Day Sixty-four--Bacon Spinach Quiche

Wahoo. I'm posting dinner right after dinner. I know, novel idea. Tonight's dinner was a home-run. It was supposed to be a fritatta, but my cousin-in-law(there is such a thing, right) posted on facebook yesterday that she made this quiche and her family enjoyed it. I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did.


Bacon spinach quiche

I had to make a pie crust. Actually, I have one crust in my refrigerator still that I need to figure out what to do with it. I'm thinking Shoo-fly pie. We'll see if I'm being overly ambitious. Anyway, back to dinner. I rolled out one of the crusts and put it into my pie plate. That got set to the side while I got everything else ready. Four slices of pepper bacon, fried and cut up. Four eggs. Some milk and shredded cheese. Some chopped onion and spinach. All of those things got mixed together into a bowl and then put into the pie crust. I did run in to one problem. That problem was the fact that my pie plate was apparently not big enough. The egg mixture spilled out over the top a bit. No problem. I just pushed a cookie sheet in onto the bottom rack of my oven and it caught everything that spilled out of the pie plate. I did sprinkle a little bit more shredded cheddar on top and then carefully put the quiche in the oven. It baked for 40 minutes and then was done.

This meal was so delicious. It was everything in one plate. Protein, veggies, carbs...all in one plate. It can't get much easier than that. Aidan didn't really like it. I think it was because of the onions and spinach and the fact that it was something new that we've never had. I think a couple more times and he'll eat it. He did tell me that he wasn't that hungry.

So, thanks Emily for posting your meal last night. We enjoyed it tonight!

Day Thirty-four-- Chana Masala

We had dinner later last night that we usually do. Chalk it up to poor planning and brown rice. Connor had his karate class so while he and Tim were at karate, I ran down and used our treadmill for 30 minutes. By the time I came upstairs I only had 15 minutes before they got home. I immediately put on the brown rice because it takes so long to cook. The chana masala came together pretty quickly.

Chana Masala

This was a request from Tim. He loves this stuff. I have to admit it is pretty tasty. Plus, it used up pretty much the rest of the spinach that I had so we didn't waste it. My only problem was that the brown rice took FOREVER to cook. It worked out in the end though because Connor came home with a pretty low blood sugar from karate and we had to treat that before he could eat. Somehow, it all came together and we were eating by 8.

I love this recipe. It's really easy to make and it has so much flavor to it. I cut back on the red pepper flakes these days because of Aidan. He actually ate a bowl full of it and said he liked it.

Well, I was up at 5:40 this morning (probably because I was asleep at 8:30 last night) and now that I have this post done I am going to treat Patchy to a nice morning river front walk. I'm looking forward to tonight's dinner. I'm making something new and I hope it turns out. Until tonight (or tomorrow morning), Happy cooking!

Day Twenty-seven--Spanakopita

Hello all. I'm posting the day after again. Sorry. Last nights dinner was delish. I made an old favorite of ours. I made it basically because I had phyllo dough in the freezer, I had eggs and onions and garlic. All I had to buy for this dish was spinach (in season) and some ricotta cheese. I am going to use the rest of the ricotta for something else this week.

Spanakopita

This is an easy meal. I whipped it up while Connor was at karate. Basically, you saute some onions and garlic in some olive oil. Once they are soft, you add a ton of spinach and let it wilt down. While the spinach is wilting, you mix together a couple of eggs, ricotta and feta. I had some feta left over from last week. When the spinach is done wilting you add that mixture to the cheese mixture. Then comes the fun part, at least for Aidan. You layer a few layers of phyllo dough, brushing each layer with olive oil. This was Aidan's job and he did it fabulously. Then you pour the cheese/spinach mixture into the layers of dough and repeat a few layers on top. Throw it in the oven for 30 minutes and you have yourself a pretty tasty and light dinner. It made five servings and Connor was quick to claim the fifth piece for his lunch for today. He even packaged it up and put it away himself. Three out of four of us liked this. Aidan liked the crust and he picked at the cheese mixture, but it had too much spinach for his liking. He did eat some of it though, so I'm happy.