Delicious... and Unhealthy

I've had a busy, busy, busy day. Nevertheless, here is a quick blog entry that incorporates a scrumptious recipe:

My Favorite Quiche!

Ingredients

1 pie shell (I don't usually make this from scratch, but every now and again I do... However, I'm not providing a recipe for the crust so you'll just have to figure that out on your own -- sorry!)

4 eggs

1 1/4 cup half-and-half (today I added some heavy cream left over from my Guinness cheesecake!)

1/2 teaspoon salt

5 dashes cayenne

1 - 2 cups shredded Swiss

1/2 cup cheddar

1/2 cup mozzarella

3/4 cup cottage cheese

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Crack eggs into a bowl and "Beat It" like Michael Jackson.

3. Add half-and-half and seasonings, beating those as well.

4. Add all the cheeses and keep mixing things together.

5. Pour the eggy, cheesy concoction into the pie shell.

6. Bake 50 minutes, then let stand at least ten minutes before serving.

Sometimes I add mushrooms and broccoli. Tonight when I made it, I only added mushrooms. I chopped them up into really fine bits because they will make the texture of the quiche a little bit meaty, if you will.

Side note: "Meaty" is not my favorite word. I once read a book for my book club and it was called The Infinities. One thousand percent, I DO NOT recommend it. The story was all about this guy who wore pajamas that were stained and too small, and the main character then tried to fix a radio at the kitchen table, but his hands were meaty and he couldn't manipulate the little pieces (screws and gears and whatnot) as a result. (If my friend Siri is reading this, she'll argue that this was not the gist of the story, but it's pretty much all I remember about that horrid, horrid book.)

Side note #2: I made a quiche tonight because my book club meets tomorrow and we are having breakfast for dinner because we read Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Fun idea, right? It was all Erin.

I'm going to bed now. Here's what the quiche looks like:

(My advice is to serve it with a salad. That'll counteract some of the calories, I think.)