I got the crazy idea that I should make quiche.Because I never have. So off to the store to get the ingredients. One potentially fatal flaw to the quiche outcome was that the local store had only ready made graham cracker pie shells for sale. I grabbed them anyway.To hell with first time quiche and pie shell making at the same time? I am not stupid you know.So the crusts were a bit sweet- it didn’t kill us. It made us stronger.
I made 2 quiche:one with cheese, onion and mushroom- the other with cheese, broccoli and onion. Our toaster oven could only fit one quiche at a time and the mushroom was the one I made first so that is the one we ate for dinner.The broccoli sits in the fridge,unmolested for now.
Although it was 100% vegetarian the mushroom quiche was highly edible. That and a side of brussels sprouts was plenty for 2 folks and we are almost done with our first week of less red meat more (antibiotic free or kosher) chicken and vegetable diet.We haven’t eaten red meat since the lamb and lentil stew I wrote of a hundred years ago (last week).
The unfortunate side affect of a more vegetable laden diet is gas. Allegedly less meat is supposed to free up the bowel and freshen the breath-but all we have noticed so far is gas and greener pee. Wondrous!
To make quiche get some eggs,light cream and cheese and a pie crust and assemble whatever other ingredients you want to go into it.
For the Mushroom and Cheese:
I chopped up the mushrooms and onions and grated a whole block of muenster cheese and put about half a cup of each in the bottom of the pie shell.I saved half of the cheese for the other quiche. I beat 4 eggs and added some black pepper, nutmeg(pinch) and salt(another pinch) then I added some half and half(half a cup) and the rest of my mushrooms, cheese and onion. I mixed that for a short while then poured it all into the pie shell and sprinkled parmesan over the top. I also sprinkled paprika, just a little bit…just for that great paprika color. Then I put it in the 375 degree toaster oven for one hour.
Like a lot of things one bakes you can tell it is done by sticking a fork in it and in the quiche’s case it seemed done when the fork met resistence.
This was a very economical meal:
2 pie shells, 2 dollars each.
1 head broccoli, 2 dollars
8 oz cheese, 2 dollars
1 half cup of carton half and half, 2 dollars
1 box mushrooms, 2 dollars
8 farm raised eggs, 2 dollars
1 medium to large onion from a bag that costs about 2 dollars
Why is everything 2 dollars? Coincidence.
Anyway, about 14 bucks of ingredients made 2 quiches which could feed about 8 people if they don’t insist on eating the whole thing by themselves.