I Made This

I did however make this:

It's a sweet potato and Pecorino-Romano quiche.  I more or less made this up.  The quiche was a mistake -- I had been dreaming about making a nice, baked, egg-based dish, and I think I meant a frittata or a tortilla, but I told my friend Molly I would make quiche for a Japanese-themed brunch she was hosting.  Then I realized quiche means pie crust, which sounds like a hassle, doesn't it?  It turned out to be really easy.      

I freely adapted from this, which is the best cookbook.  Seriously, it's my favorite cookbook.  Joy of Cooking is good as a reference work and I do own a lot of other cookbooks (an inordinate number, really, for someone who rarely cooks), but this is the best one.  I used the recipe for Golden Cauliflower Quiche, but then I used sweet potatoes instead of cauliflower, because sweet potatoes seemed more Japanese; the Pecorino-Romano instead of Longhorn Cheddar, to offset the sweetness of the potatoes; plain yogurt instead of mayonnaise because mayonnaise in a quiche is just gross.  -- Pete