Potato Crusted Quiche

The truth is, I hate making pie crusts. I generally make everything myself to avoid the trans fats of processed things but I almost always buy pie crusts. So, I decided to completely forget about the pie crust and use potatoes (my loves favorite veggie).

I don't ever cook with a recipe but here is the gist of what I did.

Saute veggies until tender (anything will do but I did peppers, onions, and zucchini). Mix veggies that don't need to be cooked into beaten eggs. Approx 6 eggs for a quiche.


Slice potatoes very thin and line an oiled pan with them. Bake for 10-15 minutes all by themselves to get them soft before adding the egg part of the quiche.


Don't tell your wife how to slice the potatoes more than once :)


Put sauteed veggies into the egg mixture. Poor the egg mixture on top of the precooked potatoes. Bake at 375 for approx 40 minutes, or until egg is fully cooked and there is a slight brown huge to the top of the quiche.


I kinda followed this recipe on this blog if you need more details :)

For the Love of Cooking

Duttisty Play Day

Do you like this merge of our two names? I think it is funny!

This past weekend we joined families for a play day at my parents house. It was wonderful! The moms took off in kayaks first thing in the morning.


We took parents and kids over to Rocky Point to scavenge for sea glass, sea shells, and cool drift wood via canoe.


Turns out swimming is a lot more fun than hunting for sea glass.




Lunch was our family's special: Pizza in the outdoor wood fired oven. The kids were wonderfully creative but unfortunately for me they LOVE meat!


And after the belly was full of pizza we went back to the dock for some more relaxing. I love seeing both of our parents just chilling together on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Icecream

Who doesn't LOVE icecream?

Adventures in the Rain

This morning we decided to surprise my mom by driving up to her church for the service she was leading. We left the house and the sky was dark but it wasn't raining. Fifteen minutes into our hour drive it started to poor. Buckets. But that let up after about 10 minutes and we continued on until we started to hit mini lakes in the road. Soybean fields were swamped. Gutters were gushing. We drove slowly through many low spots in the road until we hit a line of cars who were all turning around to avoid the bottom of one specific hill. We took a detour to navigate ourselves around that spot in the road but on this corn field adventure we found another lake in the road. As we were coming up to this bend my love says to me, "babe I can't see the end of this one". So, out I jump to walk through the floods to see if we are going to make it to the other side.



We successfully didn't flood the engine and made it to church only 10 minutes late. We walked in and shocked my mom who had just started her talk about "contemporary marriage". This New Yorker cover from this July was hanging in the front of the room.



She then led the group in a discussion of how marriage is evolving and how the legal and spiritual aspects of marriage interact. Here are some of the questions she asked. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts :)

1. What does the marriage ceremony process say about the couple and their
families and why is it so complicated?
2. In what ways does the wedding day impact or change the couple and their
families?
3. Is there an ethics question to be considered about the wedding business?
4. What does “getting married” mean spiritually/psychologically to the various
people involved?
5. What does the denial of legal marriage do to the psyches and spirits of gay folks
who have chosen life long partners?

Tubing

The new boat pulled its first set of tuber this weekend! The whole family loaded up into the plush seats and off we went into the Choptank.




Since it was the kids first time tubing, two adults made a kid sandwich. I think my love enjoyed herself as much as the kids!

Dog Days of Summer

It is hot. Really hot. I always prefer it hot over cold but wow has it been hot! So the dogs want very little to do with going outside unless there is water involved. So, we took a trip down to Wye Island this past weekend. With our friend Easton along for the adventure off we went.


The path was nicely covered with shade.


The tide was out so the dogs could wade way out into the water.


There was a rope swing which clearly was meant for high tide but my love took a turn swinging on it. Easton got wild over the swing and we captured one of his flying leaps.


Then much to our surprise a bunch of horses came down the path and plunged right into the water.


We decided to sit down in the sand and watch them for a while before heading back.


It was a lovely way to spend a sunday morning on the eastern shore.