I’ll cheerfully confess: I like to eat. Except for raw onions, cilantro, and most fish, I’m an easy (and pretty cheap) date.

I also do maybe 90% of the cooking in our house. It started when my wife was regularly pregnant, and cooking odors were difficult for her. So I got the job, and while I’m not a fancy cook, I modestly think I’m pretty good at it.

What I don’t like are really elaborate, time consuming meal preps. It’s kind of depressing to spend two hours cooking and have your eaters all done in twenty minutes.

Most cooking writers make recipes way too complicated. The dirty, dark secret of why?

It enables them to sell more cookbooks or online subscriptions.

Quiche is an easy, healthy food that most people like pretty well. The barrier is often that it takes so long to make the crust. Here’s an easy way to get that crust done quickly.

1. Have six teaspoons of butter at room temperature. Soft and squishy, but not melted.
2. Directly in your pie plate, mix 1 cup of regular flour (I use white, all purpose) and half a teaspoon of salt. Mix those together.
3. Add the butter. Using your fingers, mix it all up. It will probably have the consistency of peas. Spread it out in the pan, covering the bottom and sides.
4. Bake this at 350 for 10-15 minutes or until it’s light brown. Remove from oven and let it cool a bit.
5. This can be used for any pie, sweet or savory. But here’s your free quiche recipe.
6. In the pie pan, put some grated cheese, and whatever else you want: cooked bacon, leftover meats, cooked vegetables, or nothing at all besides the cheese
7. Mix (blender, maybe?) 5 eggs, and 1 cup of cream and some salt and pepper. Don’t have any cream? Milk probably works, though it won’t be as good. Pour the mixture over the cheese and bake at 350 for maybe 30 minutes. Please don’t overcook this, and don’t ask why I’m warning you.
8. Serve hot or – better – let it rest and serve at room temperature. Leftovers are not unwelcome as well.