Wednesday, July 30, 2014

QUICHE LA POODLE or real men don't BAKE vegan quiche....

I have never made quiche before in my life...and have not eaten any either...cannot have dairy ya know--and when I was a kid in the 70s it was popular amongst rednecks to say that men who ate quiche were not real men:  I am the LEAST real man you have ever met, a small unthreatening guy who makes art and cooks and bakes (I don't do windows) wears glasses and has his nose stuck in a book all the time and NOT a meat eater.... of course, the average REAL MAN sitting in his lazy boy eating Buffalo wings probably lacks my RIPPLING ABS and EYE POPPING BICEPS with which I could either kick a real man's ass or at least outrun him in a fight ;)

 Lately I have been messing around with an excellent gluten-free pie crust made with rice flour  **(making Samosas, the little savory Indian pastries made with potato and veggies :) and I had all this broccoli...but had forgotten the sweet potatoes I needed to make a certain dish...so was flipping through the VEGAN STONER cookbook and saw their vegan quiche and HOLY CATS!  2 ingredients, a crust, veggies, bake, that is IT?! Oh my.  Even cats were fooled and wanted some.
(thanks to the wife for the fine pictures)


** white rice flour pie crust, 9 inch single (I used a huge deep dish pan and doubled recipe)

-3/4 cup white rice flour, stir in a little salt and half teaspoon xanthan gum, thoroughly cut in 1/3 cup earth balance margerine then add a teaspoon honey and 2 TBS cold water, stir well to form a ball and either chill or roll out to form a crust between wax paper, then use to line pan, prick bottom with fork, preheat about 5-10 minutes before adding filling



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4 comments:

  1. Lori BuffJuly 30, 2014 at 9:49 AM

    That does look good. No wonder Spike wanted some.

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  2. Claudia from Idiot's KitchenJuly 30, 2014 at 11:41 AM

    Wow! That looks gorgeous! Can you fill me in on the filling? (I couldn't find quiche using the link to their website...must be a cookbook only thing.) I had to give up quiche when I had to give up eggs. I'm guessing a vegan recipe would solve that problem. I make a couple of crustless varieties but if they have more than 1-2 eggs, I can't eat them.

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  3. smalltownmeJuly 31, 2014 at 12:43 PM

    My real men love quiche. I'm making it tonight, as a matter of fact.

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  4. Cheri @ Blog This Mom!®August 1, 2014 at 9:36 PM

    I love love love quiche. And the one man in our house eats it too. I wish he baked it, but you can't have everything . . . or can you?

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