mmm, quiche

[illicitlearning]

I made some quiches! Here is the recipe I used; I think it is pretty good.

You'll need:
A large mixing bowl (seriously. pretty big.)
Mixing spoon (for mixing the filling)
Whisk/fork (for beating eggs)
Pie tins (i used two, you don't have to)
Frying pan (for sautéing stuff)
A little butter (unless you wanna sauté using the bacon fat, which may or may not work)

For the crust:
2c flour
3/4c shortening
5tbsp cold water
1tsp salt

Preheat oven to 450. Mix flour and salt. Knead in the shortening. Sprinkle in water, kneading as you go. Once it makes a nice ball, roll the dough into pie crusts (i recommend doing this on wax paper). Put your crusts in pie tins, making sure there are no holes, and the edges are all nice and pretty. Bake at 450 for ~10min (just lightly browned).

For the filling:
6 large eggs
1c (8oz) sour cream
1c (8oz) half&half
1c (8oz) blarney castle gouda style cheese
3/4c (6oz) brie
3/4c (6oz) cheddar
1 can (5oz) canned spinach
1 large sweet onion
8oz button mushrooms
8 strips bacon
4 cloves garlic
1tsp salt
1/2tsp pepper
large dash paprika

Preheat oven to 350. Cook the bacon and crumble it. Grate the cheeses (or kinda mush the cheese, in the case of the brie). Drain the spinach. Dice the onion, slice the mushrooms if they're not already. Mince the garlic. Sauté onion, mushrooms and garlic together. Beat the eggs. Mix in pretty much everything else (ie, sourcream, half&half, all cheese, spinach, onion, mushrooms, garlic, bacon, salt, pepper, paprika). Pour into pie shells. You could probably fit it all into one pie tin, but I split it into two. Bake at 350 for 45min to an hour, until nicely browned and a knife comes out clean-ish. (My quiches stayed in for ~53 minutes, but really could have gone either way; how long you leave them in is up to your preference.) Remove from the oven and let cool for ~10min. Eat hot tasty quiche!

Thoughts: Double the mushrooms, maybe. Perhaps more meat, and possibly use sausage or ham instead of bacon. Probably really good with tomato -- maybe slice some on top after it's baked, or even bake it in?

Comments

[veritaslox.livejournal.com]

Any info as to how much mushrooms make up a package?

[illicitlearning.livejournal.com]

8oz in a package. i'm thinking you could pretty much get away with using 8oz of everything in this quiche :P