Question of the day

[jjhunter]

What would you recommend putting in a quarantine quiche?

Alternatively: [assuming you had sufficient eggs,] what ingredients do you currently have in your home that you think would make a good combination for quiche?

Comments

[libitina]

I believe that almost anything can go in quiche.

Which 5 things in your house will go bad first? Then I can try to suggest a good way to combine three of them.

[jjhunter]

Additional context: I am currently blessed with a wondrous excess of eggs, and I just got a food delivery direct from my CSA farm a day early. I'd added an impulse buy of a little pint of heavy cream in addition to the usual box o' fresh veggies.

Hm...maybe wacky mushrooms, collards, cilantro, some kind of cheese, eggs???

I am really curious what kinds of combinations other people might do with what they currently have available, though - quiche seems like a really good option for quarantine cooking if (major if) one has eggs on hand.

Homemade pizza would also be great assuming one keeps dry yeast about - making the dough is a lot easier than you might think!

[jjhunter]

We've been keeping (mostly) on top of what's in our fridge and just got another farm food delivery today. I included a pint of heavy cream in the order as a bit of an impulse buy, which is part of what prompted my thoughts of quiche. Stulti just made pie and there's extra pie dough leftover, which is my other prompt-to-quiche. :D

Need to use up ASAP cilantro; I have just-picked-today fresh collards & spinach & spring mix; wacky mushrooms I was planning to use for soup, but there are more of them than I was expecting; shallots (!); watermelon radish; turnip; glorious carrots; 5 lbs of cortland apples; half a bag of snow peas (still good for another 1-2 weeks; we've been eating them raw); uncooked beets still in their skin that will store well for an extended period; lemons; cheddar and valias cheese; parsley that's good for at least one more week; and a well-stocked pantry with things like canned beans of various kinds.

Thanks!

[princessofgeeks]

bacon, spinach and carmelized onions. Spinach could be fresh or frozen.

ham onions and grated cheese

cheese artichoke hearts and parmesan

basil pesto

[jjhunter]

POTATOES! I totally forgot we still had a few potatoes to use up!

And we have have half a thing of homemade pesto to use up to!!! Potato + pesto + cheese + probably collards (or maybe some of that spinach??) it is.

Thank you. :o)

[libitina]

I see you have settled on a plan. If you have so many eggs you make a second quiche:

I would cook some mushrooms and shallots together to get the liquid out before putting them in the quiche with cheese and maybe a green option (herbs or greens).

Side note: this is my usual recipe for turnips https://www.davidlebovitz.com/pickled-turnips-turnip-recipe/

[jjhunter]

Oooo, thank you for the recommendations! I really appreciate it. :D

[azurelunatic]

We have canned mushrooms, snap peas, and onions. I would combine that with cheddar. Peas go in last to preserve the flavor and cronch.

[nezchan]

I've got a tin of artichoke hearts that would go brilliant in it.

[zeborah]

My quiche go-to is usually spinach (or silverbeet aka chard), onions, and then whatever I have of tomatoes, mushrooms, and red capsicum. If pushed though any cookable-green should work: cabbage, bok choy, broccoli, etc.

For pizza tonight I put on onion, sausage slices (in lieu of ham or salami...), tomato, silverbeet, cheese, seasoned with fennel seeds and thyme. (The tomato, silverbeet, fennel and thyme are from my garden. I have a jar full of about 2cups of fennel seeds so expect to be using them a lot....)

[jjhunter]

That sounds amazing, both for quiche and for spinach!

For mine, this time I ended up using up a lot of odds and ends - the heavy cream I splurged on getting from our farm delivery this week, the unusual mushrooms + awesome shallots from the same, a fancy cheese that had been languishing in the far back of our cheese drawer, eggs, and what proved to be an insufficient quantity of spinach. (Definitely better than no spinach, but we could easily have tripled it!)