Only MacGyver Could Make a Gourmet Quiche With Fewer Ingredients

The weekend is here and let’s face it, the same bowl of cereal or piece of toast that does the trick during the week just ain’t gonna cut it on our days off.  The weekend is a time to wake up leisurely, walk around in a robe and read the paper while enjoying a veritable cornucopia of delicious brunch food.  Well, that would be nice.  Unfortunately, we may have to go into lab, we don’t have time to cook, we don’t have money for expensive ingredients and we don’t own a robe.  That leaves us with only one question: WWMD (What Would MacGyver Do)?

Facing these circumstances, MacGyver would have but only one choice- to make a delicious blue cheese quiche that can easily be personalized to accommodate our own taste preferences.  Although we know he could whip one up using nothing but an empty gum wrapper and a magnifying glass, we’re not that skilled – so we’re going to need three ingredients.

Traditional quiche recipes are pretty straightforward and use eggs and heavy cream as the foundation.  Other flavors are then layered in and what started out as a simple-sounding dish may now require over 15 ingredients and a black belt in the culinary arts.  But quiche is too delicious not to find a simpler (and cheaper) way to make it.

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MacGyver’s Blue Cheese Quiche

Ingredients

  • 1 x 8 ounce jar creamy blue cheese salad dressing
  • 1 x 16 ounce egg substitute
  • 1 x 9 inch unbaked pie crust
  • Several strips crisp bacon or chopped ham (Optional)

Procedure

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Mix the egg and dressing well and pour into the pie crust.
  • Top with the bacon or ham (If including it)
  • Bake 25 to 30 minutes.
  • Remove from oven and let stand 5-10 minutes to set.
  • Put on robe, get paper and enjoy!

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The real beauty of this blue cheese quiche recipe is that there are no rules for it’s customization.  If you like spinach – add it.  If you like chopped chopped scallions or sauteed onions, add them!  This is just a starting point for further customization.  Think of it like troubleshooting a reaction – the first one may have worked fine, but the next ones could be even better.

Quiche is also not restricted to breakfast.  You can make one the night before and then have it waiting for you when you come home from a long day in lab.  In that case, the time from walking in the door to eating could be less than a minute, if necessary.

Oh, and if you don’t have a robe – hang in there, you’ll turn 60 eventually…

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What food do you like to eat on the weekends?

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4 comments so far. Join The Discussion

  1. Bonnie

    wrote on May 21, 2010 at 11:04 am

    You've transformed a good simple recipe into something completely devoid of actual food. :( Eggs are cheap, nutritious, and last a long time in the fridge, so the only valid uses for egg replacer are for vegans and people living in space.

    If I'm going to make a quick quiche limited to 3 ingredients, I'd rather skip the crust and make it out of blue cheese, cream, and eggs. Sure, you have to add your own salt and pepper, but the result is something my grandmother would recognize as food, which I consider a pretty good benchmark for success.

    My weekend breakfast is bacon and eggs cooked on a gas grill with a griddle pan, but then again I'm a spoiled postdoc these days so I have such luxuries as a back yard and sunday mornings. ;)

  2. alan@benchfly

    wrote on May 21, 2010 at 7:14 pm

    Hahaha- well, that certainly wasn't my intention! I agree that eggs are delicious and cheap, unfortunately I have several friends who don't eat them, so this is an alternate way for them to get into the quiche world…

  3. LuCy

    wrote on May 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    another good "McGyver food" is eggs, spinach and rice (plus cheese and salt) and 3 minutes in the microwave

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