You Win Some, You Lose Some

It was a quiche-tastrophe. (Sharyl's comments in pink)

It looked like this: 

But it tasted like this: 

Mom and I diligently followed Ben’s quiche recipe.  Made the crust with all it’s beautiful herbs.   

Mixed up the eggs and other yummy goodness.  Poured it into the crust and popped it into the oven.  It emerged looking beautiful, perfectly set.  We were very excited to try it because it looked so beautiful.  It was like biting into a bunch of very salty grass.  No really.  It was bad.  You couldn’t taste the cheese or the eggs, not even the bacon.  All you could taste was salt and green. (It was a deep dish pie pan and it needed more filling, however, thank goodness we didn't use any more ingredients cause there would have been that much more to throw away)

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 We think it is a typo in the book.  The recipe called for 2 teaspoons of salt. (Oh Ben, you Salty dog you)  Together with the teaspoon of salt in the crust and we might as well just dumped the salt shaker on our plates.  I triple checked that recipe.  I did not read it wrong.  2 teaspoons of salt.

 The same day as the quiche incident, we also made a lemon cream pie.  Called for the rind and juice of 6 lemons.  That was way too much. (and Lord knows Deanna and I LOVE lemon) We used an electric juicer and it created  A LOT of juice. (can you say "PUCKER UP" )  Half the lemons probably would have been just right.  Or squeezing them by hand. (The book should have said squeeze by hand because those of us with an electric juicer went overboard)                                            

These are not the Lemon Cream Pie

 We also made yeast rolls like the kind that they serve at Road House Grill.  Our local Road House has sadly closed its doors.  I adore their rolls so I am trying to find a recipe for them now that I can’t get my fix at the restaurant.  Yes, we cheated on Ben.  Get used to it, it’ll probably happen again.  (Good thing we have no hopes of getting a book deal out of this adventure)  Lots of work, with all the rising time.  Definitely not a quick thing to cook, more of an all day commitment.  Anyway, they were very good but not as good as the restaurants.  I’m still on the hunt. (I would like to find a recipe for the yummy biscuits at Red Lobster)

So, in order to redeem ourselves, we had a guest Chick come down and bring her quiche recipe.

My cousin Vickie brought her tried and true recipe down the next weekend and we made 5 (!) quiches. 

They were yummy. (The was about an hour's worth of veggie prep work before we started making the crusts)  Lots of veggies, lots of cheese and lots of bacon! (Holy Quiche Batman!)

Not a lot of salt.  All 5 turned out perfectly. (We could have fed an army)   I ended up freezing the pieces I took home, cut into wedges and wrapped in foil.  For the most part, they held up well to freezing.  But the ones with zucchini and mushrooms got a little soggy. (I ate mine every morning for breakfast, cold, right from the fridge, YUMMY)

Mushrooms, Ham and Cheese

Asparagus, Mushrooms and Ham

Classic Spinach and Bacon

Sorry this took so long to post.  I suck. (Yes you do! HAHAHA)  Actually, you are a very busy Mommy and work and children come first. : ) Up next is Tomato Basil Soup and Angel Biscuits.  That post will be up later this week.