Crustless Mini Quiche Recipe

Here's the recipe for the mini quiches I made yesterday.  

The lack of crust makes them easy to make in less time.  Make a batch for freezing and re-heat for quick, hot, breakfast bites. The individual portions are great for portion control too.  Enjoy!

What you need:

2 whole eggs

• 3 egg whites

  3/4 cups organic 1% milk

  1/2 cup skim milk

  1-1/2 cups asaparagus, finely chopped

  1 cup chopped onions

  1/4 cup leeks

  3/4 cup grated gruyere cheese (or your preferred cheese)
  
  
  Make It:
  
  
  PREPARE asparagus filling. Sautee chopped asaparagus, onion 
  and leeks in lightly oiled pan until asparagus is slightly soft and 
  tender.  Let cool and set aside.
  
  

  PREHEAT oven to 375°F. Beat eggs and milk with wire whisk 
  until well blended. Stir in cooled filling and cheese until well 
  blended.

  LIGHTLY spray muffin pans with cooking spray.  Put a pinch of 
  grated cheese in the bottom of each muffin cup. This serves as a shell 
  for the mixture.

  POUR mixture into muffin pans.

  BAKE 30 minutes or until center is set and crust is lightly browned. 
  Let stand 10 minutes before cutting to serve.

  GARNISH with tarragon (optional), or your favorite herb.

  Did you made this?  Share your photos, I'd love to see it.

Crustless Vegan Mini Quiche

Crustless Vegan Mini Quiche. 

Roasted asparagus and onion with gruyere cheese and tarragon garnish. I put my muffin pans into good use, aside from making cupcakes.  My own recipe was a success!

Quiche bites for our little boys. 

Tiny versions of vegan roasted asaparagus and onion quiche.

Perfectly paired with home brewed mango peach iced tea. 

I'll post the recipe tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Carpenters Sew Too

Oven Mitten with Today's Broccoli and Cheddar Quiche

My first attempt at sewing.

I grew up in a home where creativity was highly encouraged.  Dad was always building something with his tools and mom sewed and made things for us.  There were no boys in the house (except for Dad), so I gravitated more on the 'tough' crafts like carpentry and painting furnitures.  It was inevitable for one of the girls to be Dad's handy assistant.  Luckily, it was me.

Some of my favorite memories was helping Dad build my (then) baby sister's nursery closet and her matching doll's closet.  Digging our first pond and crafting our vegetable garden's fences were so fun too.  Everything was built from scratch using manual tools.  While I was spending time with Dad, my other sisters were either drawing paper dolls or watching mom sew.

Big sis learned sewing quick, she was a natural.  Soon, she was making us tote bags, skirts and tops to match our dolls.  Back then, I thought sewing was difficult to learn.  Watching mom and sis pedal our old Singer sewing machine with so much ease seems to be a skill reserved for the 'crafty queens'.  That's when I decided I'd rather build, draw and doodle with paints.

An Artist's Oven Mitten.  Detail.

Fast forward to twenty years (wow, it was that long?),  I bought Mom her first electrical sewing machine for mother's day.  It's high time she retire the twenty-three year old Singer.  And it's my time to teach her how to use it.  But I haven't used one before.  

This is when technology comes handy.  We played the instructional DVD that came with it.  She was still intimidated, that the machine sat untouched for a whole week.  So, one morning I dared the (formerly) impossible task - sew.  

I needed a new mitten for baking (or should I say 'warming' up frozen stuff), perhaps that will be easy.  In carpentry, Dad would say 'Measure thrice, cut once'.  I learned that in sewing the hard way.  But aren't mistakes the best teachers?  

After five hours of often interrupted (with a little tot tugging every now and then) of cutting, pinning and sewing, I finally finished my first project. 

Just in time to pull out our baked (warmed up) quiche from Costco.

Today is Valentine

Don't wait another year to show your loved one how special they are to you.  Today, I decided to make it Valentine.  I surprised my husband with my own version of B&B (bed and breakfast) recipe.   A homemade steaming dark chocolate, heart wheat toast and spinach quiche.  

Now, it's your turn.  What will be your recipe for a spontaneous act of love?