{"id":2478,"date":"2010-12-24T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2010-12-24T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:23:22","slug":"holiday-parties-and-quiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/holiday-parties-and-quiche\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday parties … and quiche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it’s the week before Christmas, I went to work-related holiday parties the last two nights. The first was at the home of two of the younger faculty members in my department, so it was a collection of mostly 30- and 40-something professional people, some in their 20s, a fair number of kids in the 6 – 12 range, a few toddlers, and one 3 1\/2 month old baby. There was a smattering of us 50-somethings, and one of the professor’s moms was there, so there was at least one representative of an even older bracket.<\/p>\n

Last night, I went to the associate director’s annual cocktail and dessert buffet. She had it earlier in the evening this year; usually it’s really a kind of drinks and desserts party starting around 8:00. This year it started at 5:00, instead. I was the youngster at this gathering, but not by much, a few to 5 to 10 years younger than the others there. The talk was of adult children’s careers, travel, politics, and elderly pets.<\/p>\n

I made the leftover artichoke pastry<\/a> filling into quichettes. I think I have arrived at my perfect quiche crust – 1\/2 cup vegetable shortening (I like Earth Balance<\/a> even though their website is chirping at me as I write), 10 TBLS butter, 3 cups of flour, a pinch of salt unless you used salted butter, and 3 – 4 TBLS cold water. I liked it so well that I decided to line my square loose bottom tart tin with it, and make a bacon & leek quiche for Mark and I to eat after the party.\u00a0 But I didn’t have enough crust, and I think I almost ruined the tin, by cooking the leaked egg onto it. I left it soaking overnight, and scrubbed it again this morning – seems to be OK now.<\/p>\n

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Scrubbed tart tin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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