Day Fourteen: Quiche? Nooottt Quite

So, I was so excited to go grocery shopping I forgot to add pie crust to the list. Do you know what that means?

It means Plan B. Improvisation. Flying by the seat of our proverbial britches.

In other words, I faked it.

I whipped up a little bit of biscuit dough. Sort of. My grandma's "easy way" biscuits are made with nothing more than self rising flour and heavy cream. Well, I don't have heavy cream, just almond milk, so I used that instead.

You'll have to forgive me. I did not get measurements. Basically, I mixed flour and almond milk together until I had something that looked like biscuit dough. I would guess It was something like 1/3 cup of flour and 3 or 4 tablespoons of milk. It, as usual when I'm baking in the EBO, made twice as much as I needed.

I pressed the dough into the pan and baked it for 10 minutes. It wasn't brown, just "blind baked" enough to keep it from getting soggy when I put the filling in.

Of course, as you might guess, the self rising flour, um, rose, so when the crust came out of the oven, I sort of smooshed down the middle to make space for the filling.



Then, I laid in 3 or 4 nickel sized pieces of smoked mozarella (on sale! yay!), broke apart a couple slices of mushroom on top of the cheese, and shredded up a couple of fresh spinach leaves and threw those on there, as well. Then, I beat together 1 egg and about a tablespoon of almond milk, and poured about 3/4 of that mixture on top of the filling.



It baked for 35 minutes. When it came out, the edges were browned, the cheese was melty, and the egg was cooked through and fluffy. The spinach and mushrooms were present, but I think the flavour of the cheese was pretty assertive, so they really didn't do much more than sit there and look pretty. And made sure I got some vegetables. They did seem to pretty much cook through all the way, though.




I would like to try this again with actual pie crust, but yanno what? I was soooo freakin' hungry that the more substantial biscuit crust was actually just perfect for tonight.

And now, I'm going to finish watching The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood and ponder the meaning of life.

Ok. Maybe just the first part. ;)

G'night ya'll.