Quick Quiche

I don't mean to continue my streak of French foods, but I wanted to add my favorite recipe for quiche. The reason I even know what a quiche is (pronounced "keesh") is because a few years back at the child care center I worked for, my awesome co-teacher and I had to pick a country for International Night, and one year we chose France. This was a center wide event where every classroom had to pick a country and educate the children about it (like where the country was located, what the flag looked like, and so on). We taped up a sign- up sheet on the door for parents to bring in either ingredients or dishes for the event.

"What the hell are some French foods?" My co-teacher and I racked our brains: baguettes, madeleine cookies, cheese, etc. I remember using Google for some ideas. Then one afternoon, one of our kids decided to print something from a computer game based on different countries. Now, we told our kids that printing was not allowed and that "it hurts trees" (because trust me, if they were allowed to print whatever they wanted, we would have destroyed an entire rainforest, no joke), but this one printout was a recipe for quiche. A recipe for French food! How perfect we thought. So I took on the challenge of making quiche, whereas my partner made a cherry dessert (clafoutis I believe?). It turned out to be pretty darn awesome. And this recipe is so great for breakfast/brunch, especially if you need to feed a few mouths. The best part about it is that you can make it the night before, fridge it, then throw it into the oven when the time comes. It's absolute perfection! 

Quiche (Egg Pie)

Ingredients: 
-1 frozen pie shell, thawed
-1/2 cup grated Swiss cheese (I like to add some cheddar in there too)
-1/2 a small onion
-1 c half and half cream (to be honest, sometimes I just use regular milk)
-dash of salt, pepper, and nutmeg
-4 whole eggs, beaten

Again, quiche is awesome because of its flexibility. So in addition to the recipe, I like to add other favorites such as:
-crisp, fried bacon (me gusta turkey bacon)
-sauteed, seasoned mushrooms
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Directions
1) Reheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2) In the thawed pie shell, sprinkle cheese, onion, as well as the other desired ingredients.
3) Mix the rest of the ingredients together.
4) Pour the mixture into the pie shell.
5) Bake for 45 minutes until firm.
(Directions so easy a kid can do it! ;)

Enjoy!