Every time I see a flaky crust on a quiche, I want it. And making a fake paleo crust just wouldn’t be the same. So I made the crust from meat. Makes sense to me. And is more hearty. Eggs just don’t really fill me up.
I’m planning a destination vacation right now. Not going to tell you where yet. Mostly because I want to book the trip first and not jinx it. I need to get away to a relaxing place for a bit. Especially a place that includes blue waters, alcoholic beverages, and hammocks. I love hammocks.
Let’s recap some of my experiences to destination areas. All turned out to be Mexico. Boooooring. But cheap. I like cheap things. Seriously.
1st trip: I was 18 years old, on a trip with 15-20, 6 of which were girls, and had no idea how to handle alcohol. Remember, at this point in my life, I cared nothing about my health. So I had most likely over 80 tequila poppers throughout the 5 days I was there. I lost almost all my clothes from leaving them on the beach when I would go swimming, then would be too drunk to pick them up. And I came home on the plane in my swim suit and guys clothes that I was on the trip with. Proud moment in my life. Real happy I didn’t have Facebook back then.
2nd trip: I was 20 years old. Thankfully I was better with alcohol at this point. But this time, my friend and I ended up in the most ghetto hotel I had ever been in. No hot water, it smelled like sewage, and our bed broke when we jumped on it. Ghetto. Not really the last part, but whatever. So we made the most out of things by spending most of our days sizzling our skin in the sun, and drinking absinthe by night. We totally got ripped off, I didn’t hallucinate at all. Probably a good thing when I look back at it now.
3rd trip: I was 21 years old. At this point I didn’t really even want to drink that much because I was super into being healthier and taking care of my body. Blah blah blah. I was on a trip with 3 other girls who felt the same. So most of our days were spent reading on the beach then nights eating dinner and drinking wine, then being in bed by 10pm. Wicked. But the last night I was there, I was at Senor Frogs, took far too many tequila shots, and decided taking a trip down the slide that led to the ocean, while in my strapless hot pink dress, was a good idea. Well, thankfully I didn’t drown, but since I was soaking wet, no cab would take us home. So we had to walk for quite a ways. Well, I guess my feet didn’t want to walk in an orderly fashion, since the next morning I woke up with my eye cut open. I sidelined it into the bushes during our walk. Now imagine that in a strapless dress. Geez. That was fun to wake up to the next morning, covered in sand, with my hair hardened in sea salt water.
But now, all I really want is wine, a beach, and a swim suit that can take on my ass. I got my swimsuits that I ordered the other day and daaaaaaamn does my bum have a hard time fitting into the bottoms. I totally get double butt. That’s why I can’t wear Lululemon shorts anymore, the underwear lining makes me look like my butt morphed into two. Ew. Anywho, I’m booking a vacation. Let’s get out of this b*tch.
That made no sense.
Meat Crust Quiche
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
- 1 pound breakfast pork sausage (or italian sausage)
- 1 small sweet potato, diced
- 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- 4 eggs, whisked
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon ground paprika
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons bacon fat (or other kind of fat)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Now you gotta make your meat into a crust. So pull out a pie plate and begin to press your breakfast sausage into the pan until it is even all around and pressed up to the rim of the plate.
- Place the pan on a baking sheet (in case of any spills) and in the oven, and bake for 18-20 minutes until meat presses back when you poke it. It doesn’t need to be completely cooked through, but pretty close.
- While your crust is baking, place 2 tablespoons of fat into a saucepan over medium heat. Then add the minced garlic.
- Add in the chopped onions and sweet potatoes to the pan and mix to cover with garlic. Once the onions begin to become translucent, sprinkle a bit of salt and pepper on top and cover to help steam the potatoes and cook quicker.
- Once potatoes are tender after about 4-5 minutes, toss in the spinach and cover once more to help the spinach wilt.
- After a minute or two, once the spinach is wilted, remove your mixture from the pan and place in a bowl to let cool.
- When mixtures is cooled, add in the eggs, garlic powder, ground paprika and a bit more salt. Mix well.
- After the crust is done baking, remove the excess oil that may be left behind, then pour your egg mixture on top of the meat crust. It’s just fine if some leaks over into the pan because the meat will shrink just a bit.
- Place the pan back into the oven and bake for 23-25 minutes. My quiche took quite some time to completely cook through because the pan wasn’t very deep, so be sure to just poke at the middle. Once the middle pushes back when you poke it, it’s all good to go.
- Let cool, cut and serve. Avocado on top was perfect.
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Have never been outside the U.S. ( except growing up in Michigan and traveling across the Ambassador Bridge to Canada, which kinda doesn’t count if you live in MI) but I have heard WONDERFUL things about Honduras and Roatan specifically. Have fun!
I love all of your recipes!! Just wanted to get that out of the way LOL But as far as an amazing beach vacation, we just got back from a cruise that went to Honduras, Belize, and Mexico. If I could have spent the entire vacation in Honduras I would have done it without blinking! Most amazing beaches and food. Oh goodness, the FOOD! Good luck booking!
We made this yesterday for breakfast. It takes a while to make so if you’re hungry take note and make it early or make it the day before. I love leftovers personally, and when it comes to flavors like this I like to have it cold. But it’s completely up to you.
We used hot sausage and it took away from the flavors of the dish. Also, I would reduce the amount of sweet potato. I love eggs and I like my egg to other ratio to be much more in favor of the egg.
That being said, this is a great way to make breakfast for a few days of the week. My husband and I are polishing this off in three days between post WOD snacks and breakfast!
Thanks for the savory treats.
This is Crazy Good! I love quiche and have been missing the heck out of it. This is WAY better than regular quiche!
I made this for breakfast this morning and it was awesome! I did some of the prep last night, i.e. made the filling and put it in the fridge. I didn’t have any sweet potatoes in the house so I used a regular potato (my bad!). My son won’t eat potatoes if he knows they’re there so I shredded them like hash browns when I made the filling. He couldn’t even tell when he ate two pieces this morning! Keep the recipes comin’…….love them!
Made this on Sunday to eat for the week. AMAZING!! Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day…now that I don’t actually have to cook something every morning, it’s even better.
Used 5 eggs (in my head I was thinking 1 egg per serving) this will def last me 5 days.
Just made this & it’s delicious! I used turkey sausage instead of pork. I added salsa on top…easy to make!
SO GOOD! I made this once as written and then again a few nights later using a spicier sausage and also added some mushrooms into the veggies as well as some bacon that I precooked and roughly chopped. Both versions were SUPER good… awesome for any meal and the leftovers are great cold or heated up. I learned to really push the sausage up to the very top on the sides of my pie plate before baking since it does shrink quite a bit. I definitely drain the pie plate after cooking and before adding the eggs/veggies and recooking. One of the best Paleo recipes EVER…tons of flavor and even my non-Paleo-eating family members loved it.
I tried this last night and it was so good. I mixed sausage spices with ground turkey meat because it’s what I had.
All your recipes I’ve tried are amazing. Thanks!
A-Ma-Zing! Taking this to my paleo meal swap today. The gals will love it. Added brocolli to the veggies.