Pastel de Cebolla/Onion Pie

My husband says I'm the only person in history to get along with my mother-in-law.  But look at what she can do! She can cook onion pies, make curtains, lend out chicken cages, and whip my dog into shape.  This is a recipe she got from her mother-in-law, who got it from her mother, who got it from a Guatemalan woman.  I'm back at work now, so I'm stockpiling food over the weekends.  This is a good lunch to take to work.  It's sort of like a double-crust quiche and it fills the kitchen with goodbad smells.  Like onions and bacon fat.  Yeah.

If you don't like savory stuff, you can leave the sugar out of the crust. 

Onion Pie

Crust:                                                                            Filling:

2 1/2 c. flour                                                                 3 eggs

1 tsp. salt                                                                      salt and pepper

2 eggs                                                                           1 c. cream

1/2 c. sugar                                                                   4 oz. parmesan cheese

1/2 c. milk                                                                     1 lb. onions, cut in thin half circles

1/4 c. shortening                                                            1/2 lb. bacon

1/4 c. butter

**  Boil the onions in water for half an hour.  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.



the filling



**  Combine crust ingredients.  Divide dough into 2 lumps, one slightly larger than the other.  Roll the lumps out into circles.  Put the larger circle in the bottom of a pie pan, crimping the edges.  Cut the second circle into strips and set aside. 


 

**  Fry the bacon.  Strain off the fat.  Take the onions from the boiling water and add them to the bacon.  Continue to fry until the onions are nicely fried.  Strain off any extra fat. 



Nana started telling us how to
do it so she was put to work!



**  Add the eggs, cream, salt and pepper, and parmesan to the onion mixture.  Stir to combine.

**  Pour mixture into pie crust.  Weave the crust strips over the top.

**  Cook at 350 degrees for one hour.

Goodbad Smells and Other Confusion

Sometimes

life gets confusing.

Is something funny

like hahaha

or funny like weird?

If the quiche got funny

it's funny bad.

Bacon smells good

but it's bad.

Broccoli smells bad

but it's good.

Inhaling gasoline fumes = bad

but they smell good.

Whip-its are funny hahaha

but they smell funny bad.

Not that I know anything about that.

I have friends

at Dairy Queen.