“When I made chicken for my kids, they never finished it, and nobody wanted to eat the leftovers the next day.” Anna recounted. 

Hearing her dilemma, a friend passed on a recipe for a versatile chicken quiche suitable for the whole family to enjoy. 

She gave it a go, so to speak, and Saturday’s chicken found its way into a quiche for a Sunday lunch staple that satisfied all three of her children. 

“It’s simple to make, because people have leftovers all the time. You can add whatever you want into it,” she explained, recalling how the family’s weekend bacon leftovers, rich and pleasantly fatty, frequently made their way into the casserole tin. 

When I asked her when she learned how to cook, Anna laughed.
“If you ask my children, they’ll tell you I never learned,” she remarked dryly. “I’m a terrible cook.”

All the more satisfying, then, that her chicken quiche was so warmly received. The dish is what she names as one of her two culinary successes, along with a recipe for spaghetti sauce passed on by her Italian mother-in-law (“When you marry an Italian, you have to be able to cook something of theirs,” she commented). 

“It was great just to be able to tell them, ‘See, I told you I’d have you eating leftover chicken,’” she said. “‘And look how good it tastes.”