Green Chile and Bacon Quiche

GREEN CHILE, BACON AND GOAT CHEESE QUICHE

A Pi Day Dinner 

Once a year, we are gifted with an excellent excuse to eat our dinner, lunch, dessert, and any other meal we can think of out of a crust in celebration of Pi day (March 14th!). In that spirit, I decided to make this delicious quiche for dinner.

Quiche was once a loathsome dinner that my brother and I used to try and find ways to throw into the bushes or feed to the dogs under the table when my mother made it for us. We hatefully referred to it as "egg pie". This was no fault of the delicious quiche my mother made and instead the fault of my child's palate.

I refused to eat this amazing food for many years until I went to France as a teenager -- my love for quiche was reinvigorated. How had I lived without this dinner for so long?!

Tonight I strayed far away from the traditional spinach that I love so much and opted for this rich and spicy mixture of green chile and bacon. Quiche is a fantastic weeknight dinner, quick enough for a Monday when grabbing dinner out seems so easy and luxurious enough that you won't mind having to roll out the dough.

Ingredients 

Dough
     1 cup whole wheat flour
     1 stick butter
     Enough ice water to bring the dough together

Quiche
     4 pieces of bacon sliced
     1/2 c chopped green chile (spicy!)
     1/3 c crumbled goat cheese
     4 eggs
     1/3 c. half and half
     1 t. salt
     1 t pepper

How to Do It
1) Cut the butter into the flour and then add enough ice water to bring the dough together. It should stick together easily but not stick to your hands.
2) Roll the dough out large enough to fit into a 8 inch tart pan and place dough in pan cutting off extra
3) Fry bacon, at last minute add green chile to cook out all water
4) Whip 4 eggs, half and half, salt and pepper together
5) Mix in bacon and green chile
6) Pour egg mixture into tart shell
7) Sprinkle crumbled goat cheese on top
8) Bake quiche at 425 for 25 minutes until eggs are set and slightly golden brown on the outside.
9) Try not to eat all of it in one setting