It's a Classical Life

Welcome back to It's a Classical Life.  I hope you have been enjoying this season (autumn or spring); finding moments to connect with nature, appreciate the simple things, read the classics and enjoy a slower pace as we approach the holiday season. I wanted to share with you a recipe today of one of my favourite spring dishes - quiche. I use fresh eggs from the chickens and fresh spinach from the garden and this dish is delicious! Here are some photos of the different steps in the recipe, so you can see how it looked as I made it. Sautéing the spinach, onions and garlic Assembling the quiche - the tomatoes are placed gently on top Served with some no-mayo coleslaw I chose to finish off some coleslaw with my piece of quiche; my son and daughter had roast vegetables with theirs. I prefer to eat my coleslaw without mayonnaise and a drizzling of French dressing. This meal was light yet filling and tasted delish! I love that we got to use home-grown produce as well; it certainly ma...

Image Via Anzac Portal This week Australia, New Zealand, and other countries around the world remembered and commemorated Anzac Day. For those of you who don't know, Anzac Day (standing for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) falls on April 25 in commemoration of the landing these forces made on the beach of Gallipoli, Turkiye on April 25 1915.  It is traditional to read the ode, We Will Remember Them (from Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, 1919). This is such a moving ode, and I recommend that you listen to it if you can, followed by the playing of the Last Post. These two pieces never fail to make me cry. You can listen to a rendition of the ode and the Last Post here . A minute's silence is observed, usually at 11am. The term Anzac has come to represent many things for Australians and New Zealanders. I don't claim to speak for all of us, but some of the things that I think of when I hear this term is courage, camaraderie, determination and loyalty. A...