Chicken Broccoli Bacon Quiche

We needed comfort food today ! We attended the local Murfreesboro Christmas Parade and got chilled... so we came home and decided to make a Quiche.

Robyn had just been to the grocery store and had brought home fresh broccoli and heavy cream.

I found a great recipe that I "doctored" and it turned out fantastic.

INGREDIENTS:

1 - 9" pie crust
1 - cup of heavy cream
3 - eggs
1 - Teaspoon minced garlic
2 - Tablespoons of lemon juice
1 - cup of shredded cheese ( I used a "casserole blend" of shredded cheese - just use what you like best !
1 - chicken breast
1 - part of a head of broccoli
1 - cup of Hormel Real Bacon Bits ( great taste )
Seasonings - I used Tony's and onion powder

METHOD:

preheat oven to 350

• boil 1 chicken breasts ( or a three frozen tenderloins )
• This only takes a few minutes.... chop them up into bite size morsels.and put to the side to cool
• DON'T dump the chicken water !
• Place a couple handfuls of the broccoli florets into the hot water... bring to boil and boil for a few minutes until slightly tender.

• Remove from water and chop

• Beat the eggs
• Add the cream
• Add cheese, garlic, and lemon juice
• Beat
• Add seasonings (onion powder and Tony Chachere's Cajun Seasonings) to taste
• Beat
• Add bacon, chicken, and broccoli
• Stir
• Pour into unbaked pie crust
• Place pie on cookie sheet into oven
• Set timer for 1 hour
• Go take a hot soaking bath

Remove promptly from the oven slice and eat.... YUM



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"Tomato Bread"

A Southern Poor Man's Pizza ! So you have left over biscuits from this morning? Not a problem... Laura called to tell me how to recycle, recover, reuse these little morsels of love.

Take your left over biscuits and crumble them up into a baking dish.

Open a large can of stewed tomatoes and pour over the biscuits

Top the whole thing with shredded Parmesan Cheese

Pop it into a preheated oven (350)

Allow the whole dish to become hot and bubbley.

Serve with a smile !

Hor d'oeuvres - Cheese Pecan Ball - Cajun Style

This is always a dish you can bring to a party and NEVER have to worry presenting it to your hostess...it's always eaten.

HORS D’OEUVRES

CHEESE – PECAN BALL
1- 8 ounce pkg cream cheese softened
1 C. pecans, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, minced

2 T Worcestershire sauce
5 dashes of Louisiana Hot Sauce (or you can use Tabasco)

1 T minced onion

¼ C chopped parsley

Cajun Seasonings (Slap Ya Mama! or Tony Chachere's )

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Combine cream cheese, sauces, garlic, onions and 1/2 C. of the nuts.

Form into a ball; chill for a couple of hours until firm.

Remove from the fridge and roll in the parsley and remaining nuts and sprinkle a little cajun seasoning on the ball.

Wrap in waxed paper and return to the fridge.

About 15 minutes prior to your guest arrival set the cheese ball out with assorted crackers.

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 How do you peel and mince garlic???? OK first pull one of the garlic pods off the ‘garlic toe’...it has a white papery shell… to remove that…simply whack the clove with the flat side of your large kitchen knife…presto your garlic is naked !! NOW simply chop the stew out of that thing!!

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Strange that I am already thinking about the holidays ... and it must be 90 outside or maybe it's because I have the AC set to 60!

Until next time.... maybe we'll cook rice!