Friday Friend Recipe #162 --Cheesy Bacon Quiche

My Friday Friend Cookbook Countdown #162!

(#willreallyfinishthissomeday)

Barb's Cheesy Bacon Quiche

and you know all the whys and wherefores of this countdown, right? Homemade cookbook, friends contributed, Handyman said I couldn't/wouldn't do it, I'll show him, yadda yadda yadda....

...and the rest is cookbook history!

This is one of my favorite quiches.  It's easy and delicious --a great recipe to make when you have company or a brunch.

Cheesy Bacon Quiche

Barbara Brown

Buckeye, AZ

1 1/4 cup Bisquick

1/4 cup softened butter

2 T. Boiling water

1 cup shredded Swiss cheese

1 pkg (6oz) sliced Canadian Bacon (chopped)

4 green onions, sliced

1 1/2 cups half & half

3 eggs

1/2 t. salt

1/4 t. ground red pepper (cayenne)

Heat oven to 400F.  Grease 9" pie plate.  Blend Bisquick and butter. Add water, stir till soft dough forms.  Press on bottom and up sides of pan, forming an edge on rim of pie plate.

Sprinkle cheese, bacon and onion over crust.  Beat half & half, eggs, salt and pepper. Pour into crust.

Bake 35-40 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

If you recall--we last left off with the first part of our Football league story, in Barb's story....

See the first part here. 

it ended with this:

a strange 'ransom-ish' note we think was sent from Barb's son Mike. 

(who by the way, when  recently shown a photo of this old ransom-ish note said, "whoever sent that is a creative genius!  He did not confess!)

Let me just interrupt for a moment and say if you don't know what this is all about, you

MUST CLICK HERE to read part 1.

Or else it will make no sense.

And I can't believe I saved all this stuff!!

2nd season of the BDDRML league gave us this....

Letters like this started arriving in our mail box, addressed to our 15 year old son one week, to either the Handyman or me the next.  CC'd to everybody else in the league and addressed to the commissioner!

This one below was to our son Luke.....

It said:

Which prompted Barb to send a fax to the Handyman

(they both managed JCPenney stores at the time)

Which prompted the Handyman to contact his attorney Simon Schmuck, who countered with his own letter representing the Rottons, sent to the BDDRML league.

And this---THIS is how we spent our leisure time with our friends the Browns!

part 3 coming soon.

******

The creative genius!

The creative genius is also camera shy and this is the best I can do---this photo from 1999 with his family.

Mike, our good friend and cookbook publisher/original typist, Barb, Doug and Kim.

I will work on the photo dilemma soon.

And to close -- I just wanted everyone to see that Doug sent an envelope addressed to me THE SIREN!

(???)

This is recipe #162

132 left to go!

PS  oh...this is a cookbook countdown!  Not a football league recap.  sorry!  The quiche is really good. Give it a try!

Friday Friend Recipe #71 Family Occasion Quiche

Friday Friend Recipe #71: Family Occasion Quiche

Making my way thru my Friday Friend Cookbook, one recipe at a time.

What is the Friday Friend cookbook: I have about 50 of my closest friends and family on an e-mail forum which I called the Friday Friends (from all over the county). At first, most of them didn't know each other, (they knew me) but over the past 15 years, we've answered and shared silly--and serious---questions, exchanged Secret Santa Christmas gifts, had a dieting contest in which we paid a $1 a week and that money went to a scholarship fund for a Friday Friends son's memorial scholarship, and we went on a great vacation for my 52 birthday.

AND, we contributed recipes for a cookbook.

I was looking at the cookbook the other night and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog."
The Handyman--who knows me better than I know myself (this happened to be a question on the Friday Friend forum once---does your spouse/partner know you better than you know yourself?)--said, "you'll never, EVER do that."
WELL---maybe I'll show him! Maybe I will.

Which brings me to this... recipe #71

Theda's

Family Occasion Quiche

When I make a dish for the countdown, I don't just do it for the countdown, I am usually having people over at the same time.

Sometimes---okay, most times----it's very difficult to entertain AND take pictures for a blog post.

And that is why my pictures are not the greatest.  They are not 'staged'.  They are set down in front of company and I whip out my camera and say "excuse me, I just need  little photo of this."

Most of my friends are used to this by now, but  once in a while, I will come across a friend---usually a husband of a friend, who  doesn't understand what I'm doing and  he will get a look of weird confusion on his face, as I am photographing the meatloaf, or quiche in this instance.

The reason I am pointing this out is because of the color design in the photos.  My red checked table cloth and my green and yellow polka-dot plate.

Great combination!

Oh...and burnt bacon.  If I staged, I would never have burnt bacon in the photo.

