Jacque--I made this today, and I'm in heaven!! Every single ingredient is "legal", but it just tastes so decadent! You're gonna' love it!
Hearty Breakfast Quiche (From CAD recipe book)
1 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup cheddar cheese, grated
2 cups sliced mushrooms (I diced mine)
1 cup diced cauliflower
dash dried basil
paprika to taste
ground black pepper to taste
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup chopped leftover steak or chicken (optional)
1/2 pkg. chopped frozen spinach, thawed, liquid squeezed out
Preheat oven to 325. Oil bottom and sides of glass of 9" ceramic or glass pie plate or 9" square baking dish.
In a medium saucepan, heat cream until hot, but do not let it boil. Remove from heat and quickly stir in grated cheese. When cheese is melted, add mushrooms, cauliflower, basil, paprika, and pepper. Cool for 5 minutes. Add one beaten egg at a time, meat or chicken, and spinach. Mix well after each addition.
Pour mixture into oiled pan and bake until custard is set, about 45 to 50 minutes. Makes 3-4 svgs.
** This is what I did--(I can never follow a recipe as written--the rebel in me, I guess).. Left out the cauliflower--didn't have any. Increased the amt. of spinach, diced mushrooms. I used the spray olive oil, and it worked great. Didn't stick at all. I increased the eggs to 3--they were a bit small, and I'm trying to "up" my protein each day. It worked just fine. This is so unbelieveably good!!! After months of plain boiled eggs, plain tuna, etc.--to have a real breakfast was just great. I can see that the cream might cause a bit of a problem for some people (maybe?) if they also use cream in coffee (which I don't), and cheese will stall some folks, but there really isn't very much of either if you consider that you will be spreading the entire recipe over 4 days. I went ahead and cut mine into 4 equal sections, and put in refrigerator dishes. Would be great for a working person, who could heat it up at work in the micro. Hope you will like this as much as I do. It was worth the price of the book, to me...
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