My spare time

So we all have spare time, right?  I don't have as much as I wish I did, but what little I do have is spent perusing local digs and cooking.  I am a cooking purist, yet I love so much spending time in the kitchen making things.  I figured on this Saturday I would spend a little time showing you some of my latest beauty.

I have never been a great making of custards and custard like goodies.  It's just impossible for me to get the set right cause I'm so afraid of undercooking eggs and making everyone sick.  Yeah, yeah, our eggs come from a local farm, and probably don't have any yukkies in them, but woah.

So the other day I have a few things in my fridge that were getting ready to go bad.  I hate wasting food (just ask my waist line!) and so I started thinking of all the things I could make with: about 10 button mushrooms, a head of broccoli, some cheddar cheese, 3 eggs, half a cup of cream, and one onion.  A very random assortment indeed, but that was everything in my fridge that looked a little floopy.

Doesn't that look yummy?

Well what can you make?  A quiche!  So that is what I made.  And let me tell you, it was more delicious than anyone could have imagined!  Honestly it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, which surprised me!  I had plans to spend quite a bit of the day in the kitchen, making sure I took the time to make it perfect.  It wasn't nearly as long a process as I thought either.  I basically softened onions in oil, then threw in the mushrooms to sweat down, then threw in some small broccoli florets that I cut even smaller just long enough for them to brighten up.  I mixed the cream, eggs, and about a cup of milk all together for the custard part.  I did cheat a little, I used a prefab crust because I suck at crust making, like really really suck.

I blind baked the crust with some beans on parchment paper holding it down.  Then layered some cheese on the bottom, poured in the onion and mushroom mixture, then some more cheese, then filled it up with the custard.  Baked it for about 40 min at 350F, and it was amazing.  Ah-May-Zing!  I think I need to take more pictures of my process from now on, giving you some good food porn, but for now you'll just have to deal with my non recipe recipe!

Pair that with a tall glass of local chocolate milk and BAM a nutritious and delicious supper on the table!  I'll leave you with one more picture of the yumminess!  Trust me, worth every minute of time it took to make.

Look at those yummy layers.  So good!

Until next time!

(all pictures are my own and copyright to me!)