Cheesy Bacon Quiche - Printable Recipe

Quiche is one of my go-to meals!
And I have an easy one to share with you today.

      quiche: (keesh) 
              is an open-face pastry crust with a 
              filling of eggs and milk which, when
              baked, becomes a custard. It can be 
              made with vegetables, meat and seafood.

This definition tells me that as long as I have
milk and eggs, I can pretty much dump any
thing else I have in a pie crust and have 
dinner on the table in about 30 minutes!

That's a winner in my book.

And the fact that you can "customize"
your quiche for your family puts this
meal over the top!



Today's recipe is a very basic one, you could 
switch out the bacon for any meat or seafood
and use any cheese that compliments the 
protein you chose.
OR
Use whatever you have on hand; leftovers
work great!

My hubby likes to make a big breakfast for the family

over the weekend; bacon, eggs, pancakes and french

toast. Its a regular breakfast bar. 

So this past weekend, I asked him to make some extra

bacon so I could make quiche this week.

Well, you would have thought I spoke in a foreign 

language, both my son & hubby cocked their 

heads and in unison said, "There is no such

thing as "extra" bacon!"

Ooookay!

So I just bagged some up before bringing it 

to the breakfast table and no one even noticed.

This quiche starts simply by putting your pie

crust in the pie plate. Homemade crust or

store bought, both work fine.

Feel free to make a pretty crimped edge,

I just throw my store bought crust in this

time and didn't worry about the pretty part.

Then toss gently place your bacon and 

shredded cheese in the crust.

Beat your eggs, milk, salt and pepper together

and pour it into the crust.

Pop it in the oven and in about 30 minutes you'll

be enjoying a yummy meal with your family.

It's that easy!

Here's the handy dandy printable recipe.
I hope you'll give it a try.

Blessings!

Cheesy Bacon Quiche
(printable recipe)

Pastry for 9 inch pie

5-6 stripes of bacon, cooked and crumbled/chopped

1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground black pepper

4 large eggs, beaten

1½ cup  milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven, 375 degrees

2. Fit pie crust into pie plate, fold ends under and crimp.

3. Spread shredded cheese and bacon evenly in pie crust.

4. Beat salt, pepper, eggs and milk until well blended,

5. Pour over cheese and bacon in pie plate.

Bake 30-40 minutes or until set. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

yield: 6 servings

Maria Matter @ http://asimplefive.blogspot.com/

If you like this recipe,
be sure to check out my
Sausage Cheddar Quiche
it's a bit more spicy!

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Springtime Centerpiece - Chicken Wire Flower Cage

Spring has sprung!

So I thought it appropriate to dust the 

cobwebs from my blog and say HELLO!

This past winter season was a busy one
in our home, more on that later but I
wanted to share my first spring project
with you.


A Chicken Wire Flower Cage

centerpiece using  recycled bottles

My original idea was to place

single stem flowers in plain 

clear bottles spaced across my

table. Cute idea, right?

Turns out it was not very practical 

once I needed to move them every

evening for meal time. So hubby 

made me this sweet chicken wire cage!

So simple but I'm lovin' it!

general materials used:
soda/beer bottles, labels removed.
flower bouquet (Walmart $3.00),
 snipped to separate stems.
scrap wood.
chicken wire.

*side note...we have a very long
farm table (nine foot long) so I
needed at least seven bottles to
make the piece look right. If you
have a normal size dining room table,
and you wanted to make a similar
centerpiece you could probably get
away with using only 3 to 5 bottles.

Sweet & Simple

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Peeling Farm Fresh Eggs

Having backyard chickens has been such a blessing, I highly recommend it for everyone, if zoning laws permit!

I was recently talking with some other "farm wives" about the joy of having an unending supply of fresh eggs on hand, but they were telling me how they had to BUY eggs at the grocery store for their hard-boiled egg dishes because fresh eggs can't be peeled.  eek! say it isn't so!!

We've always hard-boiled & peeled our fresh eggs, and you CAN too! 

here's how~

steam them!  

Place your fresh eggs in a steam basket/colander over boiling water. (not letting the boiling water touch them!) Let them steam for 20 minutes. 

Remove steamer from heat and immerse in icy cold water to stop the cooking process, about 2 minutes.  Remove from water.

DO NOT let them soak in the water.

Now gently tap the egg to start a crack and the shell should quite literally slide off your hard boiled egg!

Perfection!

Time to make some deviled eggs!

Do you have chickens in your backyard?

Have you ever considered it?

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The Chicken Coop is now open!

We've added six little ladies to our family. 

out from the heat lamp and into the sunlight

They've reached their six week milestone and 

are moving into their newly built chicken coop. 

Can you see the excitement in their eyes?  

When their little chicken feet first touched the 

grass, they froze like statues. They weren't sure

how to walk in it. too funny!

marching one by one to their new home

The kids gently marched them to their new home.

We have raised chickens off & on throughout 

our married life, mostly the Araucana chickens 

that lay the blue eggs. However, after a harrowing

dog experience we took a break. 

Now since building the new reinforced coop, I'm 

hoping this flock survives and supplies us with 

lovely fresh eggs over the next few years! 

Have you ever raised chickens?

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