Real men eat quiche if it has bacon, sausage, and ham

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Apr 13th 2006 @ 12:55AM

quiche I was preparing for Slashfood's Garden Party and an Easter brunch on Sunday, and in doing so, ran some menu ideas by the men who will be guests at my house on Sunday. They saw "quiche" and immediately recoiled. "I don't eat quiche," was the basic, general sentiment from all of them.

However, I am insistent on having quiche because, like French toast and Eggs Benedict, quiche is a brunchtime staple. So, I have to make it man-friendly. Taking a cue from Pizza Hut, I'm making it "Meat Lover's" with sausage, bacon, and ham.

The beauty of a quiche is that, like pizza, it is a canvas. You can take a basic recipe for the egg and cream filling and embellish it with other ingredients in any way your little heart and stomach desires. Assuming you already have a pastry dough made and ready to go, for a quiche made in a 10" tart pan, beat together 3 large eggs, 1½ c. heavy cream, a pinch of salt (depending on how salty the other ingredients are), and a pinch of black pepper. The easiest thing to do is to place the ingredients like pre-cooked meat, chopped, lightly blanched vegetables or shredded cheese on the pastry in the tart pan, then pour the egg/cream mixture over it. Bake the quiche for about 30 minutes in a 300 degree oven or until the egg filling is set.

Slice it, serve it, and call it a deep-dish egg pizza. The guys will never know.

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Tags: baking, beef, breakfast, brunch, cheese, eggs, lunch, meat, quiche, vegetables

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4-13-2006 @9:37AM Annie said... Don't you think 112 cups of cream a bit excessive? ;-) I think you meant 1-1/2 cups.
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4-13-2006 @9:40AM Angela Pitt said... Why not make the quiche with steak; a sort of Wellington quiche. That will get their motor running
in the morning.
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4-13-2006 @10:10AM B said... I never got the whole "real men don't eat quiche" thing. It's a food made of eggs, heavy cream and pie crust, what's not manly about that?
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4-13-2006 @11:15AM Chewbaca said... quiche is manly. eating scrapbooks is not manly. floral arrangements are manly. tying pretty bows are not manly.
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4-13-2006 @11:51AM sarah said... eating scrapbooks! lol! chewbaca, that just made for a funny morning for me. i can't see anything MANLIER than tearing into a scrapbook ;)
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4-15-2006 @8:53PM sarah gilbert said... sarah, i used your recipe (loosely) to make quiche last night and it was fan-fricking-tastic! and my manly army man hubbie loved it.

mine had lots of bacon, spinach, cheddar cheese, six eggs and a cup of half-and-half. ummm, yum.
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