Mediterranean quiche

In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA: [ki:ʃ]) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as cooked chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked. Mediterranean quiche. ... Mediterranean quiche. ... French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. ... An egg is a body consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing of some type, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo. ... A glass of cows milk. ... For other uses of Cream, see Cream (disambiguation). ... Basket of western-style pastries, for breakfast Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pastries For the Pastry Distributed Hash Table, see Pastry (DHT). ... This article is about the food. ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ...

Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety. In addition to the egg and cream, it includes bacon or lardons. Cheese is not an ingredient of the original Lorraine recipe, as Julia Child informed Americans: "The classic quiche Lorraine contains heavy cream, eggs and bacon, no cheese."^[1] though most contemporary quiche recipes include Gruyère cheese , making a quiche à la gruyère or a quiche vosgienne. The addition of onion to quiche Lorraine makes quiche alsacienne. For other uses, see Bacon (disambiguation). ... A lardon is a piece of bacon taken from the purified fat of a pig. ... Julia Child (August 15, 1912–August 13, 2004) was a famous American cook, author, and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs. ... Gruyère cheese Gruyère cheese is a type of yellow cheese made from cows milk, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland, made in the canton of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuch√¢tel and Jura as well, as the district of Courtelary, La Neuveville, and Moutier in the... For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ...

Some vegetarian recipes use tofu rather than eggs to form the body of a quiche. Cornstarch is often used as a binder in such recipes. For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ... For other uses, see Tofu (disambiguation). ... Products treated with cornstarch Cornstarch, or cornflour, is the starch of the maize grain, commonly known as corn. ...

The word quiche is derived from the Lorraine Franconian dialect of the German language historically spoken in much of the region, where German Kuchen, "cake", was altered first to "küche". Typical Allemanic changes unrounded the ü and shifted the palatal "ch" to the spirant "sh", resulting in "kische", which in standard French orthography became spelled quiche^[2]. In Welsh culture, quiche-related catchphrases are numerous, the most popular being "Quiche 'ddi 'rogia" ("Quiche for the lads"). Lorraine Franconian is a Germanic dialect spoken in parts of the French region of Lorraine. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... This article is about the country. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...

See also

• List of egg dishes
• Pie
• Quiche-eater

The following is a list of egg dishes: Coddled egg Egg in bain-marie Fried egg Hard-boiled egg Omelette (plain) Poached egg Scrambled eggs Shirred egg Soft-boiled egg Bacon and eggs (various) Baked egg cheese (Finland) Balut (southeast Asia) Brik (Tunisia) Chawanmushi (Japan) Chinese steamed eggs Chupe (Peruvian... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... Quiche eater is a derogatory term in computer programming circles, implying that the target of the accusation is too far removed from practice and is more part to academic matters, unwilling to get their hands dirty. Being humorous in nature, it is usually a fairly mild insult. ...

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