My favorite anytime-of-the-year color combination is red and orange, the colors that come to life when you join persimmon with pomegranate, cranberry with orange, kumquat with rhubarb, cherry with apricot, watermelon with cantaloupe, or peach with plum. Standing alone in a … [Read more...]
Apple Cranberry Crumble Tart
Mercedes Rick Apple Cranberry Crumble Tart Named in honor of our good friend and very first paying customer -- what a fitting name! This tart is the S Class of apple tarts: 4 wheel drive Sweet Tart Crust for reaching every corner of your pallet, twin turbo charged with 2 … [Read more...]
Golden Cream and Apple Tart
The tart that got me hired After two years of working at restaurants as a pastry assistant, I thought, probably naively, that I was ready to graduate to pastry chef. I fell in love with Café Chenville the moment I walked in the door. It was full of charm and the small open … [Read more...]
Huckleberry Tart or Blueberry Tart
I like to call Missoula, MT, my sister city. When I was nine my mother drove me and my brother to Montana in an OLD Peugeot she’d bought for $75 dollars. A friend of hers got it running, my mother reupholstered the seats and off we went. It took us three days to get there, … [Read more...]
Sweet Tart Dough
Once you find a good crust recipe, I think you should stick with it. There are hundreds of tart crust recipes out there—some with nuts, cornmeal, or coconut. While occasionally you may want to use a different crust, just to mix things up a bit, it is comforting to have a tried … [Read more...]