A few weeks ago I heard someone mention putting pasta in a frittata (I think I was watching a cooking show on TV, but I can’t remember)… I was skeptical. I am one of those people who is picky about the textures of my food… So, I wasn’t sure about pasta with cooked eggs.
However, the [...]
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Don’t you just love frittatas? They are one of my go-to meals for two reasons… Making a frittata is not only quick and easy (and a dinner that I can manage even on the busiest nights), but it is also a great way to use up leftover veggies and other odds and ends that are [...]
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Quiche or tart? That is the question.
At least, that is the question I posed to my twitterverse yesterday as I was making this dish. When baking an egg mixture in pastry shell in a tart pan, is it a quiche or a tart?
Turns out (thanks to @EpicureanJourney) that a quiche is actually a type of [...]
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After only a few years of marriage, I had completely destroyed the set of pots and pans that I received as a wedding gift. The nonstick finish was pretty much nonexistent in that short time. So, I switched over to All-Clad stainless pots and pans just over a year ago. I don’t want to get into [...]
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Earlier in the week, my husband went out of town for a few days. I had to drop him off at the airport in the afternoon, so I decided to make a good hearty lunch for him so that he would have at least one good meal before the trip. I guess that’s my mother [...]
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This evening I decided to make breakfast for dinner. Earlier in the week, I was paging through my Cooking Light cookbook, and I came across a recipe for a Ham and Asparagus Frittata. I already had both ham and asparagus in the refrigerator, so I decided to give it a try.
Originally, I didn’t really think [...]
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A few weeks ago I tried a quiche recipe from a vegetarian cookbook I purchased. I wasn’t impressed by the recipe – it was fairly bland and did not seem to have the right pastry to filling ratio. I wasn’t ready to give up on quiche altogether, though.
So, I set out on a mission to [...]
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