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What’s Eatin’?
We have another short week on our hands. We just got back from looking for housing in the Atlanta area.
I love being married – because I can ask my husband what he wants to eat. How this helps me: he’ll be getting food he loves and he gives me ideas when I’m in a rut!
Wednesday: Bolognese Pasta and the great thing about this is it is in the freezer. I can just pull the sauce out and warm it up. We have another showing on our house and everything has to be spotless at all times!
Thursday: Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken and a Coconut Cream Pie from Sara Foster in NC.
Friday: Paula Deen’s Italian Chicken Casserole
Saturday: Brinner before a photo shoot of a sweet family in town. I love French Toast and rarely make it so I’ll be making it this week and serving it with some fruit! Our little will love it too. May not try him with syrup yet because it is so messy – but he will love the sweetness of it as well.
Sunday: Fajitas for our church’s mission fundraiser. I here there are 75 lbs of skirt steak marinating.
Eat This: Italian Sweet Pepper Quiche
In Wake Forest, North Carolina, a place I called home for 3.5 years in my twenties, sits a well-known favorite of the Olde English Tea Room. As you walk in the door, you are greeted with the fragrance of enough tea to make any tea-lover happy.
They had delicious cakes that friends of mine baked in the wee hours of the morning and the slower hours of the afternoon. Delicious chicken salad and a chicken and rice soup that I ate almost exclusively. And they had quiches.
I never tried theirs because I didn’t know what I was missing. I didn’t start eating quiche until a few years ago. Maybe its because I thought it wasn’t filling or was too dainty of food – I mean, I love macaroni and cheese and a good steak or burger. But, now I know better.
I created this quiche because of the presence of these sweet little peppers that were on sale at my grocery store. Oh goodness. Their sweetness, after cooking just a bit in some olive oil, tasted divine and simple in the pool of eggs and cream and cheese that they baked in. I went the simple route and used a store bought pie dough for the crust – but do what your heart – and your counter space limitation – tell you to do. Maybe you have a pie crust recipe from your grandmother that you use all that time – then by all means use it.
Italian Sweet Pepper Quiche
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Eggs
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Serves: 6
Deliciously rich and sweet quiche perfect for any time of the day
Ingredients
- 1 unbaked pie crust
- 1 cup shredded Italian cheese (I use a 5 cheese blend)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 6 eggs (I use all natural Great Day Farm eggs)
- 7 sweet mini peppers, chopped, seeded
- olive oil
- 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bake the pie crust for about 15 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes.
- Chop the peppers and sauté until just soft in evoo. Season with salt and pepper.
- In a bowl, mix the eggs, cream, spices, and half of the cheese.
- When your pie crust is cooled, layer the rest of the cheese in the bottom.
- Then top the cheese with the peppers.
- Then dump in the egg mixture. If you are using a deep dish you will be able to fit all the mixture. If you aren’t then you’ll have a little left (just scramble it up in a pan and have a breakfast 1 and 2).
- Bake on a baking sheet for about 45 minutes or until no longer jiggly in the center of the quiche.
- Serve with a simple green salad or some fruit and a muffin.
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What’s Eatin?
I am finally learning to be creative in what I cook. So, while I still love recipes – I am having fun playing with them and learning to add my own touches here and there. This week is full of those. Can’t wait to have people around our table this week.
Monday: Brinner. Eggs, grits, bacon, and lemon poppy seed cake with blueberry glaze (recipe to come).
Tuesday: Pulled out a cookbook by one of my favorite chefs – Tyler Florence – and am cooking from his Dinner at My Place book this week. Penne with Spicy Italian Sausage is going down.
Wednesday: A sweet pepper quiche with those lovely little peppers that were on sale this week at Kroger.
Thursday: We are having a date night with a gift card and to see a movie! Yay!!!!!
Friday: Stir fry chicken with some great delicious rice. Rice is cheap and easy!
Saturday: We are cooking together with a family who are friends of ours. We are doing taco night on a Saturday. I’m making Tyler’s Mexican beef tacos. And you know there will be guacamole if I have anything to do with it!
Sunday: Leftovers. I love not having to cook for Sunday lunch. And I am going to be making some brown sugar sandwich cookies with spiced cream cheese filling. So yummily!
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