Dinner Diaries

Meatless Quiche

I don't make a lot of meatless meals around here. I always save and write down meatless recipes and then never make them because I'm afraid that if it doesn't include chicken or sausage or something then no one will eat it. But I saw this recipe, remembered it, made it, and people ate it! I couldn't get away with this every night, but it worked once anyway.

Ingredients:
Pie Crust (see below)
8 eggs
Feta Cheese
1 medium onion, chopped
Fresh (not frozen!) spinach leaves
Salt and Pepper

Directions:
In a skillet, cook onions until they become translucent. Add several large handfuls of spinach leaves. They will look like a lot at first but quickly cook down and get smaller. Cook onion and spinach until spinach has completely wilted (but not lost it's pretty green color). Add onion/spinach to pie crust. Beat eggs and add to pie crust over onion/spinach.Add a good amount of crumbled feta across the top. Bake at 350 until egg has set.

This was much better than I expected. Something about the saltiness of the feta with the sweet of the onion. And the fact that the spinach tasted nice and not spinach-y. Frozen spinach sometimes tastes very bitter. This did not do that at all. Maybe because it took on some of the onion flavor in the pan helped? And the herb flavor from the crust made it all happy. I will definitely make this again. And I won't even add bacon. No I won't.

*Pie Crust
Easiest pie crust recipe EVER.
1 stick butter
1 cup flour
dried herbs
ice water

Make sure the butter is cold and cut into small cubes. Sprinkle in any dried herb to the flour. Rosemary, Oregano, whatever you have - just add it. Using a fork, mash the cold butter into the flour until it looks like the flour has little pebbles all around. Add just enough ice water (3-6 tbsp) to form it into a ball. Wrap the ball in plastic and put in the fridge for at least 15 min (don't skip this step!!). Remove from fridge, roll out and put in pie pan.
Better yet, double this recipe, and put the second ball in a ziplock bag in the freezer to use for next time.