Despite my best efforts, I inevitably have things in the fridge that are about to spoil.

The half an onion chopped up from something I cooked last week…

A few pieces of bacon that I had the noble intention of getting up early to cook before work…

The big container of sour cream that I got at the grocery store because I thought “I only really need a half cup for that meal I’m planning to make, but the larger tub is a better deal… I’ll surely find a way to use it up.”  Then I find myself at some point in the future saying “crap… the expiration date is tomorrow”.

The small container of cooked veggies from dinner two nights ago…

You get the point.

Sometimes I just need to use up the odds and ends.  When this happens, my go-to meal is quiche.

It’s simple and forgiving.  With a little heating and some eggs, the odd ball things in the fridge can become something delicious.

The most time consuming part of the process is normally the pie crust.  Thanks to a super easy press in pie crust (recipe adapted from Cooks.com), I don’t have to worry about rolling out the dough.

You will need:

Preheat the oven to 400.

Mix the dry ingredients directly in the pie pan:

Add the wet ingredients and mix with a fork until it’s nice and crumbly.  Then press evenly throughout the pan.  (It does not have to be even).

Voila…

Bake for 5 minutes in the oven.  Remove and set aside.

Now for the quiche part.  I would love to give a recipe, but because it is made up of the leftover stuff in the fridge, there is not one.

In this case, it involved an old onion, half a red bell pepper that was about to go bad, some extra mushrooms, four pieces of bacon that had been around for awhile.  I chopped them up and cooked them:

Add some shredded cheese (in this case raw edamtaler cheese, cheddar, a dollop of sour cream, a couple table spoons of softened cream cheese).

I then dumped in 6 eggs mixed with about a half cup of milk.   Popped it in the oven for 40 minutes (pulling it out and brushing the crust with water midway through).

I love that the slightly questionable stuff in the fridge became this:

My only regret is that I could not just take a fork and eat it directly from the pan.

Some nonsense about manners… personally I think they are overrated.  Okay, that is not true… but I wish it were.  Sigh.