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[rivka]

Please share with me your favorite vegetarian quiche recipes. I've never actually made a quiche before, but it's just a big ol' omelet in a piecrust, right?

Also, does this sound like enough food for a brunch party? Quiche, tossed green salad, fruit salad, zucchini bread, cake, coffee/tea/punch?

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

By "vegetarian quiche", you are meaning lacto-ovo, right? 'Cause I don't know any vegan recipes.

Actually, I don't know any recipes for quiche. It's one of those things, like "stew", or what my father calles "bottom two-shelf-of-the-fridge soup", which I just sort of make.

Ingredients:

1 pie crust.
Some eggs.
A bunch of whatever cheese I've got a lot of and am trying to get rid of -- usually a mix of cheddar, Swiss cheeses of various sorts, Romano, stuff like that. Try to get some stuff that melts well in there, if possible.
Other stuff.

Cook the other stuff. If it's frozen veggies, defrost it. Drain off all the excess water in the other stuff you've cooked. (Yeah, I don't want to tell you how many years I'd occasionally make a watery quiche that just didn't hold together and I didn't know WHY, until I finally figured that one out.)

Grate the cheese into grated cheese. Beat a bunch of eggs. Stir the cheese into the eggs. This probably doesn't do anything, but it makes me feel good.

Put the other stuff into the pie crust. Pour the eggs and cheese over it.

Bake at some temperature for, um, time. Three fifty for, um, an hour? Forty five minutes? I dunno.

The other stuff usually includes sauteed onions, 'cause I like them, and frozen broccoli, because we tend to have a lot of it in the freezer for no good reason. I think I keep buying it at Costco and forgetting that I already have some.

[brooksmoses]

Ah, right -- my description of my recipe did forget to mention grating the cheese. You can also cut it into small cubes, but grating certainly helps it melt better.

xiphias, I find it interesting that your recipe doesn't include any cream or milk -- the quiches that I think of as definitively quiche-like seem to have quite a lot of it. But I wonder if I'm just being unusual there, since a lot of the recipes posted here don't have any....

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that's right -- I sometimes put milk and/or cream with the eggs and cheese, too.

Except when I don't.