The Homestead Way of Life

Small Blessings

     I had a hankering for my favorite quiche today.  I experimented a bit and finally came up with a recipe that resembles the quiche I have always loved from Marie Callendar's restaurant.  It's a fairly straightforward spinach quiche, but in the last five minutes of baking I garnish the top with more cheese, diced tomatoes, bacon crumbles and green onion.  Mmmm....

     After I had gotten my pie in the oven, however,  I found to my dismay that I did not have any green onion.  I began to picture my quiche with only bacon and tomato on top - not nearly so yummy or pleasing to the eye.  And, then a thought occurred to me.  Every spring, the riverbank near our home becomes lush with wild green onions.  They are the sweetest, most delicate green onion I have ever tasted.  A couple of years ago, my neighbor, who has riverfront property, dug up a bucketful for me from the riverbank just outside her back gate.  I dug a hole in an out-of-the-way corner of our yard and plunked them in.  Now, each year, those delicious onions come back.  Would they be there in mid-February?  I stepped out the door and took the short walk to my onion "patch"...and there they were, fresh and flourishing.  My heart just leapt with joy!  I grabbed a handful and walked back to the house, praising the Lord all the way.

     This may seem a small thing to some, but I think it is in the small blessings that we most often meet our Lord.  I wonder at the idea that the Christian life is a series of ups and downs, from mountaintop to valley and then mountaintop again.  In my experience, it is more like a steady, upward climb.  It never really gets "easy", but there is blessed refreshment along the way, and times of rest and respite with our Savior.  If we would know Him better, we must learn to find Him where He dwells - not in the fire, or the earthquake, or the storm, but in the small things, even in the finding of a patch of green, spring onions.

Here is my recipe for quiche:

1 pie crust, unbaked (Write to me if you would like my recipe for easy homemade pie crust)

1 pkg. frozen, chopped spinach

2 cups shredded cheese - 1 cup Swiss and one cup Colby/Jack

1/4 cup diced tomatoes

2 or 3 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled

1/4 cup diced green onion

1 can evaporated milk

3 eggs

1/2 tsp. salt

pinch of nutmeg

Thaw spinach and squeeze out excess water.  Place the spinach in your prepared pie crust.  Add the one cup of Swiss cheese on top of that.  Combine the evaporated milk, eggs, salt and nutmeg with a whisk and pour over the spinach and Swiss cheese.  Bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 30 minutes.  After the 30 minutes, take the quiche out and top with one cup Colby Jack cheese, onion, tomatoes and bacon.  Put back in oven for another five minutes.  Cool on a rack for at least 10 minutes before slicing.

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04:10, 2007-Feb-19 .. Posted by homesteadinthemaking

Sounds sooo yummy.
Trixi

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04:59, 2007-Feb-19 .. Posted by Cindeerella

Glad to 'see' you!
I love quiche, and topped with fresh green onions, bacon and tomatoes! YUM!
Thanks for sharing, have a great week.

Quiche

05:12, 2007-Feb-23 .. Posted by Anonymous

Your recipe sounds great...I would also love your pie crust recipe. It is my goal to perfect my pie crust so I keep trying new ones. I still haven't found one as good as my grandma used to make......I'm so sorry I never got her recipe.

Mmm.........

07:17, 2007-Mar-9 .. Posted by Anonymous

Sounds delicious! I will have to make that. Quiche is one of my favorites!! (We'll skip the spinach, though. *wink*)

Blessings, Beckie
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12:15, 2007-Aug-1 .. Posted by Anonymous

I love your blog and bookmarked it! I hope you post more! I found it during a google seach for canning pumpkin.

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08:38, 2007-Sep-3 .. Posted by TheWedhornFamily

I love your site and I too look forward to seeing you more:)
Blessings

recipe for a easy crust

08:57, 2007-Sep-21 .. Posted by rkmyersrus

I would love the recipe for your crust!!
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Thank you!!!!!! You can add me under your friends too if you want to!
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Kim Myers