Cooking: Quiche Night in Sweltering Southern California

We're having a heat wave in Southern California, with temperatures reaching triple digits in some places. There are wild fires and outages.  Here in Santa Monica, because we're near the ocean, it's a bit cooler, but it's definitely hotter than usual. It's only May, dear Readers, Spring - why are we having this terrific heat?

It was not the right afternoon to bake Quiche yesterday but I did.


I made a batch of four, then I froze two for near-future use.  Here are pictures plus my recipe.

 Quiche and salad make a nice meal.

About my salad dressing, I make this myself, from olive oil, mustard, lemon juice, crushed garlic, a bit of Himalayan salt and pepper. I've recently discovered Himalayan crystal salt, which has more nutritional benefits than regular iodized processed salt.

Quiche

2- 9 in pie pans, frozen or make (I buy Marie Callendar's deep dish frozen)
3 eggs, large
1 pint half-half (which is 2 cups)
1 white onion, large, chopped
bacon bits or sliced ham bits
10 oz Swiss cheese, grated (To simplify, I buy from Costco pre-grated cheese, sharp if possible, yellow and white cheese mixed)
dash each: salt, nutmeg, and cayenne (this is in the recipe but I just put in salt and pepper)

optional: 1 box frozen chopped spinach; you could also add mushrooms if you like; I sometimes use sausage instead of ham or bacon bits

Sprinkle bacon or ham bits on pie crust; if you're adding spinach, this goes on top of the ham or bacon bits.  You need to thaw, and drain the spinach; I even squeeze out the liquid because this can make your quiche runny);
Spread uncooked onions; spread cheese, Mix eggs, milk, and seasoning, pour this over cheese. Press cheese as it gets wet.

Bake 350 for around 50-60 min.  It's cooked when knife pulls out clean.

This freezes well, in case you want to make a bunch and freeze some for later use.
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tags: cooking, food, recipes, French, brunch, breakfast, pie, quiche, quise

This is all for now,
Cecilia