My thirtieth recipe with Wednesday with Donna Hay is Smoked Ham and Cheddar Quiche, found in her cookbook Modern Classics Book 1,
p. 164.
The ingredient list: a pastry crust, ham, cheddar, parsley, eggs, cream, Dijon, salt, and pepper.
We had leftover Christmas ham and this looked like a great place to park some of it. Matt had already returned to school so I made a six inch tart size which was a third of a recipe of the pastry dough and a half of the recipe of the filling. The filling just barely fit without flooding over, so it was a good guess to get a nice full shell.
While quiche is not, by anyone's standards, a diet-friendly meal, there are only 2 eggs in a half recipe, and the cream is a very small amount, making it a much more friendly version than most of my quiche recipes. It was delicious, who doesn't love ham, cheese, and eggs? It was perfect with a salad. Mark loved it (real men do eat quiche) and ate 3/4 of the tart, the 1/4 I had was plenty with the salad. Definitely a repeat.
Wonder what the others thought? Gaye's post on this is here. Margaret's post is here.
