Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Quiche

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Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Quiche is super creamy and less egg like in taste and texture. Remembering a recipe from my childhood, the cream is scalded before being added to the egg mixture making a custard based creamy quiche.

 

Happy Spring, dear readers!  I hope winter is finally over and we start to see the colors of spring.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the cold weather of fall and winter.  Even for me, winter and cold weather has just gone on long enough.  I long for those warm days of spring and colors that pop out what seems like overnight.

 

I miss grilling.  Yes, I know, die hards will grill no matter what the temperature, but I’m sure they weren’t firing it up when it was negative 10, 20, or 50 like it was a few times this winter.  If you did, then kuddos to you!

 

 

But this week isn’t about grilling.  It’s about Easter recipes.  And for me Easter recipes are all about eggs and brunches recipes!  It’s about spending time together hunting for eggs and treats hidden by the Easter Bunny!

 

I think I tell this story in almost every Easter post, but since I have new followers I’m going to tell it again.  Because I look back when I was a kid celebrating Easter and how my parents made sure we believed longer than most.

 

 

My sister and I would get up early Easter morning.  Well, more her than me.  My parents never hid the eggs outside.  They were always in the house somewhere.  And let me tell you, we found them all except for one year.  One year there was one missing.

 

Now, just like every kid that celebrates Easter, we decorated our eggs with your typical egg dye.  And we would remember who decorated which when it came time to find them.  However, we would always find these colored eggs we didn’t remember dying.  And every year we would try to copy that color, but never could.

 

Come to find out, the parents would boil eggs with onion peels to create the Easter Bunny color, which is a golden brown color.  I think we were teenagers before they told us.  And since then, I always look for natural ways to color eggs.

 

 

Story time is over!  Well, not really.

 

One spring I decided to clean the inside of our new fridge from top to bottom.  I emptied the fridge, shelf by shelf, and cleaned all the nooks and crannies.  Then I did the same for the freezer.

 

Now, I tried to empty a shelf, clean that shelf, and then move on the next one.  But, here’s the kicker.  I’m not so great on my knees.  I mean, I have OA in both of them, so getting up and down from off my knees is not something that happens quickly or easily.  Just saying.

 

 

I’m nearing the final stretch of my project and I’m cleaning out the frozen water that’s hovering around the drainage tray in the freezer and then the fun begins.

 

Do you know what a thermistor is? 

 

Neither did I until I accidentally pulled it out of its slot in the freezer.  Because once I did that, the coils in the freezer kicked on and water started pouring out the back of the freezer.

 

 

I broke the fridge.  Holy S.  What the hell am I going to do?  Should I wake the hubs up?  Do I see if I can get a repair man in?  What the hell was that thing I just pulled out??  Off to Google I went to find out what in the world…

 

The thermistor tells your fridge when it needs to kick on and off.  Basically, it’s the thermostat.  Why they don’t just call it that, I have no idea.   I quickly finish up my cleaning and put all the food back in the freezer and try not to have an anxiety attack.  I am OCD checking the temperature on the freezer almost every 30 minutes.  It climbs to 14 before it starts to come down again around bedtime.

 

 

What exactly happened?  I inadvertently tripped a defrost cycle that lasts about 30 minutes.  Having never done this before I had no idea what it was, how long it would take, or what in the world was going on.  Things they don’t tell you when you buy a house.

 

What does all this have to do with this Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Quiche?  Nothing.  It just happened to be the anecdotal story I decided to share about my life in the kitchen and in our not so new home.  I say not so new because we’ve been there almost a year now.  I can’t believe how the time has flown!  But, after this month is over we can FINALLY make this house ours and start looking at paint colors.

 

YAY!  Color!!

 

 

Just like the gorgeous color in this Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Quiche.  It’s rich with broccoli cheddar flavor.  And scalding the milk truly does change the texture and flavor to the custard that’s baked into this quiche.  It truly becomes a custard and not just eggs baked with broccoli.  Its silky smooth texture adds a level of decadence to this quiche that I had forgotten about.

 

I see that I haven’t told that story yet.  Something for y’all to look forward to!

 

What things did you learn after you moved into your first house?  Words of wisdom to share for this new home owner?

Easter Recipes

• Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Quiche by A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Dill Pickle Pasta Salad with Ham by Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Easter M&M’s Cookies by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Smoked Salmon Dill Scones by Art of Natural Living
• Sweet and Sour Sausage by A Day in the Life on the Farm

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