Recipes for quiche don’t have to be daunting – just take the time to make homemade pastry for a crispy slice of nostalgia. I let my dough get to warm and stretchy (zoinks!), repaired the rips with the pinch method, & par baked it, and then had disaster when I tried to take it out of the oven and half the crust broke off! I was just talking with an older male co-worker who grew up in South Philly and he said that this was his favorite pie, but he didn’t have a recipe.

You can use fresh spinach (you’d probably need twice as much) but you’d need to squeeze it dry just like the frozen. The recipe below is lightly adapted from Gural’s; some proportions changed ever so slightly in the transition from metric to conventional American measurements, and I used a standard round pie plate instead of Arcade …