Quiche and whoopies on a lazy Sunday afternoon

It's Sunday again. My favourite lazy day! I'm not religious, but I do keep my Sundays as a day for resting and not being allowed to do any work. That is, nothing 'work' like, like design work for my studio, administration, organizing things like performances for the music group I'm in, household work or anything else that involves a certain amount of pressure -be it from others or from myself.

Since I work independently on my designs and freelance jobs, I find it even more important to draw a strict line between work and relaxation. It is so easy to keep working and working, until suddenly you crash and burn. No energy and motivation left, the smallest problems appear huge and the joy of designing seems completely gone. I've been there a lot.

Therefore: Sunday is resting day, time to reload that battery. On which my mind usually promptly overflows with ideas and plans. Pushing away the daily worries seems to clear up a lot of space in my head. So, even though it's called my 'lazy day', Sundays are usually rather productive days for me.

Today I baked a quiche for lunch from some leftover vegetables:

I also tried baking whoopie pies, or whoopies. They are a slightly dry cake with filling in between. The recipe called for the dough to be put on the baking sheet in small bolls. Since the actual whoopies appeared rather flat, I did wonder if it wouldn't be better to flatten the dough. Following recipes is not my strongest suit, but for this time I decided not to go improvising and, well, follow the recipe. But, as you can see:

Yep, the whoopies were way too round -causing them to roll over making the upper halves slide off. I re-read the recipe. It said "make round bolls of dough (check), then flatten the dough a bit (...oh.)". Curse you, Attention Deficit Disorder!

Ah well, they still tasted good.

The recipes:

Vegetarian quiche for one:

- garlic clove, chopped
- small union, chopped
- mixed vegetables, finely chopped (I used a 'soup vegetables' mix with carrot, leek and cauliflower, about 100 g)
- 2 sheets of puff pastry
- 1 egg
- some milk (I think around 50 ml)
- grated cheese
- salt, pepper, paprika powder, rosemary

Bake the vegetables and garlic in a frying pan for 5 minutes. Grease baking tin, put the puff pastry in (optional: add some breadcrumbs on the bottom), put in the vegetables+garlic, mix egg, milk and cheese and pour it over the vegetables. Bake the quiche in 30-45 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius.

Chocolate whoopies (8 pieces):

- 225 g self-rising flour
- 50 g cocoa
- 100 gram brown sugar (NL: basterdsuiker)
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 100 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 125 ml milk
- a pinch of salt

Mix butter and sugar, add eggs and salt and mix to a fluid mass. Sift the flour and cocoa and add to the mix, add the milk as last ingredient. Mix to a homogenous mass. Use 2 tablespoons to make 16 balls of dough on a baking sheet. Flatten them (and don't you forget that!). Bake 15 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius. Let them cool off and and put filling in between (I used custard, but the recipe says chocolate cream filling (to be made) or chocolate spread). Enjoy!