Quiche delight (Sainsbury's Quiche Lorraine)

Member Name: abbadabbado

Product:	Sainsbury's Quiche Lorraine
Date:	02/06/09 (63 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: tastes lovely

Disadvantages: bad for you

We're eating a lot more salad and cold food with the warmer weather that's hitting the country this week. When the sun is out we tend to eat outside and with that lots of nice goodies seem to appear on our table to go with the salad ingredients.
My OH is a great lover of quiche, and will always encourage me to put these in our trolley. I don't mind buying them but the minute I do they are eaten within one meal between three people and that doesn't present great value for money if we were to have them with every salad.
I have tried to make my own but I am still practising on the art of getting my pastry to taste the same or even marginally like shop bought ones, so until I perfect it, we will continue to buy them.

A quiche Lorraine traditionally hosts bacon and cheese as the predominant fillings. I find these flavours over many of the other varieties on offer give me all the good memories of eating a homemade one from my mum, and I also find the texture to be slightly better than eating say a cheese and onion quiche or a mushroom one.
Sainsbury's offer their quiche Lorraine for £1.89 each, but they are generally on offer for 2 for £3. They tend to have a good shelf life when we get them so needless to say two of them get bought at a time.

The quiche is presented in a foil tray wrapped in a cardboard box. You get a good representation of the product inside the box from the picture on the outside. Its one product that I buy regularly that actually does look like what you will see when you open the box.
Appearance wise, the quiche looks appetising when you first look at it. The pastry crust looks fairly thick and shows that it won't crumble too much when you pick a piece of the quiche up. The filling is set nicely with plenty of bacon bits showing at the surface of the mixture.

I never realised the egg mixture was actually an egg custard until a few months ago. I'm glad I didn't know this as I would have been put off by the name when actually the taste is something completely different to what my brain thinks egg custard should taste like.
The quiche should serve six easily but when you have gannets in our house a quarter of the quiche still isn't enough for one person.
To serve the quiche I usually find quite tricky unless you manage to cut the quiche correctly to start with.
Levering the first slice out, unless gotten right can crumble and leave you with a messy piece on a plate. Thankfully this doesn't happen very often.

I usually find it's easier to eat this quiche using cutlery rather than fingers due to the moistness of the filling.
By getting a piece of pastry as well as filling you are left with a taste combination that sparks off your taste buds on first taste.
A mixture of saltiness from the bacon mixed with a strong cheese, soothes by the crumbly texture of the pastry, makes the quiche almost melt in your mouth. The only trouble is the first taste makes you want more. I can fully understand why it doesn't last long.

Sadly whilst it's gorgeous and tasty, it's not very good for you and contains a lot of fat as you can imagine hosting cheese, egg and butter from the pastry.
A third of a quiche will provide you with 23.4 grams of fat and 342 calories. That's a massive portion of fat from your daily allowance just in a small portion of the quiche.

Overall we all love this quiche and whilst it's not as thick or creamy as the quiches you can buy from the deli that appear twice the thickness, it does compare well to other stores own brand quiches that I have tried.
If you buy two for the monetary value it's always worth knowing that you could freeze the other quiche for later use.

Summary: an addition to your salads