And so, drum roll please, Miss T presents Playing With Pastry, a retrospective of her recent forays into the freezer. Miss T declines to enter into detailed descriptions of individual items, most creations having been made from a combination of ready-made pestos, tomato paste, Dijon mustard, asparagus, tinned cherry tomatoes, olive oil, Maldon sea salt, cracked pepper and whatever else was in the fridge, thus creating a generally uniform taste.
Johanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe has written a lovely and very informative post about asparagus over here. She has included some wonderful recipes and fascinating historical detail - just my kind of thing! Unfortunately I am only capable of one contribution on the subject of asparagus and it's not nearly as tasty or well-researched as hers (but in my opinion, quite intriguing): did you know that not everyone can smell asparagus wee? If you are arching your eyebrows in surprise, then you can smell it. If you don't know what I mean and wondering what kind of foul troll I am, you can't. Wikipedia has even mentioned it so it must be true.
So without further ado ... Playing with Pastry!
Attempt 1: I used lotsa asparagus ...
... and lots of sea salt ...
... and this is what happened when I put cashews and King Valley coriander pesto in the food processor! Tee hee!
Attempt 2: Here is a more pie-like pastry which I had fun wrapping up and pretending I was being all homey and hearty like Nigella (but without the kitchen food porn).
Attempt 3: A very Christmassy looking tart. Got a bit soggy with all the tomato juice but it made me feel all cheery and geometrical. I used chilli and tomato King Valley pesto with Dijon for the base and sprinkled some Parmazano on top.
Attempt 4: Using up some antipasto and piling on the pepper. King Valley watercress and cashew pesto, tomato paste and Dijon mustard for the base.
5 comments:
Yum yum yum - I lurve puff pastry!
Looks like you've mastered the savoury delicacy. Don't forget that it's good with sweet stuff too! :-)
What are you talking about? That pie shot is total Nigella-style food pron. Beautiful pics of beautiful food, and I'm wishing I had some of that cherry tomato and asparagus number for breakfast right now.
I love the Christmassy looking tart! I think I might try something like that this year!
Oh, that apple tart looks gooooood, Cindy .., and I even have some pastry left ... uh huh!
I have to say I've been totally surprised at how dead easy it is to make this stuff when the pastry's pre-rolled ... I think these might be those dishes that look impressive enough to whip out and pretend that you're just fabulous!
I have been doing a lot of stuff with the Borg's pastry lately! My favourite is making berry or apple danish, and rolling sausages in them to make sausage rolls (SO GOOD).
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