Smitten Kitchen

Posted by: CC Bakes


There are two things that I do very much enjoy. One is a good food blog with great, easy home-cooking recipes. The other is potatoes, in pretty much any form.

So I bring to you a couple of things I love.

The Smitten Kitchen blog – self proclaimed “fearless cooking from a tiny kitchen in New York City”. Smitten Kitchen is very cleverly put together by Deb Perelman, a writer, cook, photographer and occasional dish washer. She is at once master of the pen, the kitchen and also her camera, and documents her own home cooking rigorously, making it very accessible for those far and wide.

So to present this fantastic blog, I feature one of her many great recipes – Blue cheese and red potato tart. This is a simple and humble tart. You can make the pastry yourself, or buy some. To make, place pastry around the tart tin.

Fill with:
6 small red potatoes cooked and sliced (leave skins on)
1 cup of cream
1 egg yolk
3/4 cup of blue cheese
1 tablespoon of chopped herbs (a mix of thyme and rosemary)

Arrange potatoes, overlapping slightly. Sprinkle blue cheese. Whisk cream and egg yolk then pour over tart shell. Sprinkle with herbs and salt and bake until golden brown for an hour.

*images sourced from Smitten Kitchen

Another delicious taste of what comes every Tuesday from CC Bakes.
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