The Perfect Quiche in Your Longaberger Pie Plate

Longaberger's Grandma Bonnie's Pie Plate makes everything better!  This quiche recipe is a family favorite that simply must be baked in Longaberger's Woven Traditions pottery. 

Quiche

1 lb sausage, fried and drained

1 c shredded Swiss cheese

1 c shredded Cheddar cheese

two 3-oz cans mushrooms, cut up

4 to 5 eggs (I use 4)

1 c Half & Half

small amount chopped onion

small amount chopped green pepper

Place pie crust in Grandma Bonnie's Pie Plate (I use Pillsbury refrigerated crust).  Mix ingredients together and pour into unbaked pie shell.  Bake at 375 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes.

Mom bakes at least four of these quiches every year for Christmas breakfast, leaving the mushrooms out of one, and that gathering and breakfast is a beloved family tradition for all.  Since frying the sausage and baking the quiche are slow processes, Mom mixes up the ingredients the night before and can then just pour them into the shells and bake that morning.

Want All These Longaberger Products . . . & a Fun Career?

Love of Longaberger products is often what draws new consultants to a Longaberger career, and that was exactly my motivation 27 years ago.  If you love these baskets and pottery pieces, enjoy using and sharing them, and have fun sharing your passions with others, a Longaberger career will be perfect for you!

  

Can you believe the entire Business Essentials Plus Kit pictured above, all 12 products, can be yours for only $264?  This thoughtfully-chosen, perfect sampling of Longaberger products offers a taste of every product line plus different pottery and basket stain colors at an incredible price.  You'll find it easy and fun to use these products in your home and share them with friends and family.  

Consider the Many Benefits of a Longaberger Career (on the menu to the right) will give you more information.  Please click there and then feel free to contact me if I can answer any questions.

Carry Your Longaberger Baking Dish in Style!

Want a wonderful, colorful Baking Dish that will become your favorite dish ever? Everyone loves Longaberger's Woven Traditions Pottery, and the 9" x 13" Baking Dish is no exception.  Here's one of my favorite ways to carry it:  atop a Medium Market Basket.  The Dish sits securely in the top of the basket, with space below to hold other items you're bringing along, and the handles still swing up to carry with ease.

Longaberger has created many different Medium Market Baskets over the years, and each one will hold the Baking Dish, whether its the fun summery Watermelon Medium Market, the festive Santa Belly one, the Americana or Texas Flag Medium Market . . . there have been many beautiful variations woven using this same basket form.  The Pewter stain Spring Weave Medium Market is shown above.

Click on and look through my Older Posts to find a tasty Mexican Dip to carry in your Dish with the chips carried in the basket below (March 11, 2016) and a list of other uses for the Medium Market Basket (March 14, 2016).

My retired Baking Dish shown above (in Paprika) is slightly more rounded than the current Dish offered.  The new Dish has squarer corners, which many prefer over this one, but will still have the same beautiful color and fit in the basket just as well.

Spending a Few Moments with Dave Longaberger

The Collector's Club Field Trip gathering in April was a wonderfully fun event held at Longaberger Homestead in Ohio.  After weaving, shopping, listening, visiting, eating, meeting, and shopping some more, I had a few moments before the final drawings in the afternoon.  I went to the Dave Longaberger Memorial at the Homestead and enjoyed some quiet moments watching the happiness of the Collectors Club members from afar, listening to the bluegrass music backed by the trickling water of the memorial, and knowing that Dave would've enjoyed all of it.

How Did the Barn Basket Turn Out?

The Longaberger Barn Basket that I wove at the Collectors Club Field Trip in April has barn-door accent splints and a unique barn-roof handle shape. Longaberger is definitely celebrating America's farming roots this summer, with returning baskets like the Measuring, Fruit, Berry, and Gathering Baskets that were originally used on Ohio farms . . . but not in the fun, bright stain colors Longaberger offers this summer!

The beautiful lid was available at the Homestead, as well as a fun tractor cut-out.  The Barn Basket was definitely different from the other (probably 6-8) Longaberger baskets I've woven over the years.  However, the camaraderie with a weaver and excitement of creating something beautiful and useful remains the same with each weaving experience. From the music to the activities, Longaberger's Collectors Club event was a happy place to be.

Longaberger Is All About Happiness

Can you buy happiness?  No, but you can create it yourself.  What makes you happy?  I'm happy when meeting and eating with family and friends, enjoying quiet time at home, learning new things, reading, cooking (sometimes), and doing other everyday things.
While speaking at Longaberger's Collectors Club Field Trip in April, John Rochon Jr. shared the idea that the best product that Longaberger offers is happiness. Before you laugh at that, think about it.  If you have Longaberger products, do they make you in some way happy?  If you are a Collectors Club member, do those special events and offers make you happy?  If you're a Consultant or Leader, do you have many friends and memories that make you happy?  Sure you do!  I think Rochon is right.  I'm impressed he was able to put it that simply. 

Longaberger has given me lots of happiness.  This might seem crazy, what I'm 'bout to say:  From the friends I've made to the things I've seen and the places I've been (and with a houseful of baskets and pottery!), my Longaberger experience has been unusually happy.  Come be happy with us!

Weaving My Longaberger Red Barn Basket with Molly

There's nothing like weaving a Longaberger Basket yourself, or at least with a little help from a skilled Longaberger artisan.  I attended Longaberger's Collectors Club Field Trip at Longaberger Homestead in April, where weaver Molly Slate helped me create the perfect keepsake:  My own Red Barn Basket.  

 Weaving at the Homestead is so special.  You get to work with a friendly Longaberger weaver, learn about her or his favorite baskets, hear a good story or two, meet nearby weavers, imagine what it might be like to have this special skill and career, and head home with a wonderful memory that you can also use.  Molly was patient, friendly, and fun.

I'm sure Molly and the other weavers have to assist some guest weavers more than others, and I needed lots of help!  It was another wonderful Longaberger experience.  I'll be watching for Molly's initials on baskets I receive in the future.  Although you had to attend this event to weave a Red Barn Basket, there are other choices to make.  If you travel to Longaberger Homestead or attend a Longaberger event such as the Basket Bee (Longaberger's annual convention), you too can make your own American treasure.