This week's
Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook
Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, is
French Pear Tart, can be found on pages 368-369 (and page 444 for the tart crust recipe), and was chosen by
Dorie Greenspan herself! If you would like to try the recipe before buying the book, click on Dorie's site above and she will have it posted today. She also has a question and answer guest post at the TWD site today. How fun is this that Dorie was excited to pick the recipe this week? Yep, kinda fun, and very gracious of her to do so.
First of all, I don't really think that my entry this week is a great interpretation of Dorie's recipe, actually, not even what I would call "good," but rather something I call "Good Enough for Right Now," as I have been ill and am still not well enough to drive to the store to chose ingredients or even stand upright from the beginning to end of a recipe non-stop yet.
My guys are absolutely great about millions of things, and I am very appreciative each and every day of all they do, but let's just say shopping for cooking ingredients would not be high on (or maybe even make) the list.
I haven't posted for two weeks due to what I thought was going to be a vacation, but turned out quite differently, so I am skating on thin ice here on the "you must post two out of four of the weeks or be yanked off the list" rule...relying on Matt and Mark was a necessity.
I explained very carefully that I needed pears...Dorie's recipe said that canned pears would be fine, and that was actually the preferred ingredient from the originator of the recipe. I figured I was probably safer asking them to score canned food rather than fresh...that they would absolutely be immobilized staring at more than one color/type/shape of pear at the market.
Yep, I specifically said, "Two LARGE cans of PEAR HALVES...." (figuring I would select the nicest and firmest ones to use out of the two cans). It was 50/50...they managed the pear halves part, but they got these really small cans, hence really small pears, tiny, tiny pears, and as you can see...I used about nine of them and they still didn't fill up the tart pan. Oh, well, they tried, and for that effort alone, we shall just say that they are wonderful wonderful men.
The taste? Terrific. Really...very very nice. And, I kinda like the little tiny pears in there as the stuff all around them tastes like an almond cookie, and what is not to love about that?
This was an easy recipe...I am sure it would go much better had I actually been feeling well, but not a bad recipe to tackle when you aren't. The photos are way inferior as I didn't have my normal camera...the actual tart looked better than the photos show. Try the recipe...I think you'll like it! I will give it another go when I am better and can pick out fresh pears, etc. All things considered, the tiny tiny pears were really tasty...and you all know how I like little tiny desserts, so this was just right!
Next week's recipe was chosen by Rebecca of Ezra Pound Cake and is Savory Corn and Pepper Muffins, which can be found on page 6.
Click here and then click on individual bakers' blogs at the site if you would like to see more of this week's recipe and the various ways people interpreted their quest. It is too late to join the online TWD baking blog, but you can always join us in spirit as the recipes for upcoming weeks are posted on the site and you can bake along in your own kitchen. See you there!