France may be the home to over 500 cheeses but I don’t often see any that are smoked.
Maybe it’s because the preference seems to be for soft cheeses….
The other day, at my favorite Grand Frais, I found a Corsican smoked sheep’s milk cheese.
Naturally, I bought some.
After nibbling on it for a few days I decided to use some in a quiche (rainy day).
Naturally, I used my sheep’s milk Greek yogurt.
In case any of you are curious as to what my shredded potato crust looks like – I decided to take a photo. (That’s the smoked cheese in the corner.)
After baking, of course.
Sausage and Tomato Quiche
Total time: 65 minutes
Ingredients:
- Crust:
- 2 medium potatoes, 12oz (360gr) total, shredded (not peeled)
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp celery salt
- 1 tsp olive oil
- Filling:
- 10oz (300gr) sausage, bulk or removed from casing
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1/2 red pepper, sliced, slices cut in half
- 3 tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 3oz (90gr) cheese, smoked if available, sliced
- 1/3 cup green olives, sliced
- 1 tbs olive oil, plus a bit for the dish
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbs Dijon-style mustard
- 1/2 cup (4oz, 120ml) milk
- 1/2 cup (4oz, 120gr) Greek yogurt
Instructions:
- Crust:
- Mix shredded potato, salt and egg.
- Pat into a lightly oiled quiche or 10″ (25cm) pie plate, working it up the sides a bit for the edges.
- Bake in 400F (200C) oven for 15 minutes.
- Filling:
- Heat oil in a skillet.
- Add onion, pepper, and sauté 5 minutes
- Add sausage and brown, breaking it up as it cooks. If it’s very fatty, drain before using in quiche
- Whisk together 3 eggs, mustard, milk, and yogurt.
- To assemble:
- Arrange tomatoes over the baked crust.
- Top with sausage mixture, spreading out evenly.
- Sprinkle with green olives and top with cheese.
- Pour the egg mixture evenly over all.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes, until center has set.
- Remove and let rest 5 minutes. Slice and serve.
We’ve had dry, sunny, warm weather recently so work has, once again, moved forward on the pool.
The ‘flying buttresses’ on either side have been cemented in, everything is level, and the footers and frame for the ends have been laid out.
Did I mention that the YouTube videos say that one can assemble the pool, start to finish in two days?
Perhaps, they have more people working on it.
And it’s not located in a water-logged, clay, former farm field.
Progress is being made…. We are pleased
It’s going to be 95 here today. If that was my pool, I’d be in that little man made lake! 😉
Your pool probably can be set up in two days, if you’ve done ten or twenty and gotten the assembly down to an art form. And as long as one is not like my husband who tosses the instructions first and three or four days later, will fish them out of the garbage and actually read them…
Actually, he watched lots of YouTube videos…. But he is doing it all by himself – and it’s a lot of digging. He’s got all summer. We usually don’t get that kind of heat until later… I hope!
Wow…definite progress ! Do you have to app,y for permission to fill it like in Australia ?
We asked, but didn’t need it for the above ground pool. In-ground is 10 times as expensive and permission required 😉