Crossword clues for quiche
quiche
- Brunch dish
- Lunch dish from the oven
- Brunch pie
- A tart filled with rich unsweetened custard
- Often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)
- A member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala
- The Mayan language spoken by the Quiche people
- ___ Lorraine
- Cheese and bacon pastry dish
- Savoury flan
- Fellow after mainly fast food
- Parisian who introduces revolutionary savoury tart
- Baked flan
- Brunch fare
- Brunch order
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1949, from French quiche (1810), from Alsatian German Küche, diminutive of German Kuchen "cake" (see cake (n.)). Became fashionable 1970s; became contemptible 1980s.
Wiktionary
n. A pie made primarily of eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat or vegetables are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Quiche is a savoury, open-faced pastry crust with a filling of savoury custard with one or more of cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables. Quiche can be served hot or cold. It is part of French cuisine but is also popular in other countries, particularly as party food.
Quiche is a kind of pie with a savory custard filling; quiche lorraine is one variant.
Quiche may also refer to:
- Kishu or Quiche of Tokyo Mew Mew, a manga and anime character
- Quiche Lorraine is a minor character in Bloom County (comic strip)
- Quiche Lorraine is a song by The B-52's
Quiché was Spanish for the Maya ''K'iche' '' and may refer to:
- K'iche' people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya
- K'iche' language, spoken by the K'iche' people
- K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj, pre-Columbian state in Guatemala
- Classical K'iche' language, the 16th century form K'iche'
- Quiché Department of Guatemala, often referred to as El Quiché
- Santa Cruz del Quiché, the administrative seat of that department
Usage examples of "quiche".
Since all but me were vegetarians I had made a dinner of cream of spinach soup with steamed turnip tops, broccoli quiche, asparagus risotto, cauliflower cheese and a mixed salad.
They had been in the middle of choosing between the asparagus tarts and miniature mushroom quiches.
Do you think we should go with the asparagus tarts or mushroom quiches?
The cafe still serves breakfast all day, but the quiche on the menu is as likely to contain porta bello mushrooms as cheddar cheese, the bread is homemade, thick, and filled with goodies like wheat germ and nuts, and the lunch sandwiches are served on baguettes with avocado slices and bean sprouts.
The American nations among whom a distinct and well-authenticated myth of the deluge was found are as follows: Athapascas, Algonkins, Iroquois, Cherokees, Chikasaws, Caddos, Natchez, Dakotas, Apaches, Navajos, Mandans, Pueblo Indians, Aztecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Tlascalans, Mechoacans, Toltecs, Nahuas, Mayas, Quiches, Haitians, natives of Darien and Popoyan, Muyscas, Quichuas, Tuppinambas, Achaguas, Araucanians, and doubtless others.
Aztecs not only conquered a Maya colony, and founded the empire of the Quiches in Central America, a complete body of whose mythology has been brought to light in late years, but seem to have made a marked imprint on the Mayas themselves.
For the present purpose the most significant of these is the Sacred National Book of the Quiches, a tribe of Guatemala.
The Quichuas of Peru must not be confounded with the Quiches of Guatemala.
Muscogees, Athapascas, Quiches, Mixtecs, Iroquois, Algonkins, and others.
The Aztecs not only conquered a Maya colony, and founded the empire of the Quiches in Central America, a complete body of whose mythology has been brought to light in late years, but seem to have made a marked imprint on the Mayas themselves.
The comparatively late introduction of such views into the native legends finds a remarkable proof in the myths of the Quiches, which were committed to writing in the seventeenth century.
Peru, Araucania, the Muyscas, the Quiches, and Tlascala were tetrarchies divided in accordance with, and in the first two instances named after, the cardinal points.
From tribes of both continents and all stages of culture, the Muyscas of Columbia and the Natchez of Louisiana, the Quiches of Guatemala and the Caribs of the Orinoko, instance after instance might be marshalled to illustrate how universally a sacred character was attached to this number, and how uniformly it is traceable to a veneration of the cardinal points.
It is clearly visible in the earlier portions of the legends of the Quiches, and is the more surely of native origin as it has been quite lost on both their translators.
The owl was regarded by Aztecs, Quiches, Mayas, Peruvians, Araucanians, and Algonkins as sacred to the lord of the dead.