Monday, February 18, 2013

Michelle Ho's "Chef's Table Masterpiece"!

During January 2013's Chef's Table excursion, I picked the artwork: "Family Concert" by Jan Steen.
 The Family Concert - Jan Steen

Jan Steen was a Dutch painter of the 17th century while the "Family Concert" is an example of genre painting which is a scene of everyday life.

At first glance one would think that this was something of a scene of a fun family affair, and I would tend to agree until I started to really look at the painting in detail. There is a lot of disconnect going on in this particular painting... lots of harmony and chaos thrown together. 

Very much like a traditional family scene... so that was my inspiration... harmony and chaos:

A lover of the Dutch Baby Pancake, I decided to use that as my basis and popped that in the oven to cook for a while...

From here, I decided that I loved the idea of creating a quiche that I found a simple filling / recipe for a traditional quiche and changed things up to use ingredients that are probably more prominent in Dutch cooking as opposed to French (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/spinach-quiche/). 

I did a couple of test runs which provided very good results and the one presented at the Chef's Table had a bit of a "souffle" feel to it, which just added to the "organized chaos".

All in all this felt like a win in many levels... but not at all perfected... perhaps with a few tweaks here and there I would be happier with the results, but hey, that's the perfectionist in me ;-)

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