No Place Like Home Week 2

This was our  last Christmas table!

I am delighted to be  joining in on a blog party  hosted by Sandy at  No Place Like Home to share  the special things  we do to make our Christmas merry, and especially cosy!  This is week 2!

I  was raised to put family first at Christmas.  My mother and all her sisters and their families all gathered at Grandma’s on the farm for Christmas.  Traditions were important.  Grandma was famous for her Apple Brandy cake, chocolate cake and delicious boiled cream custard. All the aunts brought their favorite foods and a royal feast was enjoyed every Christmas Day.  The mid eighties brought an end to those days when it became time for us to take our holiday tradition to my mother’s home and the food changed .  Mother liked to have a Christmas Eve party.  She would serve Shrimp cocktail, potato salad,  cereal Chex mix,  fruit salad, and pecan tassies  We always had ham, sweet potato casserole, and green bean casserole for Christmas Day.  My daughter, Amanda, loved both! 

  When my elderly parents moved  to be closer to us, Mom still expected to do her Christmas Eve party, but I did a Christmas Morning Brunch, thus began my traditional  Yuletide celebration.  Number 1 on my list was Christmas Quiche!
 

Last year Hubs and I were on our own, so  here was our traditional brunch...

Christmas Quiche,  Cranberry walnut scones,   cranberry fruit salad,   coffee and juice!

The quiche  would be a little different  each year, for example,  starting about   5 years ago I stopped using   a crust and did a magic recipe  adding  bisquick to the mix.

The quiche ahs  become   a great  tradition and  Amanda in her own home  has  quiche  as her  traditioinal Christmas breakfast many times!

Well, I made a  variation of this  dish  this morning for breakfast and it was  really very good..  yet super simple..

  I  was able to clean out a few things in the fridge.. I used  1/2 a vidalia onion and  half a yellow pepper.  For Christmas I like to use red pepper...more festive!

For Christmas I use   coun try ham becasuse I love  the savory  value of it,  but today I used up 3 slices  of deli ham from the fridge.  I   chopped  the onion, pepper and ham up and  sauteed it in my  baking pan.  If it was  Christmas morning I would have  then moved it to my pretty  red baking dish..  to this mix I had added  seasoning to taste..  including salt, pepper,  garlic powder,   onion powder,   and  nutmeg.

Meanwhile, I had  my  5 eggs and   about a 1/3 cup  of half and half  seasoned and ready to go.    Whish together and pour  on top of the  mix in the pan.

Before I put in a 375 oven, I sprinkled about 1/2 c. of shredded  swiss cheese on top.

Hubs took it out and had it cut up  before I could take a photo but it was  delish and note I didnt even have to use any bisquick.  It still  somes out and less  carbs  for me!!!  But  a  pastry or  bisquick recipe is  nice for  a Christmas  quiche!
 I baked it  for  about 35 minutes  or until the side  come away from the side of the pan and it gently golden on top!
                                            

You might like to   experiment and make your own breakfast  quiche..  so  easy...   of course my Christmas quiche was larger and  had  8 servings. I will  put the  true recipe up soon!  Check back and  have a great time this week    getting  all set for  your Merry Christmas!