This is exactly like a Goat's Cheese and Caramelised Onion Tart (s) but I have taken a picture of the caramelised onions with my camera so they have become cameralised. See!
This weekend has again been all about cooking and also Autumn clothes. I have bought some rather lovely shorts which I believe are 'on trend'. I don't know if they are at all but I think if I tell enough people they will be.Also I don't know if 'on trend' is the right phrase to use but someone gave me a free ELLE at the beginning of the week so I have been pretending to be a fashion editor.
For your tart you will need:
Puff Pastry (don't bother farting around making it, no-one really does except for maybe Nigella Lawson but she's got loads of money ergo more spare time for pastry making)
3 Red Onions (you could use white if you ABSOLUTELY had to, but red are tastier, yumyumyum)
Goats Cheese (from a Goat is best)
Olive Oil
Peppers (I'd go for red or yellow if I was you)
Smoked bacon (2 pieces)
Spinach (just some, however much you want)
Rocket. (not an actual rocket, the salad stuff, but if you do have an actual rocket or a toy rocket, take a picture and send it in!)
To make
Firstly caramelise your onions. To do this cover the bottom of a frying pan - non stick is best - with olive oil and put in your roughly chopped onions. Leave for around 45 mins, gently stirring, add a bit of salt halfway in.
If they stick to the bottom of the pan then scrape the burn off and include in the onion mixture. Delicious burn! Then gently fry two pieces of cut up bacon in the caremalised onion juice. I mainly cut up things like bacon and spaghetti with scissors - much quicker and more efficient!
Next....Roll out the pastry and cover a tart dish or little tart dishes with some puff pastry - enough to cover. Then pop in the oven for 10 mins or so.
Take out and flatten the bottom which will have puffed out like a puffer jacket. Spoon on caramelised onions, fried bacon and chopped up red peppers then crumble over the goats cheese. Drizzle on olive oil and put back in oven for about 20 mins on 180.
Serve with a spinach and rocket salad
As a piece of this is not super duper filling, its a bit of an excuse for a pudding so earlier today I made...
White Chocolate and Raspberry biscuits....
What a bloody treat these are. Don't worry what shape they are, mine were a mixture of squares, circles and triangles. They still taste ace and are very easy to make.
I was reminded earlier that when I was very small I used to make '1,2,3' biscuits - literally 1oz of butter, 2 of sugar and 3 of flour- and give them to all my friends. It seems that two decades later not much has changed but I've added a couple of extra ingredients.
You will need
(p.s I don't have measuring scales so I do a lot by eye and taste. I always take an oz to be a tablespoon.
12 oz self raising flour (the most confident of all the flours)
8oz butter (unsalted)
8oz caster sugar
1 tablespoon of condensed milk (this will help the biscuits to stay soft in the middle and crispy on the outside)
LOTS of white chocolate broken up into pieces (about the size of a piece of cheese that you might see a mouse holding in a cartoon)
Half a punnet of raspberries (are raspberries measured in punnets? Isn't punnet an odd word. Punnet.)
Dried raspberries if you can get your hands on them.
To make
Cream together the butter and flour, add the condensed milk and then gently sift in the flour. When you have a doughy mixture pour in some melted white chocolate. This is an extravagance that is not necessarily necessary but delicious. Add some chopped up raspberries and some chunks of chocolate to the biscuit dough. Then make little balls of dough and flatten 'pon a baking tray.
If you have greaseproof paper line the tray with this. I didn't as 'tis an extravagance that I would rather forgo for more biscuits so I rubbed a bit of butter on the bottom.
Put in the oven on 180 - I seem to bake everything on 180 - for about 17 minutes and then take out. Leave to cool for a bit and then transfer to baking rack for a further cooling experience. If like me, your biscuits decided to join together in harmony whilst they had their oven times then chop 'em up into any shapes you like. If your biscuits stayed in their circular shapes then well done, you have no further tasks.
Enjoy!
As some of you may be aware, the Premier League has started once again. A friend reminded me earlier about a time I was told (as a crafty joke,) that every four years one French team are allowed into the English top League. I listened enraptured and then told all my mates the next day about how exciting it was for Lyon that they had a chance in England this season. That was super duper embarrassing.
That's all.
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