Have I mentioned that I'm a Disabled Vet (Air Force)? Or that I'm a softball widow almost every weekend and sometimes, it feels like months on end during rec season?
I'm a lot of things but these are two main ingredients in the recipe that makes up moi.
I've been a disabled vet since I was 21 when I lost the hearing in my left ear due to a military hospital error. A tumor was left to grow until not only it, but most of the bones in my ear had to be surgically removed. No conductivity remained. Nada. Zippo. I no longer felt like a viable human being, not being able to participate in normal conversation without saying the dreaded "What?" fifty million times a conversation, bending my head and turning my body so my "good ear" was toward the speaker, trying to lip read, suffering humiliation almost every conversation because I still misheard important words, often entire phrases. Often my mishearing islaughable. Sometimes, I'm sure, disturbing or even undignifying.
Once again I am petitioning the VA to increase my disability to more than 10% and also to give me hearing aids as my other ear is going bad. As if things weren't hard enough to hear with only one ear. Now the "good ear" is on the fritz.
My hubby who is also a Disabled Vet for other reasons, is an avid softball officianado. He's always off at the kids games, or softball board meetings, or umpiring. Many weekends, he is away all weekend doing his thing. If I want to see him, I have to hunt him down at one of the many softball parks he frequents. Although it's jacket and mitten weather in Fort Lauderdale the day I'm writing this (in advance), he's umpiring for our daughter's league.
Voila! I often get called upon to whip up a quick dinner for him late at night when he tromps in late, despite the fact I have to get up early the next morning for the day job.
Since I work full-time weekdays, everybody's on their own for weekday breakfast in my house. On weekends, however, I cook for my entire brood.
Today, I made a Quiche Lorraine that my family enjoyed. It was a little different than the normal scrambled eggs and bacon or the scrambled egg burritos I usually make on weekends. It was a hit and something I'll do again.
INGREDIENTS:
1 pie crust, pre-made or homemade
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup milk
2 cups cheese, grated (I used a blend of cheddar and Monterray Jack cheese)
6 slices bacon, cooked, diced
3 eggs
1 tbsp. All-season salt
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Poke pie crust several times with fork tines. Bake pie crust while you cook bacon and assemble the quiche.
Cook bacon. Then dice. Set aside.
Scramble eggs, pour in whipping cream, milk, salt, cheese, and bacon. Mix well.
Remove partially baked pie crust from oven. Pour egg mixture into it.
Return the quiche to the oven. Bake another 1/2 - 1 hour until egg-cheese mixture is firm.
Serve warm.
* If you prefer, exchange bacon for crab or add spinach or green onions.
I'm a lot of things but these are two main ingredients in the recipe that makes up moi.
I've been a disabled vet since I was 21 when I lost the hearing in my left ear due to a military hospital error. A tumor was left to grow until not only it, but most of the bones in my ear had to be surgically removed. No conductivity remained. Nada. Zippo. I no longer felt like a viable human being, not being able to participate in normal conversation without saying the dreaded "What?" fifty million times a conversation, bending my head and turning my body so my "good ear" was toward the speaker, trying to lip read, suffering humiliation almost every conversation because I still misheard important words, often entire phrases. Often my mishearing islaughable. Sometimes, I'm sure, disturbing or even undignifying.
Once again I am petitioning the VA to increase my disability to more than 10% and also to give me hearing aids as my other ear is going bad. As if things weren't hard enough to hear with only one ear. Now the "good ear" is on the fritz.
My hubby who is also a Disabled Vet for other reasons, is an avid softball officianado. He's always off at the kids games, or softball board meetings, or umpiring. Many weekends, he is away all weekend doing his thing. If I want to see him, I have to hunt him down at one of the many softball parks he frequents. Although it's jacket and mitten weather in Fort Lauderdale the day I'm writing this (in advance), he's umpiring for our daughter's league.
Voila! I often get called upon to whip up a quick dinner for him late at night when he tromps in late, despite the fact I have to get up early the next morning for the day job.
Since I work full-time weekdays, everybody's on their own for weekday breakfast in my house. On weekends, however, I cook for my entire brood.
Today, I made a Quiche Lorraine that my family enjoyed. It was a little different than the normal scrambled eggs and bacon or the scrambled egg burritos I usually make on weekends. It was a hit and something I'll do again.
QUICHE LORRAINE
INGREDIENTS:
1 pie crust, pre-made or homemade
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup milk
2 cups cheese, grated (I used a blend of cheddar and Monterray Jack cheese)
6 slices bacon, cooked, diced
3 eggs
1 tbsp. All-season salt
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Poke pie crust several times with fork tines. Bake pie crust while you cook bacon and assemble the quiche.
Cook bacon. Then dice. Set aside.
Scramble eggs, pour in whipping cream, milk, salt, cheese, and bacon. Mix well.
Remove partially baked pie crust from oven. Pour egg mixture into it.
Return the quiche to the oven. Bake another 1/2 - 1 hour until egg-cheese mixture is firm.
Serve warm.
* If you prefer, exchange bacon for crab or add spinach or green onions.
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