When Mr. B and I got married I knew I wanted to improve my cooking skills (if you can call the spaghetti recipe and country style ribs recipe skilled cooking). Mr. B had a vested interest in this goal as well.
The apartment complex we lived in brought in a cooking instructor and scheduled classes in our apartment club house. I can’t remember her name but her cooking school was called Bon Ton. A friend who speaks French said she thinks this might mean “good food”. I’d love to know—any French speaking readers out there? Let me know.
And despite the 1982 book authored by Bruce Feirstein, “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche” Mr. B loves this recipe. I use a frozen pie crust, Marie Callendar and it is very flaky and delicious and EASY!
Basic Cheese/Bacon Quiche
Eggs (Bon Ton Cooking School)
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Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Pinch of nutmeg & pepper
- 1 cup cheddar, grated (or cheese of choice)
- 5 slices of bacon, cooked crisp, crumbled (more if you love bacon)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 9” pie crust (I used Marie Callendar’s frozen pre-made crust)
Preparation Instructions
Pierce pie crust and add pie weights or dried beans (to keep crust from puffing up). Bake at 375° for 10 minutes. Cool slightly; add other ingredients, dot with butter and bake at 375° for 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
Lyn Bunch said:
Yes, real men do eat quiche. Great out of the oven, and even better as left overs. Extra bacon in mine next time, my LRHG!
Sweetie
Karen said:
Thanks Sweetie…my readers needed to hear it from Hubby! 🙂
Karen
Alison said:
YES! I have wanted to try making a quiche. One of these crazy Fall days. Thank you for sharing. Saving this one in the keep forever folder. Have a great wknd trip!
Karen said:
Hooray! This recipe isn’t low fat, but I do believe you could tweak it and use 1/2 cream and 1/2 half ‘n half. I’ve never tried it with low fat milk and don’t think it would be very good using low fat milk—I have found that the length of time in the oven can vary a bit but just cook it until a knife stuck in the center comes out clean.
Thanks for stopping by!
Karen
Brian said:
Heh, the point of the book was that it’s cool to eat Quiche, you just cannot CALL it Quiche :). Just like we cannot eat ratatooille, but we can eat sliced potatos with cheese just fine 🙂 It’s about avoiding the trendy names and modern metrosexuality and being yourself, your own trendsetter.
I make a darned fine egg-pie, myself. and enjoy it immensely.
Karen said:
LOL. Hey, calling it egg-pie is a great idea…after all, this is America, not France. Fortunately for me my hubby likes my quiche a lot. I think you nailed it, just eat what tastes good and don’t sweat the name or it’s implication! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by for a chat.
Karen