Last night’s dinner was amazing. I LOVED it. And I so meant to take a photo. I’m trying to get better at taking photos of what I cook but I keep forgetting. I was so annoyed with myself when I realised that yet again I’d forgotten. But especially this time when the tart looked perfect. Absolutely 100% perfect. And there’s no evidence.
So a little while back I bought some gruyere cheese. I bought it for a particular recipe that I’d wanted to make for a while but had never got around to making. And ever since I’d had the cheese in the fridge I’ve not been able to find the recipe. This is the only down side to having too many recipe books. I have started a recipe index to help with this but it’s not finished, so it erm…wasn’t very helpful.
So, I had this gruyere cheese and its use by date was fast approaching. So I decided to use it in a pie type dish. I’d never cooked with gruyere before so I looked up a few recipes and picked one for a gruyere and asparagus quiche. I used filo pastry instead of a pie case and called mine a tart (just cause I like the name, and get a good giggle out of trying to imagine my gruyere cheese poking its sexy legs out seductively from under it’s plastic wrapping) and I altered a few other small things.
So, my tart involved some softened spring onions, a few eyes of bacon diced and cooked for a few minutes, 3/4C gruyere, 3/4C cream, 4 large eggs (whisk eggs and cream together before adding the rest to this mixture), the ends of the asparagus (after partial softening), seasoning, all in the pastry then tomatoes and the remainder of the asparagus spears on top. Hot oven for about 25 mins.
And it was heavenly. I don’t usually add cream to my quiches, pies or tarts, preferring them to be a little lighter than that, but I had cream that needed using as well as the offending cheese. Perhaps that’s part of the reason why it was so good, the cream…
Ahhh…..cream……I’m off to day dream about whipped cream now, whipped cream and what? Ah scones with jam and cream for sure….day dreaming away….
My journey in the kitchen 