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Learning Signs Our Family Learning Blog Home About Family Digital Footprint Family Oral History Favorite Sites Minecraft Contact Modified Recipe for Amazing Quiche January 20, 2019 Dad cooking I enjoy cooking and eating quiche, and as I’ve tried a few different recipes I’m feeling comfortable making modifications and “remixes” based on things I have on hand and ingredients I like. Awhile back my mom shared a recipe she called, “Christine’s Quiche,” and that was the basis of the quiche recipe I made today after church. Here’s that original recipe for “Christine’s Quiche,” I combined screenshots from my Paprika iPhone recipe app , using a Google Drawing document and uploaded this to my Flickr Pro account to share this. " Christine’s Quiche Recipe " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer Here are the ingredients I used today: 2 frozen deep dish pie crusts 5 pieces of thick bacon 2 large, cooked Italian sausage links small handful of baby spinich 1/4 of a green bell pepper 1/2 teaspoon of sugar 1/2 teaspoon of Aleppo red pepper 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg 2 cups of shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheese 6 eggs 1/2 cup of whipping cream 1/2 an onion, chopped Fresh, shredded parmesan cheese " Quiche " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer These were my procedures: Fork prick the bottom of the frozen pie crusts, and bake them for 15 minutes in a 400 degrees preheated oven. Remove and cool. Cook bacon and set aside, cut or crumble by hand into small pieces. Saute chopped onion. Put half of broken bacon and half of sautéed onion in each pie shell. Chop up baby spinach and green pepper, put in bottom of pie crust. Chop up cooked Italian sausages, put 1 in each pie crust. Evenly sprinkle jack/cheddar cheese in each pie crust. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese too. In a blender, combine 6 eggs, sugar, nutmeg, and Aleppo pepper. Pour evenly over each pie crust. Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees, then reduce heat to 350 and bake for 35 more minutes. Let rest 10 minutes before cutting. Add sliced tomatoes on top before serving. Turned out pretty good. If I’d planned ahead more, I would have defrosted the crust instead of cooking it first. The way I prepared it, it was a little overcooked but still tasted good. I also think I might have used a little more bacon, left out the sausage, and added more eggs, so maybe prepared the liquid ingredients with 8 eggs instead of just 6. Next time it will be even better! I love cooking for our family. " Quiche " ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer Leave a comment The Family of Twilight (French 2 Project) September 9, 2018 Dad littlesister , school Rachel, who is now a 9th grader, created this poster over the weekend for a geneology project assigned in her French 2 class at Casady . “ The Family of Twilight ” ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer She wrote and typed the script she will share in class tomorrow, and agreed to audio record it for me with English translations tonight. (And she agreed to let me publish it here on our family learning blog !) Here’s the recording as a narrated image , it’s 2 minutes and 12 seconds long: This project was recorded with a quick app smash on my iPhone. I used: The free app PhotoScan by Google Photos (to scan the poster) The free app Squaready (to save the rectangular photo as a square image) The free app Voice Record Pro (to record the audio and export the narrated image as a video to the iPhone camera roll) The free app YouTube (to upload the video to my YouTube channel ) Check out more of Rachel’s projects and work on RachelFryer.com . We still have that WordPress instance set to cross-post from Learning Signs, when her “category” on the blog is selected. At some point in the not-too-distance future I’m betting she’ll want to do a redesign of the site and rebrand it. (She’s recently changed both her Twitter and Instagram channel names, for example.) When she does hopefully I’ll persuade her to maintain / keep / archive all her old work and media projects. Learn more about creating narrated image / narrated art projects like this on ShowWithMedia.com . Leave a comment class , french , project , twilight 9th Grade Posters for French 2 and English August 26, 2018 Dad art , littlesister , school , travel , writing Here are a couple posters Rachel created recently for her first week back at school, and first week as a high school freshman. Here’s a poster she created for French class about her summer holidays / vacation / break. That’s a great looking skyline of Seattle, Washington! “ My Break (in French) ” ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer Here is another poster she created, this time for 9th grade English class. Students were ask to sketch a scene from “The Alchemist,” which was one of their summer reading books. “ The Alchemist Excerpt ” ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer We definitely have a talented artist in our home! Leave a comment South Carolina Pimento Cheese Recipe April 1, 2018 Dad cooking This is an amazing recipe my mom shared with us awhile back, and we enjoyed again this weekend over Easter. It’s VERY important you purchase “ Duke ‘s Mayonnaise” instead of another brand. Fortunately, our local WalMart now carries Duke ‘s Mayonnaise. This is as good or better than any cheeseball I’ve ever had, and in case you didn’t know… I’ve had more than a few! Put this on Ritz crackers and you’ll love it. Your guests will too. Thanks Mom! “ South Carolina Pimento Cheese ” ( CC BY 2.0 ) by Wesley Fryer South Carolina Pimento Cheese – 1.5 lb sharp orange cheddar, coarsely grated – .5 lb Vermont white sharp cheddar, coarsely grated – ½ jar roasted red peppers, drained and chopped – 2 green onions, finely chopped (use both the green and the white parts) – 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper – ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper – Dash of Tabasco, optional – Duke ‘s Mayonnaise, to moisten & hold it together Combine all ingredients in a large bowl with a rubber spatula. Cover & chill to let flavors blend. (Do not combine all in a food processor!) Do not use pre-grated cheeses. May change cheese proportions as desired & still be “authentic.” Leave a comment cheese , recipe Learning Signs Podcasts Migrated and Backed Up to Podiant October 10, 2017 Dad dad , technology Over the past 10+ years our family members have recorded a lot of podcast episodes in different places using different apps and websites. My all-time favorite remains AudioBoom (previously AudioBoo) where we still have 227 episodes available online . Some of my favorites there include: “USS Arizona Impressions” (very touching spiritual insights from a 6 year old) “Flamingos at the zoo” (hilarious example of why we need to ask others to check their perceptions of reality, and why when audio recording with kids “the good stuff usually comes at the end”) “Why I am Mulan for Halloween” (just plain cute) “Hallelujah – I’m Ready! by The Soggy Bottom Boys of Edmond” (one of the best days of our Friday morning men’s group EVER!) We also recorded a few podcasts over the years using the iPhone app Opinion , which (like AudioBoom) provided free podcast audio file hosting. As of November 1, 2017, however, Opinion is discontinuing its hosting. For that reason, I migrated our family podcasts on Opinion over to Podiant , so they are now accessible on learningsigns.podiant.co . This was a wonderfully easy (and FREE) process, since we could directly import all the audio files and meta info from the RSS feed. (Episode titles, episode art, podcast show art, etc.) Just in case AudioBoom goes offline at some point, and to have a backup, I also imported all our AudioBoom podcasts over to Podiant , so those are now available on audioboom.podiant.co . I am OVER THE MOON with how easy this import and migration process was and is with Podiant ! A thousand thank you’s to Joe Dale ( @joedale ) who alerted me to Podiant, and to Mark Steadman ( @iamsteadman ), the creator and developer of Podiant. Another alternative platform with podcast import functionality (but not free) is Fireside . I’ve added both of the...