Successes and failures

OK, so this is not earth-shattering news, but I made my own pastry for the first time today :-) Buoyed by my success with making scone dough in the food processor, I thought I'd give wholemeal pastry a go and make a "proper" quiche (I usually make crustless ones).


This is the result: zucchini and mushroom quiche made with homemade pastry and my own organic zucchini from the garden:

I have yet to work out the fan-forced thingy so that the tops of everything don't go brown all the time - I don't really want to use aluminium foil if I can avoid it, although I suppose each bit can be reused several times if I am careful...

My other thing I had a go at today was low-fat homemade sweetened yoghurt. Not a success :-( The low-fat milk obviously doesn't have the same thick texture as the regular, and the texture of the yoghurt was a bit runny and thin for my liking, for a start. I also added some sugar to sweeten it, since the kids don't like plain yoghurt. I didn't have castor sugar so used organic raw sugar that I had whizzed through the blender. I don't know whether it was that or not, but the yoghurt also had a strange lumpy testure, not smooth like the plain yoghurt I have been making. So it's back to the drawing board for that! Next time I will add more skim milk powder to it to thicken it a bit more, and perhaps try "proper" castor sugar?