampen edges and fold in half, put a few cuts in top and brush with milk. Cook at gas 5 for about 15/20 mins. It's scrumptious and a favourite of ours - and my OH doesn't even LIKE marmite!

Sorry I cannot give you quantities as it depends on amount of pastry used, but just do what you think looks ok.

lil_me

Wow sounds like a real baking session there.....reminds me of when I made my first microwave cake, ooops bit too much, but no chance to save any as the kids demolished it!

fizzyfeet_2

1sttimer wrote: »

When you've got a bit of pastry left, roll it out to an oblong/square or whatever it will stretch to, gently spread marmite on one half, bit by bit, not easy but doable, I find the back of a spoon better than a knife, and grate quite a bit cheese over it, dampen edges and fold in half, put a few cuts in top and brush with milk. Cook at gas 5 for about 15/20 mins. It's scrumptious and a favourite of ours - and my OH doesn't even LIKE marmite!

Sorry I cannot give you quantities as it depends on amount of pastry used, but just do what you think looks ok.

Thanks, will have to try this, bit like making cheese straws, but with marmite aswell!

JillD_2

I do this kind of thing all the time too. My all time best was doing a Tesco online delivery, and instead of ordering 5 bananas,I ordered 5 kilos of bananas. It was about 52 bananas, and it was before I had any children :eek:

We had bananas fritters, baked bananas, banana split, banana cheesecake, banana smoothies, banana on cereal, jamaican curry with banana!

I did have to take the last few to work as we got so sick of them, and this of course was all before I (recently on here) found out you could freeze them LOL