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projectmothra and I have just finished a fine dinner of limeade and The Most Complicated Quiche-Like Thing Ever.

We started with an all-butter, slightly whole-wheat crust (no shortening in the house, and enough whole wheat flour for about 1/4 of the flour volume rather than the 1/2 I'd used from first principles), rolled into a 9 inch cake pan.

We added a rather large amount of a mix of smoked gouda, kefalotiri (made with a mix of ewe and goat milks), and a domestic goat cheese.

We layered artichoke hearts on that, and leftover sweet collard greens with bacon from a local barbeque joint. We chopped up a bunch of leftover shrimp and threw them on there too. We layered on some dill and parsley from the little herb garden on my porch.

We scrambled a duck egg, a brown chicken egg, and a blue chicken egg, and added milk, salt, and pepper. Then we added some creamed spinach and turnip greens that we had made from last night's CSA take. We mixed that all up and poured it on top.

Products from seven different animals in there.

Then we baked it until the crust was lightly browned and the center was firm.

It was completely awesome. I ate about half a slice more than I should have, plus some of the crust from