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Ladies Who Brunch: Our Exclusive Quick and Easy Quiche Recipe for the Holidays

Bring the elegance of personally etched marble to your table with our white Marble Lazy Susan.  Showcasing the personalization you specify, the sleek 12″ diameter lazy Susan features a smooth rotating base. Makes a great hostess gift. $42.99.   Comes in black marble too.

 

Thinking about throwing a quick brunch during the holidays?  Baking a delicious, savory Quiche Lorraine is always a good idea!  A perennial holiday favorite around the globe, especially on a cold, snowy day, quiche is not only delicious, it looks fancy and is super-easy to make.  From our kitchen to yours, here’s a traditional family recipe from Lillian Vernon.

Ingredients:

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
6 slices bacon cooked crispy
1 onion, minced
4 eggs, whisked
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups shredded Swiss cheese
bunch of baby arugula
yellow cherry tomatoes
olive oil & lemon to dress the salad

 

Directions:  Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Bake frozen pie crust in oven for about eight minutes, do not let edges brown.

Cook bacon until crisps. Crumble and set aside. Sautee onion in skillet until tender.

In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and salt.  Add bacon and onion.  Toss cheese and flour together in a separate bowl, and then add to eggs and mix well. Pour egg mixture into pie crust.

Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until knife inserted in center of quiche comes out clean. Let stand for 10 minutes.  Before serving top with baby arugula, and cherry tomatoes drizzled in lemon and olive oil.

 

Check out our other great ideas to show off at your brunch…They also make great gifts!

 

 

If you’re on a budget, you can still serve great-looking wine!  Impress your guests by serving friends from a custom-labeled bottle of wine. Created exclusively for Lillian Vernon by calligrapher Jillian Yee-Pham, these elegant wine labels come monogrammed in your choice of several timeless designs. Use them over the holidays, for special occasion dinners, and on gift bottles—or choose a set as a thoughtful gift for the wine connoisseur on your list.  Only $9.99 for a set of 36!  Shop HERE for all of our wine label designs.

 

 

 

Our exclusive, Personalized Cocktail Napkins combine the look and feel or starched linen with the ease of disposability. Many are designed just for us by Jillian Yee-Pham of 2 Hearts B 1. Set of 125, $24.99 or two or more sets for $19.99. Shop HERE to browse our full collection.

Beautiful white & gold lacquered Hand Towel and cocktail napkin holders, $19.99 and $17.99

 

 An impressive design for occasions formal to casual and special to everyday, our exclusive, multi-use Personalized Hand Towels can be used in the dining room, kitchen or powder room. Most designed by Jillian Yee-Pham of 2 Hearts B1. $34.99 for set of 100 or $29.99 for two or more sets. Shop HERE to see the full collection. With the look and feel of starched linen this handy helper combines with the ease of disposability for an attractive, soft, absorbent towel. Set of 100 pre-folded towels.

Antique White Ceramic Towel Holder adds contemporary elegance to bath or kitchen. Bottom tray raises guest towels up off any water on the sink surface; keeps napkins dry, organized, and easily accessible on kitchen table or countertop, too. Can also be used as a catch-all for jewelry or for your bedside.  Makes the perfect, inexpensive gift.  $16.99

Presentation is a piece of cake with our versatile, Domed Acacia Wood Server.  Use it for a pie, cake or cupcakes, or to display several desserts at once, such as cookies and brownies.  When not in use for baking, make a pretty fruit display of mandarins, collect shiny ornaments in a bowl, add magnolia sprigs, and cover them to make a holiday centerpiece.  You can even use it to display cheeses, nuts, bread and dried fruit.   Buy it HERE 

 

 

 

napkins

Nothing says celebrate like our elegant gold, Initial Dot Red Pepper cloth dinner napkins, all-cotton, $6.99 each or $5.99 for two or more.  Add some flair to your table with our Hobnail Glass CandleEnjoy the scent of red currants and cranberries colliding with cedar wood, Frasier fir and embers. Exhilarating and cozy. Hand-poured in the USA. Use as a beautiful vase when the candle is finished. $32.99

Bring unexpected fun to your brunch with our exclusive Conversation Starter Place Cards designed by Jillian Yee-Pham.  Set of 18 with nine fun and interesting rotating questions.  Available in Everyday (shown above) or Christmas theme.  Only $4.99 for a set.

 

Shop all of our Personalized Holiday Gifts HERE

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