Meal: quiche, salad, and quick Irish bread:
Cost per person: $1.60
Time: about 30 minutes, plus baking time for the bread and quiche
Leftovers: a third of the loaf of bread, 1/4 of the quiche
Local ingredients: eggs, cheese, potatoes, milk, whole wheat flour, lettuce, green peppers
Organic ingredients: carrots, all-purpose flour

Last night was movie night with my sister and cousin, and I fell back on an easy favorite: quiche. This version was 8 eggs, 2 cups milk, 1 cup potatoes, and 1 1/3 cup cheese, in an 8×8 pan. I cooked it for the same time and at the same temperatures as the bread, and it turned out great. The salad was our standard lettuce, carrots, and green peppers. I had a lovely hothouse tomato that was just begging to go on the salad - and I forgot it. Whoops.

The bread was something new. I wanted bread to go with the quiche, but the paddle was stuck in our bread pan, and I couldn’t get it out to wash the pan to make the bread. So I went trolling through All Recipes looking for quick bread recipes that didn’t require a pile of ingredients we didn’t have, and settled on this one. I halved the recipe but otherwise followed the directions, and it was great - tasty and dense. We’re out of butter, but it would be fantastic with butter and some preserves, and it’s bread that I can run up for breakfast the same morning I want to seat it. We’ll be making this again.