Got Leftovers?

Get quiche. I haven’t made one in decades. But Molly, who doesn’t eat eggs or egg dishes, came back from France making—and consuming—quiche frequently. I figure, what the hell, I can switch from omelets to quiche. It’s a fine line. Really, except for the crust, it’s no line at all.


And of course, the primary use for omelets is to soak up leftovers. So here goes a leftovers quiche. Or quiches. Because I made breaded chicken cutlets for the non-seafood crowd the night Molly and I ate fritters made with some gorgeous New Zealand mussels I found in the freezer case at the Oriental Mega-Mart. The frig had a bag of the fried chicken slices and one big uncooked boned and skinned breast from the pack I thawed on Sunday evening. So I made one breaded and one un-breaded chicken quiche.


Like this. First, I roasted a handful of diced Kunzler bacon with a couple thin-sliced onions in a touch of olive oil and butter with some basil (the latter because I’m out of dried thyme at this time). 

Bacon and onions roasted and

ready to rock and roll. 

I diced up the uncooked chicken and heaved that into the pan to roast up with the bacon and onion. While that finished up I blind-baked two refrigerator-case pie crusts in springform pans sprayed with nonstick stuff. When they cooled, I sorted the chicken out of the bacon pan and laid that in one crust, and chunked up the breaded chicken into the other. On Molly’s advice I grated a drift of parmesan over each. Then distributed the bacon and onion into the two pans. 

Two quiches ready for custard.

Meanwhile I beat a dozen eggs with a big container of good Greek yoghurt and big slug of Tabasco sauce. Into this I mixed the leftover egg noodles from chicken cutlet night, diced into pieces roughly the size of the bacon pieces from the other pan. 

Custard base with egg noodles

added ready to dump over the

chicken.

Poured the batter over the chicken, grated more cheese atop, and baked ‘em until Molly said they were done. Served them with a salad and the good cheese bread from the Giant. 

Finished product.

Salad to accompany.

Best use of leftovers ever? Well, it’s not an omelet. 


But it is almost!


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