{"id":1026,"date":"2016-01-14T21:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2016-01-23T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T16:58:39","slug":"dont-crowd-the-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/savory-pies\/dont-crowd-the-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Crowd the Mushrooms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week we ventured into savory pies! I was very excited for this week; I was ready to cook big hunks of meat for a big hearty pie. Unfortunately, this was the week I decided to sprain my ankle. So, I settled for a quiche, something that could be made in one day, relatively quickly.\u00a0With my savory pie, I still wanted to push myself a bit even though I had physically constraints. So, I decided to try out a cream cheese crust and decided to transform for my favorite omelette contents into a quiche.<\/p>\n<p>The cream cheese crust was something I stumbled across while looking on the internet for alternative fats in pastry dough. I used a mish-mosh of a couple different crust recipes and mostly I was surprised at how little flour (only 1 cup!) it used in comparison to the butter and cream cheese. Albeit this was the first single crust pie I have made, so things are already halved from what I was used to , but still there was a lot of fat in comparison to flour. Also the water was mostly optional in recipes I looked at, I definitely needed it; they must live in some ridiculously humid places. Once everything was sorted out, it mixed fine and rolled out nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1027\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1023-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cream Cheese Pastry\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1023-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1023-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1023.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, on to all the things going on inside of the quiche. I chopped up my mushrooms and my onions (Moment of pride: I evaded watery eyes through some miracle) and set about cooking them. I had to make them in two batches because they couldn&#8217;t all fit in one pan, and because I was terribly afraid of crowding the mushrooms. Both Julia Child&#8217;s and my mother&#8217;s voice keep saying the mantra &#8220;don&#8217;t crowd the mushrooms&#8221; over and over again in my head. The first batch went well, but I guess the second one was slightly larger and they definitely got a little too much steam from their own juices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1024-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"mushrooms all chopped\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1024.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1029\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1025-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"I crowded the mushrooms\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1025-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1025-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1025.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But we must move on. Assembling the pie was super easy. The mushrooms, onions, and goat cheese all went in the bottom and then I just poured in the egg mixture, filling in the crust quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1030\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1029-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"crust with mushrooms and cheese\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1029-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1029-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1029.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1031\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1030-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"almost done quiche\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1030-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1030-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1030.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then into the oven it went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1032\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1039-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"mushroom, onion, and goat cheese quiche\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1039-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1039-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lifeofpie13\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_1039.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think, aesthetically, this is the best pie I have made yet (this is my third pie, so there is a low bar). Everything is evenly golden and delicious looking. The only thing I might have changed was to perhaps add some chives into the egg mixture, so that I might have a pop of green. Unfortunately the forces at be made it so that I couldn&#8217;t actually taste the quiche I made. Hopefully it was good? I&#8217;ll have to make it again for myself sometime so I can see if I actually succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week we ventured into savory pies! 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