Easter Leftovers Day 3 - Quiche!

I love a good quiche, it makes a nice lunch or dinner, and is even great for breakfast. However, other than the mini quiches I make for my Christmas Cocktail party (recipe here) I don't often cook quiche at home. But, there are only so many things I know to do with leftover ham, and after cooking a 17 lb ham for 6 adults on Saturday, and giving lots away, I needed to do something! The pea soup was great, and enough for me to freeze for a few more meals. I did the same with the quiche, doubled the recipe and made two - one for tonight and one to freeze and reheat later. I used Tenderflake's Deep Dish Pie Crusts, and for the cheese I just grated what I had in the fridge - a little Fontina, some old cheddar, and a bit of mozzarella. The recipe below is for a single quiche, but is easily doubled and modified.

Post Easter Split Pea Soup

One of the things I miss about living at my parents house is soup after holiday dinners. At Christmas I'm usually home long enough to get in on the turkey soup, however I haven't had my mom's split pea soup in years. This year I decided to try and make my own. As I sometimes do I looked through a few different cookbooks and online recipes and came away with the basic idea, and went from there. The key for me was having saved the bone from the ham I roasted for Easter dinner, and using that to make the stock.

Back To Work - Freezer Meals

I headed back to work this week after a blissful (and busy) year off on maternity leave. In anticipation, I spent some time filling the freezer with ready made meals. It was quite funny, because a year earlier I had been doing the same thing in preparation for baby's arrival. How quickly the time does pass!

Life is busy, and when things start spinning out of control, making healthy choices can seem difficult. For me, taking the time to eat well and try and get at least a bit of exercise every day is a great way to manage stress. With that in mind, we froze some mini lasagna's, pasta sauce, chicken burritos, perogies and I picked up a few containers of soup from The Soup Meister in the Lonsdale Quay. Even though I've only been back for 3 days and there's still one day of the week left, so far so good. I seem to have enough time to get home, pick up the little bean from daycare, play for a bit and get dinner ready so that we can all sit down and eat together. Brent had a great idea for us to set aside one night a week to make something for the freezer, so we can keep this up. We'll be starting that next week and I hope that this will help get us through the next couple of months of learning how to juggle work, school, baby and all the other parts of our life.