It actually wasn't really as burnt as it looks---it was a sweet bacon with a sprinkling of brown sugar on it, but it did get very, very brown.

Pretend you don't see it and just look at the quiche instead.

MMMMMMmmmm!

The reason I had people over for this was---that I had a BONUS book club.  I wanted to read and discuss "Station Eleven", and it wasn't my turn in ANY of my book clubs.

So, I invited them all to read this book and then to brunch.

I will post about that soon.

I served this delicious quiche from my friend Theda!

Are people snobby when it comes to quiche? Well if so, you can certainly be snobby about this one, because it's SO GOOD.

Everybody said so.  Even the Handyman, who gets the leftovers.



Family Occasion Quiche

FF Theda  Pansevisius

Tualatin, OR

crust:  1 cup flour

1 cube softened butter ( 1 stick, 1/2 cup)

1 softened 3 oz pkg cream cheese

Mix together and press into pie pan

quiche:  8oz grated jack cheese

8oz grated swiss cheese

8 slices bacon (crisped and crumbled)

1 bunch of sliced green onions

3/4 cup sour cream

2 eggs slightly beaten

Mix together and spoon evenly into crust.  Baked until completely brown on top, at 375F for about  30-35 minutes.

**you can add any of the following:

crab

shrimp

ham

cooked broccoli

aspargus

(why didn't I pull the plastic wrap off the brown sugar?)

(I told you---it's more about the friends than the food/blog/photos, right?)

And now, you get to meet Theda! Again!

This will be her 11th entry in the Friday Friend Cookbook (see all her recipes here), atho we haven't seen her since June 10th.

I wonder what she has been doing?

Oh...maybe camping?

At the coast?*

*on the west coast we say we are going to the beach or the coast.  We don't say shore.

My friend in PA always says shore....they went to the shore.

I love regional differences.

Here is something I envy. ENVY.

Theda and John have gone camping with the same group of friends on the same weekend in August for well over 25 years.

They are now on the 3rd generation of campers.

The Handyman and I will do something for a few years and then for some reason, it fades away and we will reminisce about how much we liked that. Not so with Theda-- she makes that weekend happen!

I think they just have a standard reservation at their favorite campground and whoever can show up shows up.

I don't think they've missed a weekend in the past 25 years.

Here are a few pics of  a different camping trip---  a trip to the coast.

The Oregon coast.

The best coast in my humble opinion.

I don't know what she's making there in her trailer --- it could be this quiche!

Does it look like it?

It was a great quiche!

FF Appendix #2 -- Caramelized Onion Quiche

Making my way thru my Friday Friend Cookbook, one recipe at a time.

Oh, wait...

this isn't in the Friday Friend Cookbook.

But it should be.

So---I am starting an appendix (this is recipe #2):

supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually 

of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.

I decided to make this while we were on vacation last month.

It might seem weird to be cooking on vacation, but I like to cook while we are at our cabin --there is not stress, no rushing, no deadlines to meet -- and also I'd been wanting to try this for quite sometime.

I'm glad that I did.

It's times like this I wish I were a better descriptive writer---that words would come easily for me-- because I hate to just say  that this was really good.  

There should be a better way to say it.

Genuinely excellent?

Certainly marvelous? 

Indeedly wonderful?

It was all these things.

I had no doubt, as Debbie is a very good cook.

One Tuesday morning I 'borrowed' her handwritten cookbook --where she keeps her best recipes-- to copy a few down, and I used the copy machine at work and copied them all.

I know every one of them will be great!

Caramelized Onion &  Bacon Quiche

from FF Debbie Engstrom

Prepare  Pat-in-Pan Pie Dough -- set aside.

Saute 6oz bacon, chopped.  ( used sausage )

Remove and drain. 

Add 3 c. thinly sliced onion, stir until caramelized--8min.

Add 8oz thinly sliced mushrooms,  2 tsp fresh thyme, 1 tsp minced garlic, season with salt.

Cook 8-10 minutes, allow to cool before putting into the pan.

In medium bowl, combine, 1/2 cup heavy cream and 5 large eggs.

Pour over onion mixture.  

Sprinkle with 4oz grated swiss cheese.

Bake 375F for 35-40 minutes.

As you know,  I have coffee every Tuesday morning at  6am with Debbie E. (we've done this for years and years and years)

But  we don't  see each other socially very often.  As often as we'd like anyway.

Last night at a Pampered Chef party that I was at---in she walked.

It was a fun surprise.  

This is one thing which I admire about her---she never, EVER gets stressed when cooking and/or having people over for dinner.

I mean NEVER.

AND--she can invite people at a moment's notice.

( I cannot do that.  I have to have everything planned )

Click here for all her FF (and appendix) recipes.

She is the mother of 4 children.

Including twin girls.