Self-Crusting Quiche

I don't remember what I was searching for when I found this recipe idea, but I'm sure glad I found it!  I guess self-crusting quiche is a New Zealand thing (or so the recipes I found seemed to indicate.  It's basically an egg-bake-type-thing with lots of good stuff in it and no time-consuming crust. ;)  Amos and I make this about once a week.  We cook it in a glass pie dish, cut it into sixths, and wahh-laaah! we have breakfast for three days. :)  It stores well in the fridge and heats up nicely in the microwave.

Self-Crusting Quiche 

3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 cup grated cheese
Various spices, salt, and pepper
1/2 cup Bisquik or other generic baking mix
1/2-1 1/2 cups vegetables and other add-ins
Additional cheese for the top, if you like a lot of cheese 

Mix everything together well in any order in a medium-large mixing bowl.
Pour into greased pie pan or 8x8 baking dish.
Cook 30-35 minutes at 385 degrees or until set.

I've changed this recipe every time I've made it!  Some of my ideas are listed below, with an asterisk next to our favorites.

Adaptations
*3/4 cup mixture of plain yogurt and milk in any proportions
*Addition of 1/8 cup wheat germ (you don't taste it, it's just good for you)
Addition of 1/8 cup protein powder (whey protein)
Pan-fried potatoes added to the pan before pouring in the egg mixture

Add-ins that we've liked
Munster cheese
*Pepper jack cheese
Cilantro
Basil
*Raw onions
*Raw bell peppers
*Salami
Turkey lunch meat
*Fresh corn from boiled corn on the cob
Cooked asparagus
Cooked spinach

Spices
*Garlic powder
Sage
*Cayenne pepper
Cumin

Plethora

My poor little blog seems to be forgotten quite regularly.  Oh dear.

Here's an interesting article by Al Mohler about the changing religious demographics of the United States.

Recent cooking adventures?  Oatmeal spice cake with honey-cream cheese frosting, pulled pork in the crock pot, and soon, hopefully, chicken spaghetti from Pioneer Woman (minus the overly-processed cream of whatever soups)!

I finished Atheism Remix by Al Mohler on Sunday, and am still in the middle of Mark Twain's European adventure, A Tramp Abroad.  I'm also reading The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller.  This book is very interesting, but I don't agree with a lot of what she says.  However, Miller does exhibit some good insight:

"The sort of experience that makes for a good story is seldom a comfy one. 
'Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called a hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.  Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it...This is surely the oldest form of the many tasks that stories are called upon to perform." pg. 57

"[Lewis] firmly believe that sometimes war was necessary.  Religion explains the why -- sometimes we must be willing to sacrifice ourselves for a greater good -- but stories show us how.  Stories are what make heroes.  You can only become a hero by participating in a story, and stories bestow meaning on what might otherwise look like raw suffereing and waste." pg. 59

I've had two interviews in the last two days for three different positions, but I didn't get the first and if offered the second or third, I will decline them.  There are some things that specific students need that I am just not willing to help with.  I worked two days last week and am working five days this week, and with all the busyness of work and home and church and projects and cleaning and running errands and needing to fix the car, I can't help thinking that maybe I shouldn't try for a full-time job. :P  We shall see...

Quick trip

It's Wednesday!  It doesn't seem like Wednesday, but maybe that's because my Monday and Tuesday were taken up by flights and family visits.  I flew to NorCal on Monday morning (way too early) and flew back on Tuesday afternoon.  My mom had a coupon for a facial treatment that wouldn't work for her, so she gave it to me.  Even though I'm twenty-six, I still have acne that I'm trying to get rid of. :P

Here are some stories from the weekend...

Me: "Garret, do you want a cookie?  Amos made them.  They're peanut butter oatmeal with white and regular chocolate chips."
Garret: "No, I'm on a diet."
--I walk over with the open cookie bag--
Me: "Are you sure?  They're really good."
--Garret eyes the cookies--
Garret, wistfully: "Are they soft?"
Me: "Yep."
Garret: "Okay."


Me: "I wonder if Ethan and Andrew will be color blind." [Ross is color blind.]
Ross: "Audra is worried about losing her sense of smell."
--Ross tells us a story about Audra's dad and his nearly-nonexistent sense of smell--
*A minute later*
Ross: "Audra is worried about losing her sense of smell."
Me: "Are you worried about losing your sense of remembrance?!  You just told us that!"


Luke: "Gio might have a Matchbox car that's worth three dollars!"
Ross: "Bring me the car; let me see the price book."
--Takes the car, looks in the book--
Ross: "Yeah, this is the right one.  I think the car has some syrup on it, though.  You take it to the Antiques Roadshow, and they taste it, 'Mmmmmm, maple!'"


Scott told me about his police pursuit and how he couldn't get this seatbelt on because the road was so bumpy that the belt kept locking in his hand!  He ate three of Amos' cookies.


Mom: "Alistair Begg isn't really old, unless you think I'm really old!"
Brenda: "Mo-ther!!  You are not old!  You have at least fifty years left to go!
Mom, teasing: "I just want to live old enough to be a burden to my children."
Alexis: "What's a burgen?"


All in all, it was a very nice two days being able to see everyone. :)