crustless quiche

So I know I should be updating on whats going on in my life and what not, but I'm far too excited about the breakfast I just made.  Yes I know its 11 am, not really breakfast time, but I don't care.  As long as its the 1st meal of the day it can be breakfast IMO.  Anyway, so Trader Joes in Fresno used to have these MARVELOUS crust-less quiches.  When I first went gluten-free, I lived off of them for breakfast.  One day I went in to buy some, and they were gone! Apparently, Trader Joes does not love me, and decided to not carry them in the valley anymore :(  (they do this with practically everything I love.  I basically stopped shopping there because it got too frustrating to find something I really liked only to have it gone, never to return again the next time I went in)  Well, after pining for them for quite some time, today I MADE SOME! I've tried it before, but they never really came out with the same crusty crust-less-ness if that makes any sense.  They were always soggy, or stuck to teh pan.  Apparently, the solution is as easy as silicone baking pans!

the only one I had was in bunt form... also ignore the spillage, I'm a messy baker

 I know no one who reads this probably ever had reason to try these Trader Joes beauties, but in case you decide you want some, here is the recipe I coordinated from various food websites and made my own.  I only used 3 eggs, because I cook mainly for 1 or 2 around here, so it didn't even make a whole pan worth, but you can easily make however many you want.

3 eggs
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp cayenne
pepper jack cheese (i just sprinkled however much I wanted in the bowl, so it depends on  your taste)
3 tbsp rotel ( I used the lime/cilantro version)

mix it all together, and pour into a silicone baking pan that has been sprayed with pam.  cook at 375 for 25 min.  pull it out and you have southwest crust-less quiches.  Using the same base of egg and sour cream, you can add basically whatever you want to make the quiche you prefer, be it broccoli and cheese, pepper and mushroom, ect.  Perfect breakfast.  and you can save them in the freezer and re-heat them! I'm so excited.  I'm going to go eat more!

All Play and No Work Makes Jen a Crafty Girl

So just an update on how I'm keeping myself busy in the time before we move (which we didn't ask for and during which we won't be getting a dime, but it means we get to travel together, so there are up sides and down sides).  I've made a ducky towel, 

which I found a tutorial for HERE at SewDad. Yes, Colin is wearing a ducky towel :)

And I've made two pairs of baby shoes made from Shwin & Shwin patterns and tutorials, one for my friend Christa I used to work with, shes having a little boy, you can find the pattern HERE

and one for my sister-in-law's upcoming little girl (for all who know her, I hope that I didn't spill the beans and you already knew it was coming and going to be a girl...).  You can find that pattern HERE.  I'd like to add some elastic, but I can only find white.  The shoes have some off white in them, but the white looks so... white next to the shoes.  So I'm not sure what to do about that.  I'd prefer some pink elastic.  Can you dye elastic? 

And, just for an update, the movers are coming tomorrow for our 

unaccompanied baggage, and we've been preparing...

Those signs all say "Do Not Pack", and that's our spare bathroom, full of everything they need to take.

More on how that went after they come!

How to make your gluten-free wife happy:

Step 1:  Take her to the PizzaPieCafe.
Step 2: Let her order whatever gluten-free pizza she desires.

(this one was half peperoni, chicken, bacon, and jalepenos, half peperoni, ham, bacon, and sausage

Step 3: Tell her she's cute as she grins while eating real pizza made in a brick oven for the first time in like years.

Step 4: Don't say anything when she eats almost the entire pizza by herself....

And there you have it folks.  A sure fire recipe to make your gluten-free wife the happiest woman in the world.  At least until she steps on the scale the next morning...

ORDERS!

     So it seems like whenever there is anything interesting in my life to post about, I never have the time to actually do it! So this will be another long catch-up post.  I gave my notice for my job as the Logan/Ogden RISE supervisor in the beginning of August, and my last day was the 16th.  Colin and I drove home for some family time before we left, but on our way home, we still hadn't received our orders! We finally got them on the 17th, but we were in California and had the WORST time trying to contact anyone who could help us figure them out.  We called Hill for a week and a half trying to figure out what to do, and finally got a hold of people who could help us figure out how to ship our baggage(the first thing the list said to do).  We were supposed to leave the states to be in Germany by the 7th, but the TMO(Transportation Management Office) couldn't ship us until the 8-10th.  This meant I was going to have to stay behind and ship everything myself :( Anyway, we filled out all the paperwork for that, but still had heard no word from anyone in Germany.  We needed someone over there to book us a room at the TLF(Temp. Lodging Facility) and get us a PO box so we could have a forwarding address.  We sent emails to everyone we could think of, and finally the people at the spouse's club over there got my email and forwarded it to Colin's commander's wife.  They told us that AFPC(Air Force Personnel Center) hadn't even told them we were coming! And then they gave us some awful news...I wasn't on his orders!
     We freaked out for a few minutes, then found out that all I had to do was get medically cleared.  The process sounded really difficult, but ended up not being too bad.  I made a physical and dental appointment, then had to be interviewed by a doctor, a case worker, and I think the other woman was a psychologist...  I passed, and then just had to get added to the orders. They told us that then we had to take it to MPF(Military Personnel Flight), but they were closed until tomorrow morning.
     So the next day, we drove down to Hill again (its an hour and a half drive) to get me put on the orders so we could send them to everyone who needed them, get me a flight, get my stuff shipped, and get TLF over there for both of us (not just Colin).  We got there and they told us they couldn't even do it!  They sent us back up to Logan to go to his Detachment up there.  From there they went all the way to AFPC, who both cut orders and gave us a cushy extension! So now I can go too, and we don't have to leave until the 30th of Sept!  Yay!  The movers are coming to pick up our unaccompanied baggage (the stuff that will get there first) on the 8th, and the HHG(Household Goods, basically everything else) will be picked up on the 26 and 27th.  Whew!  We have flights made for the 30th, and a sponsor on the other side in Germany who will be setting everything up on his side.  So everything worked out great, even if it was confusing and frustrating at first!  It also means we have a few more weeks without any pay and without a whole lot to do, other than get ready for the movers.  I'm already getting anxious and ready to be over there!