Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:37 PM
Honey, I Burned the Quiche…Again
I am the scourge of all quiches.
Despite the fact that I take pride in my ability to cook a decent meal most of
the time, I have never been able to
make a quiche that didn’t suck. Never. Last night was no exception. I had the
perfect ingredients—the farmer’s market eggs, fresh asparagus, gruyere cheese.
I even had half-and-half. Had being
the operative word; once all these ingredients were in one place, bad things
happened. Last night, the piecrust cracked and leaked while it was baking. So
instead of a fluffy, pastry-ensconced quiche, I got a char-bottomed train wreck
in a pie pan. I was quiched off. Chris laughed and said, ‘It’s no big deal; let’s just
order Chinese’, which irked me even more. So, um, I slammed the quiche on the
counter, and it slid off and splattered all over the floor. I wanted to
cry…even though eating it would’ve probably been worse than scraping it up off
the tiles in my kitchen.
You would think I’d give up completely,
but making the perfect quiche has become my Mount Everest
of cooking aspirations. Does anyone else have one of these
never-fails-to-always-fail cooking fiascos? Does your DH make things better—or
worse?
More importantly, does anyone have
ideas or recipes for how to end my terrible quiche streak? I’m thinking about
attempting the Chicken,
Asparagus and Caramelized Onion, but I need some pointers on that crust.
Quiche
Recipes from the Nest’s Recipe
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Posted by
Nest Colleen
Filed under: Dinner