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Chocolate Pecan Tart
For folks who like to cook and entertain, Thanksgiving dinner is kind of our Olympics. We are decathletes of starch and sugar and tryptophan, and Turkey Day is the ultimate endurance race. The day after, though, there are no laurel … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Christmas, dessert, fall, pecans, tart, Thanksgiving, winter
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Tomato Tart Niçoise
The tomatoes are finally shining around here, and I’ve been serving them up in plain slabs, naked and unadorned save for a dusting of salt and pepper. After awhile, I figured even perfect tomatoes might like to get a little … Continue reading
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Tagged anchovy, baked, baking, capers, caramelized onions, early fall, first course, Mediterranean, Nicoise, olives, pescetarian, puff pastry, savory, simple, summer, tart
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Fresh Fig Tart
Figs first arrived in California by way of the Mediterranean, cultivated by Franciscan missionaries along the Camino Real (“Royal Road”, in Spanish), a 600-mile thoroughfare that linked the missions, pueblos and presidios. These days, El Camino Real bears more Silicon … Continue reading
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Tagged almonds, baked, baking, Black Mission, dessert, dough, fall, figs, fresh, fresh figs, fruit, italian, pasta frolla, pie, simple, summer, tart
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Sweet Cherry Tart
Nothing beats a bowl of fresh-picked cherries all on their own, but I’ll put this tart solidly in second place. With its crisp, cookie-like almond crust and jammy fruit filling, it’s an unfussy dessert that tastes simply of sweet cherries … Continue reading
Almond Tart
This buttery almond tart was served on opening night of the fabled Chez Panisse, the Berkeley restaurant that’s credited with inventing California cuisine and considered the forebear of the modern farm-to-table movement. You’ve heard of Alice Waters? Of course you … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Waters, almonds, baking, Chez Panisse, dessert, dough, elegant, Lindsey Shere, pastry, simple, sweet tart dough, sweets, tart
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Caramelized Onion & Goat Cheese Tart
Oh, caramelized onions. How do I love thee? Swimming in the darkly savory broth of a French onion soup, tangled up in gruyére. Nested on top of a burger like a sweet-savory crown. On a slab of baguette with a … Continue reading
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Tagged appetizer, caramelized onions, chevre, entree, first course, fluted tart pan, goat cheese, hors d'oeuvres, ode to the onion, pablo neruda, savory, tart, thyme, vegetarian
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