Impossibly Easy chicken 'N Brococoli Quiche

A number of years ago, my friend Karen invited me to lunch, I walked with my baby Daniel to her home which was not so close, By the time I got there I could hardly move. She of coarse had this wonderful quiche ready. I've never made any other kind since. It puffs up beautifully, I've changed the "kind" to suit my leftovers or my fridge contents. Like, making it a crab quiche. All I do is mix up the portion *** starting there over the desired "kind" always use the cheese of your choice or visit Marie and make her Bacon Leek Quiche.

Impossibly Easy Chicken’N Broccoli Quiche

10oz. cooked and chopped broccoli, (you can use frozen (thawed or leftover)
1 1/3 c. shredded cheddar cheese
2 c. cooked chicken chopped
1 1/3 c. milk
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3eggs
¾ c. Bisquick*
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp pepper

Heat oven to 400degree F. or 200degree C.. Grease 10” pie plate, or quiche pan. Mix Broccoli, cheese, chicken in pie plate. Beat milk, eggs Bisquick baking mix, salt and pepper 15 seconds in blender. Pour on top of Chicken mixture. Bake 30 – 35 min. or until knife inserted in centre come out clean. Cool 5 minutes. 6 servings.

Corn Meal Muffins

Cornmeal Muffins

¾ c. cornmeal
1 ¼ c. milk
Mix together set aside

Sift together

1 c. flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 c. sugar
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Stir into cornmeal mixture and add 1 slightly beaten
egg and ¼ c. melted shortening. Stir in blueberries.
Do not defrost frozen blueberries. Fill muffin tins ¾ full.

Bake in muffin pan lined with paper cups, @ 400 degrees, for
20- 25 min.

Squash Bisque, Country Style,

Squash Bisque, Country Style
(Jamaica)

1 large winter squash, or a combo of several small ones.
It should be about 2c. of squash meat(I used butternut, acorn or even spaghetti squash)
Peeled and cut into chunks.
1 clove of garlic
1 pinch each marjoram, thyme and allspice
1 small onion finely chopped sautéed
½ tsp. sugar ( I use brown)
1/3c. sherry
1 slice lean bacon, fried crisp, crumbled
1 c. tomatoes
1 carrot
2 stalks celery
1 small potato (or 1 sweet potato)
2 tbsp. pearl barley/or rice
1 bay leaf
Tsp. Tabasco
6. c. stock/ beef/ chicken or vegetable

In a large sauce pan, fry bacon, when the bacon is crisp remove it and set aside to crumble for topping. Using the grease from the bacon, sauté onions, garlic which has been grated, celery chopped up, add marjoram, thyme and allspice. When the onions are translucent the mixture is done. I place all of this in a blender and crush it, that way my boys are not picking out the onions. Return to saucepan, add the stock, and potato, carrot, squash, bay leaf. Let cook until vegetables are tender, I like to use a potato masher to break things up, then I add the pearl barley and crushed tomatoes and bay leaf. Cook until all the flavours have a chance to mingle, approx. 30 min. (on med. Heat) add sugar and sherry and Tabasco. Serve with bacon crumbled on top of each bowl, with saltines or croutons. I also cut my bacon just ½ inch off the end of the lb. instead of fussing with a slice and then trying to crumble it up. Enjoy.

This recipe was given to my by Lois, my painting pal. I’m sure I’ve made personal adjustments so. .. I often leave the bay leaf out, just because my mother never cared for bay leaves and she was often at the table when I served this , and I have added a red pepper to my sauté and left out the Tabasco, I like the sweet potato as well and I like to mix up all different squashes. If I use the spaghetti squash alone I don’t use the potatoe masher to break up the vegtables, or I add the spaghetti squash after I mash.

Kopitka

Kopitka are Potato Dumplings.

3 cups of mashed potatoes, (I make extra amount of potatoes when I make them for supper and just use the leftovers for this dish.)They should be cold.
I put the potatoes which have been salted according to your taste into a bowl.
I draw a cross across the bowl dividing the potatoes into 4 equal parts. Scoop out one of the quarters, fill this void with all purpose flour, add 2 eggs to this and mix together, including the scooped out potatoes, with your hand. Keep adding flour until the dough comes away from your hand and you can roll it into a long sausage like roll.
I knead and roll this out on a floured surface and then cut into one- two inch chunks.

Boil a 4quart saucepan of water, I add about 1 tbsp. of oil just so they don't stick together. When water comes to a boil toss each chunk in, do not over fill the pot with too many chunks the above portion was done in two stages. When the chunks boil for awhile, and rise to the top they are done, drain, rinse and toss with melted butter.

My family likes to top these with farmers cottage cheese. But they are great with stew, or spaghetti sauce.