Hashbrown Crust Quiche

The beauty of this recipe, too its "yummy-ness",is that it is ultimately consumer friendly. You tin sack add together (or subtract) your favorite veggies or meat to your liking...don't similar mushrooms? Don't add together them. REALLY similar broccoli? Double the amount used. It all industrial plant in addition to turns out great. The hashbrown crust is a nice, easy, in addition to tasty modify from the traditional quiche crust.

 3 cups UNcooked shredded hashbrown potatoes
1/3 loving cup melted butter (I purpose a niggling less)
salt in addition to pepper to taste
1 loving cup diced cooked breakfast meat
1/4 loving cup thinly sliced dark-green onions (optional)
1 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese (pepper jack is expert too)
4 eggs
½ loving cup milk
1 loving cup broccoli pieces
½ loving cup diced ruby bell pepper
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Mix the melted butter alongside the uncooked shredded hashbrowns in addition to press into a 9" pie plate (I purpose an 8"x8" pan) sprinkle alongside tabular array salt in addition to pepper. I similar to purpose "Simply Shred" potatoes that y'all honour adjacent to the eggs inwards the marketplace (not frozen). If y'all purpose frozen hashbrowns, thaw completely in addition to dry out them betwixt newspaper towels earlier using.

Bake inwards a pre-heated 425F oven for xx minutes or until the potatoes kickoff to brown. Remove from oven.
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Top alongside the meat in addition to veggies. I similar to purpose sparse cutting Black Forest ham, but cooked breakfast sausage industrial plant good in addition to of class y'all can't teach incorrect alongside crisp crumbled bacon!! I also saute the veggies simply a niggling earlier putting them on transcend of the hashbrown crust; transcend alongside shredded cheddar (or cheese of your choice).
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Whisk the eggs, milk in addition to ½ teaspoon tabular array salt in addition to ¼ teaspoon dark pepper together in addition to pour over everything. Don't hold upward tempted to add together extra eggs.
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Reduce oestrus to 350 in addition to bake for xx to 25 minutes or until golden on top.

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Super Slow Puff Pastry Dessert

This recipe produces a light, flaky together with delicious pastry. There are several steps to this, but they are ALL EASY to hit together with I've included lots of extra photos to (hopefully) convince you lot to attempt it.  It actually IS tasty together with impressive to serve !!

Bottom Layer

1/2  loving cup of COLD butter cutting into cubes
1    loving cup all move flour
1/4  loving cup COLD water

If you've e'er made a pie crust, this mensuration volition endure a cinch. Using a pastry cutter, cutting the COLD butter into the flour until the mixture is crumbly together with you lot can encounter small-scale pieces of butter inwards the flour, similar this:

Add the mutual frigidity H2O together with piece of job it into the flour-butter mixture alongside a spoon or fork (your hands are also warm for this step). The mixture volition all come upwardly together, but it volition non endure smooth. It should hold off similar this:

Divide dough inwards one-half together with ringlet into 2 log shapes. Transfer the logs to a parchment lined cookie sheet, hence pat-roll them into 10" x 3" rectangles (I trim back mine to the correct shape). Make certain you lot exit enough of room betwixt these rectangles, since they puff a picayune spell baking. They should hold off similar this:

SECOND LAYER

This 2nd layer volition endure spread on overstep of the unbaked rectangles:

1 loving cup water
1/2  loving cup butter
1    loving cup all move flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3  large eggs (room temperature)
1  teaspoon vanilla extract

In a medium size saucepan, convey the H2O together with butter to a boil. Stir until the butter is melted. Add the flour together with common salt (all at once) together with straightaway stir similar crazy. The mixture volition almost instantly thicken together with volition exit the sides of the pan inwards a lump. The outset fourth dimension I did this step, I was SURE I had ruined it, but never fear, this is what it is SUPPOSED to do. It volition hold off similar this:

Put the HOT mixture into an electrical mixer together with vanquish on medium high for close a infinitesimal to cool it downward a little.

Next, add together the iii eggs, one at a time, mixing good (on medium high) in betwixt each egg. When you lot outset pose the egg in, it volition brand the dough hold off form of "slimy", never fear, that is what is supposed to hold off like.  Beat it a picayune longer together with the "slime" volition disappear (repeat alongside the other 2 eggs, mixing in the vanilla alongside the final egg).  After you lot beat in all 3 eggs, it volition hold off similar this:

Divide the dough inwards one-half together with using DAMP fingers, press it onto the unbaked rectangles you lot made earlier. It volition hold off similar this:

Bake inwards a PRE-HEATED 350°F  oven for l to threescore minutes or until they are a deep golden color. My electrical oven takes 55 minutes together with looks similar this later it is cooked:

Stir  2/3 loving cup of jam (your favorite flavor) until it is lump complimentary and spread one-half of it onto each warm pastry, similar this:

Drizzle frosting over jam. Frosting is made of 1/2 loving cup powdered saccharide + 1 teaspoon vanilla extract + close iv teaspoons of milk. Sprinkle alongside your favorite nuts.

I tried to larn a adept pic of the INSIDE of this pastry, but it is difficult to see.  Trust me, it is low-cal every bit air together with flaky!!

NOTE: If you lot forget to get got the eggs out of the refrigerator (so they tin give notice come upwardly to room temperature) simply pose them inwards a bowl of hot tap H2O for close ten minutes.

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