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Fig, Walnut and Blue Cheese Galette

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

A galette is the answer to anyone who finds pastry intimidating. It is a tart that has given up on perfection, a single round of dough loaded with filling and folded roughly over itself, then baked free-form on a tray. No tin, no blind baking, no fretting over neat edges. The rougher it looks, the better. This particular galette pairs ripe figs with salty blue cheese, toasted walnuts and a thread of honey, and the result is the kind of sweet-savoury thing that works equally well as a light supper, a starter, or the centrepiece of a lazy weekend lunch.

Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart with Thyme Pastry

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Tomato tarts have a way of looking effortless and tasting like summer, which is exactly why they get made on the days when summer is being stingy with its tomatoes. A wan, watery tart is one of life’s small disappointments, all soggy pastry and pale fruit. The fix is not to wait for perfect tomatoes; it is to teach ordinary ones to behave. You roast them low and slow until they collapse into something dense and jammy and twice as sweet, and suddenly a midweek punnet from the corner shop tastes like the south of France.