Asparagus Cheese Strata

This recipe offers you a great excuse to take a Saturday morning spring drive to a pick-your-own asparagus farm. Take along a small child, even if you have to borrow one from a friend – children are shorter and closer to the ground so you will have to do less bending over to snap the stalks, and kids are greatly amused by the hide-and-seek process … Continue reading Asparagus Cheese Strata

Mexican Quiche

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 9-inch pie pan with one pie crust. In skillet, sauté onions in butter until tender. Reserve 1 tablespoon each of chopped tomato and sliced olives. Stir remaining tomato, olives, garlic powder, cumin, pepper, and chiles into skillet. In small bowl, combine beaten eggs and Tabasco; beat well. Reserve 2 tablespoons of egg mix. Stir ½ cup of each cheese … Continue reading Mexican Quiche

Quiche Lorraine I

We’ve never been able to precisely replicate the “cheese pie” served at Andre’s Confiserie Suisse in Kansas City, but this one is close. There is no quiche recipe, notwithstanding the excellent work of Julia Child, that will turn out a cheese pie, or a cheese pie with onion and bacon, as good as Andre Bollier’s. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 9-inch pie pan with … Continue reading Quiche Lorraine I

Cheese and Mushroom Casserole

Auntie Ruth was Granddaddy’s older sister – a kindergarten teacher and the darling of all the tots in the family. She passed down the one truly infallible cure for hiccups, time-tested in all her decades of dealing with five-year-olds: ten swallows of water, with no pauses for breath or anything else. She also was a wonderful cook who turned out perfect, elegant meals in the … Continue reading Cheese and Mushroom Casserole

Carla’s French Toast

She has cheerfully shared this recipe with anyone who has ever eaten it, allowed many people to watch her make it, and everyone still complains that they can’t replicate it. She doesn’t know why. Whatever you do, make sure the bread is soaked with egg mix – not just lightly coated with it. Also, you’d better have a large loaf of bread standing by. People … Continue reading Carla’s French Toast

Mom’s Macaroni and Cheese

Every time we have served this to family or friends, the pan is scraped clean. It doesn’t matter how big the pan is; there are never any leftovers. The trick is not more melted cheese – it’s making it with a creamy mornay sauce (plain old béchamel with cheese added). At this moment, you are probably wondering why there is blue cheese among the ingredients. … Continue reading Mom’s Macaroni and Cheese