Mouthwatering Quiche Recipe

Today’s Mouthwatering Monday post is an easy faux fancy dish. It sounds fancy, just say it: “Quiche Lorraine”, do you hear the ooohs and aaahhhs from your friends and family? They will be impressed and they will devour it, trust me. My husband looked at my mom like she was serving him melted plastic when she served him quiche for the first time, and then he ate 3/4 of the dang thing. This recipe changes a bit every time that I make it, there are all different additions and variations you can use, but this is my favorite.

  • quiche lorraine
  • Plain pastry, 9″ shell
  • 8 bacon slices,  diced
  • ½ C chopped green onions, tops to bottoms = about 1 bunch
  • 6 eggs, beaten
  • ½ tsp onion pepper
  • ½ tsp garlic salt
  • 1 ¼ C fresh shredded swiss cheese
  • 1 C sliced mushrooms
  • 2 C light cream (half and half)
  • 3 shakes pepper, to taste
  1. Line the 9 inch pie pan with pastry, trim the edges and crimp, flute or fork the edges for a decorative presentation.
  2. Brown bacon lightly; drain off excess fat (don’t I wish I could do that with me) Add green onions and mushrooms and cook until bacon is golden brown and the onions and mushrooms have softened, slightly
  3. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
  4. Combine eggs, cheese, onion powder, garlic salt and pepper. Add light cream and blend well.
  5. Add in bacon mixture and mix thoroughly.
  6. Pour into pie shell. (use a soup ladle if necessary to get all of the filling into the shell)

Do you want to watch a video of my making it, then check out the video recipe on Blissfully Delish

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Monkey’s Up to No Good

mischievious monkey

Such a cute little face, right?  That cute face, is his biggest weapon of mass deception.

He, is a devious toddler genius.

Our latest escapade:

Monkey: “Mom, I be right back. You stay here”

This is said to me as he’s pushing a chair across the house into the foyer.

Me: “Monkey, what are you doing?”

Monkey: “Mom, I okay, you stay right there. I be right back” (did your parent radar just ping? Because mine did)

I don’t hear anything for a few minutes and then I see him slowly and with admirable stealth, creeping towards the laundry room door that leads to our garage.

Me: “Monkey?”

Sudden stillness, I can hear the wheels turning in his 2 yr old mind..”if I don’t move… she can’t see me”

Me: “Monkey, what are you doing”

He slowly turns and I see what’s cupped in his chubby little fist, it’s the key to this:
The Harley

That would be Daddy’s motorcycle, or ‘vroom vroom’ as Monkey calls it.

Me: “Monkey, what are you doing with that key”

SWOOSH! The key disappears behind his back and he starts inching towards the door.
I get out of my chair and he screams and runs towards the door, clutching that key to his chest,
“I ride Daddy’s vroom vroom!!! I big boy, I ride the motorcycle”

I got the key away from him, earned a glare from tear filled eyes, and a mournful wail as his dreams of escape were dashed to the ground.  I’m pretty sure that in the secret Toddler underground, I’m known as “worstest mom, ever”  and you know what?  I have the coozie to prove it

The lesson learned? When Monkey says “I be right back” Nothing good is going to follow and I should never turn my back on him, ever.

The Infomercial Geek Out Smooth Away Post

So, my favorite infomercial of all time: The SHAMWOW guy. Seriously, he could sell me anything and I’d buy it and believe it. He’s so dang quirky and funny and LOUD!!

Now, one of the one’s that always made me raise my eyebrow, and there are many, was the Smooth Away commercial. You know the one, where you sandpaper away your hair, the one where you see the girl on the street miraculously and easily ‘smooth away’ the hair on her arms.

smooth-away
I’m a tad naive (shut up) and often gullible (seriously, be quiet) and Nathan has laughed at me, loudly, more than once over my interest in this product. You shave, you know why it interested me.

So, when I got the e-mail from the fuel my blog people about reviewing this, I was on it faster than you can say ‘Jack Diddly Squat’

So, it came in the mail and I was all giddy and silly and ripped it open, then realized, I had shaved that day. Figures, right?
Damn Murphy.

So, I waited it out another day or two and then tried it.
{crickets chirping}
Tried it again, different spot
{crickets chirping louder}
tried AGAIN

Nothing. A bit of ashy looking skin, and a spot that was kind of smoother, but not really.
Cue major disappointment.

I was not about to try it on my arms because HI, I’ve seen what happens when I shaved my legs and I’ve seen friends who’ve shaved their arms and umm… no. Thanks, but no.  I’m not talking underarms, I’m talking top of the arms here. just to clarify

So, Nathan came home, he tried it on his arm (he’s not super hairy, but he has dark, dark hair) nothing. He tried again, clockwise, counterclockwise, we looked like total tools studying these instructions, but nothing.

I hate to write negative reviews, but I pride honesty above all else, so.

In my opinion… The Smooth Away System, it’s a big Fail Whale.
At least for me, who knows if it worked for someone else…

*so lesson learned to all pitchers, don’t pitch me, unless you aren’t afraid of honesty

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