leek and onion tart
Most Saturday’s I walk around to my local greengrocers and stock up on fruit and veg for the week. They have an excellent selection. The prices are a little more expensive than the supermarket, but they stock more varieties of vegetables and the quality is top notch. They also get in a lot of local produce, which I like to see.
Yesterday I bought some locally grown leeks and mushrooms. So I was pleased to see a recipe on Daisy’s blog for a Leek and Onion Tart, it sounded like a perfect use for those leeks. I cooked the tart this evening for dinner and it was absolutely scrumptious. Truly delectable. It was so good, I even went back to the pie dish for seconds.
I strayed from the recipe slightly because I had only single cream, rather than the double cream called for. To bring the egg and cream mixture up to the desired consistency I added a few good dollops of ricotta cheese instead and lightly whisked the lot together. The delicate creamy taste of the ricotta perfectly complemented the more intense flavour of the leeks.
When I’m making a pie or a tart, I always aim to make a little bit too much pastry. Purely so that I can whip up a currant pasty or, as seen here, some jam tarts. Yum.
The only drawback to all this is that I spent the whole evening pottering around in the kitchen and didn’t realise that I’d forgotten to put the kitchen clock forwards by one hour last night. It wasn’t until I sat down to eat that I realised it was half past nine, rather than half past eight. Oops.
Blue Witch says:
I haven’t seen jam tarts made form excess pastry since my grandmother died. Lovely memory. My excess pastry always gets slowly dried out for the hens.
Blue Witch spoke at 20:34 UTC on March 27th, 2006 link
Richard says:
My grandmother used to do it too. And my mother used to do it when I was a kid, but she pretty much stopped baking once she started working again after my brother and I got past primary school age. I keep up the tradition though, as it is a fine tradition.
I guess I’m showing my age there, having a mother who was at home all through my primary school years. A rare thing these days, I suppose.
Richard spoke at 22:36 UTC on March 27th, 2006 link
Daisy says:
Yours looks so much nicer than mine! Not sure if I mentioned it but we had it cold the next day (yum!) and on impulse I put a dollop of lime pickle to the side of Martyn’s. He declared it the nicest thing he’d ever eaten. Blush.
Daisy spoke at 00:31 UTC on April 2nd, 2006 link