Dear Mom and Dad:

Why does every tradition I come up with involve food?

Love,

Rebekah

To help us adjust to attending church at 4:00 in the afternoon, we started a new Sunday morning tradition: Brunch. ("morning" is a very loosely defined term)

Here was the menu from our first attempt:

- Apple fritters (recipe in previous post)

- English muffins & homemade jam

- Spinach & Bacon Quiche Lorraine (recipe below)

- Coffee

- Mimosas (who doesn't love an excuse to drink champagne at 11:00 in the morning?)

Quiche Lorraine

Ingredients

Puff Pastry

eggs

ricotta cheese

swiss cheese

milk

fillings of choice: spinach, bacon (pre-cooked), artichokes, sausage, etc.

salt & pepper

roma tomato

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2) Press puff pastry into inside of muffin tin cups. You can stretch the pastry out some, but try to get it to cover the entire muffin cup. I can usually get nine muffin cups out of one sheet of puff pastry dough.

3) Combine eggs, milk, ricotta cheese, salt & pepper, and fillings in a bowl. For 12 muffin cups, I use about 3 eggs, 2/3 c. of milk, 1/3 c. ricotta cheese, salt & pepper to taste, and a total of 2/3 c. of whatever fillings I'm using.

4) Shred swiss cheese into bottom of each muffin cup. Fill almost to the top with egg mixture. Top with more swiss cheese and a thin slice of tomato.

5) Bake for 10 minutes, reduce oven temp to 375 degrees. Finish baking until browned and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean (Probably around 20 minutes-- I never actually pay attention).

6) Serve warm & enjoy!