Baking a quiche the studly rooster way
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Start the oven preheating to 350 degrees while you do everything else.
Step one is to roll out the pie crust. Use pillsbury; the cheap ones say
they have the same ingredients but they don't roll out as easily. Poke
holes in the pie crust with a fork or it will bubble on you when you are
pre-baking it.
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Don't worry if the over isn't fully pre-heated before you put
the pie crust in. |
This pie crust has been sitting in the fridge for a while, so it
stuck together; flatten it out with your fingers |
Poke holes along the edges with a fork |
Then do the inside as well |
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Stick the pie crust in the oven while you prepare the other ingredients.
This is a "half garbage" quiche ... had some leftover squash but I'm
sautéing some onion as well because there's not quite enough.
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Make sure you have pets around in case of any spills
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I like to cut the onions center out to make sure the pieces are
all small
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Just saute the onions in a little oil. The squash just
gets cut up; no need to heat it. |
Now get the egg mixture mixed
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six eggs (do the eggs first so you can fish out any eggshell
bits that break off. The easiest way is to use a
half-eggshell to scrape it out. |
an equivalent amount of whole milk
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Dash of salt |
a little bit of pepper and other spices. I sometimes use
sandwich sprinkle, sometime Parisian sprinkle, but you can use
powered garlic or onion, dried basil, whatever. Mix it up. |
By this time, the pie crust is ready to come out of the oven a golden
brown. Put in the fillings and whatever shredded (or chopped up)
cheese you want. Usually when I'm doing squash I use goat cheese
but I had an open package of shredded Mexican cheese. Stick it in
the oven and set a timer for 30 minutes.
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Then clean up the kitchen because if you don't your mother senses it
from here and it makes her sleep restless. At the 30 minute mark,
check your quiche. It will probably not be done, but it will be
close and you don't want to over cook it.
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At 30 minutes, the quiche is not quite ready; the center is
dimpled. You can test it if you're not sure with a table
knife; stick it in, and if the blade comes back dry, the quiche
should be read. |
Watch if for the next few minutes and pull the quiche out when
it's a little golden around the edges and the center is flat or
puffed up a bit. |
And you are ready to enjoy your studly rooster quiche
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