I don't know if it's because of the extra sun lately or what but the #chickenbitchez are going crazy with the egg laying. I had 3 friends come over and take 5 dozen eggs home each, still can't keep up.

My children are getting sick of eating scrambled eggs (that's how they like them) and I'm done with my sunny side uppers. It was time to find a way to use up a LOT of eggs.

Enter: Quiche

I decided to go with this Martha Stewart recipe not 'cause I think she's particularly awesome but because hers was the recipe I found that called for the most eggs. Some of my eggs are small so in baking the first 2 bacon-cheese quiches I used up 16 eggs (instead of 12 that the recipe called for).

Quiche was never a possibility for me before because I just learned how to make pie pastry this winter. I've made fruit pies and meat pies, but this was my first attempt at egg pie.

Do you like my pie weights?

Quiche (like banana cream pie) I learned, needs the crust to be blind baked. When I made the cream pie I actually had a whole bunch of change that I used as my weights. Well, the change is gone...gave it all to my boys for the chores they do and have not been acquiring any more, so in went all the extra cutlery.

It worked well!

Have you ever blind baked a pie crust before?

The first time I ever made banana cream pie I didn't really look at the instructions LOL! I just formed my pie shell and baked it. When I pulled it out of the oven the shell had shrunk down to a circle at the bottom of the pie plate. Bwa hahahhaaa!! I was like dafuq is this?

So if you bake it with weights holding it down, you keep your shell form intact instead of making a hockey puck.

My bacon-cheddar-egg-onion filling, and to the right my bun dough rising, gotta show off that dough ~~ FLEX!

Mmmmm...not even baked yet and I was already drooling. Ahhhhh sweet sweet bacon...sweet sweet cheese...

45 mins Later

Now here is the slightly embarrassing part, I was alone when I made these...

15 minutes after I took them out of the oven...

Needless to say it is the best thing I've ever baked in my ENTIRE LIFE!

This has to go onto my list of guilty pleasures though, I mean: bacon, egg, cheese, butter and heavy cream in the filling, lard, egg and flour for the crust...this is not something you want to be proud of dusting off a half a pie to yourself in one sitting.

This is not something you want to eat every day.

So, when the boys got home Eddie tried some. He had the same reaction as me. Love at first taste. The two little guys didn't care for it. Eddie, however, eats enough for all three of us, and somehow not even 4 days later...

Oops I did it again!

This time instead of 2 small pies I did one double sized pie. Kiedis helped me with the crust, he's such a great ally in the kitchen.

This one was sausage and cheddar, really delicious but Ed and I agree that the bacon one was wayyyyyy better.

Last FLEX before we move on :) :) :)

#GrowFoodNotLawns 2020

A new bed this year for carrots! It's 5x5 and I planted over 1000 seeds in it. It's 8/10ths sand in the bottom and garden soil on the top. I planted them after the full moon when the forecast was calling for a few days of rain.

Carrots need 2 weeks before they will sprout and you cannot let them dry out. They are planted really close to the top of the soil so it's important to water a lot in the beginning. So far the weather has been cooperating and I've only had to water the bed 2 times.

New Potato Patch

This year I'll be growing potatoes in 2 places instead of 1. I am trying a new method here. I put down a little bit of garden soil on the lawn, added my potatoes and covered with straw that I took from the chicken coop.

When the coop was cleaned out last month Eddie spread the straw around. I took the most dried out pieces and covered my potatoes with it. I added a bit more garden soil to the top of the straw to make sure it is weighted down and none can blow away. Once the greens start poking through the top I'll add another layer of straw!

Spinach is poking through in the Greenhouse!

It was planted on the last new moon. It's going to be a while yet before tomatoes and peppers can go into the greenhouse so I decided to get a crop of spinach off in there first. It's planted in the ground and the raised bed, there will be a LOT of it, I plan on freezing most...you know...for future quiches!

Here's a Super Handy Chart I Found

Make the Most out of your space! You don't need full sun for every plant, some do quite well with only 4 hours a day!

Here is the article: https://livelovefruit.com/20-shade-tolerant-plants-grow-garden-summer/