Hmmmyum... this is a great quiche for parties, and whenever I make a large batch, I make sure to cut some pieces off and throw them in the freezer. They're great for a quick dinner!
I don't have a perfect recipe for it, because I always sort of throw it all together and follow my kitchen instinct :)
Put the dough on the bottom of a oven dish, spread a layer of grated cheese over it, then arrange the tomato slices next to each other, covering the layer of cheese. Chop quite some fresh basil and sprinkle it over the dish. Mix a few eggs with some pepper (you don't need salt -the cheese is salt enough!), chopped garlic and finely chopped onion and poor it over the dish. Make sure it divides well. then top it off with a nice layer of grated cheese and put this in the oven for about 45 minutes, until the cheese is goldenbrown.
If you can, leave it to cool and eat it the next day - it will taste even better! (cold or warm)
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I was commissioned to draw the White Witch and I now this is one of my favorite DC Comics characters.
Last month, Sheffield University began allowing the public limited access to a secret, little, teaching museum, which was created in 1905 for the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences: the Alfred Denny Museum.
It's just one room, but full of wonderfully traditional, wooden-framed display cases and slender, wooden drawers, all of which are crammed with skeletons, taxidermy and odd things floating in jars. Sketching heaven. Unfortunately, we were only allowed 1 hour, and that included the very interesting 20 minute talk by a 3rd year student, about the acquisition of some of the stranger creatures.
I whizzed round with my sketchbook and captured specimens as they caught my eye. I was using my brand new Sailor pen for the first time:
It's designed for Japanese calligraphy, but it is just the ticket for on-location sketching as, though it's a fountain pen, it allows for extreme variations in line width, and glides really smoothly across the page, because of its curiously bent nib:
The sketch below is only about a 3rd of the massive python skeleton mounted on the wall in the university foyer:
Some interesting news: the museum's curator likes the sound of SketchCrawling and it looks like we might get back in soon, for a longer session this time, just for sketchers. Can't wait!!
The other nice thing, was that I got 2 new recruits to SketchCrawl North while I was drawing. That's what I love about sketching in public: people just come up and chat, so you make all sorts of new connections.
A hedgehog in the woods, smoking a pipe and brewing tea. He's using a steel enamel cup, which I love. This is one of those commissions where the patron said "do what you want" which is the best thing ever. It's a gift. You'll always get something interesting with that request, I think.
The newest page from my upcoming
Memoirs.
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A new one here. When I started this it was going to be one of my trademark pen drawings. Just a bunch of pens on a page. I don't know at what point it became London Bridge. That's even if it is London bridge and not, in fact, Tower Bridge.
Can you read the text on this one? Cos, I seriously have NO idea what I'm doing when it comes to resizing these days. It's pot luck.
Anyway, this one drawing is not just new to my blog, but it's
new to my shop too. I've put a few originals up for sale over the last few days. Have a gander
HERE.
Ah, the strains of Pfitzner's Third Thigh Concerto still bring a tear to my eye...
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Inking the last three pages of Maddy Kettle, and I should be all done the inks by this weekend.
Two new pages for my forthcoming
Memoirs.
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I drew this in bed, listening to the morning news about the death of a president. Yet another in my
Memoirs series.
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Today's model was excellent to draw, albeit something of a narcissist. He suggested the religious pose.
Biro, A4 size. Click to enlarge.
Two more pages from my upcoming
Memoirs.
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The time has come to write my autobiography.
Paper 53 app on iPad. Click to enlarge.
All self-explanatory, I trust.
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Two more pages from the forthcoming
Memoir.paper53 on iPad. Click to enlarge.
It just occurred to me that I could draw the person I'm Skyping while they rant on unawares.
Pen and ink 15cm x 10cm. Click to enlarge.
Recent sketching in various cafes.
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I've been trickling new images from my
Memoirs into this blog too slowly, and have fallen behind. So here are 16 pages at once.
All created on iPad using Paper app. Click to enlarge.
My latest page of
Memoirs. It's all true, I swear it.
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Two more pages from my forthcoming
Memoirs.
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Hello
Is your ink waterproof?
Yes, sort of. I have been trying to find a waterproof ink that works in a fountain pen. The one I am using here is Noodlers, which is only waterproof on certain papers. I have tried an acrylic ink that said it was okay in a fountain pen, but the flow wasn't good. The Noodlers flows beautifully.
Hi Lynne, thanks for sharing your pen..ive just oredred one from Andy :)
In the 90s i bought a Rotring Artpen (Fine), it was great for sketching too..the ink was really nice, black and smooth..you could wet your finger and rub it to make it wash. I still have it, but no ink :(
I was looking for Rotring ink on Amazon UK, but read your blog and decided to try the Sailor instead.
Cheers Susan (australia).
Hi Susan - I have an Artpen too. It is very different to the Sailor, as the line width is more constant. I fancied being able to get really thick and thin marks, like I can with a graphite stick. You can buy a converter by the way, so you can load any ink into the Artpen, rather than having to find the right cartridges. Have fun!