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Well, we’re cooking easy things around here this summer, and one of mama’s favorites is SOOOO easy, we thought you might like to try it. Â Especially with all the nice tomatoes around. Â Interesting, papa says, that a wild and wanton chick used to be called a tart or a hot tomato! Â Never thought of that, hmmm…chick as in female, that is, not Rhode Island Reds, haha.
Let’s hope you can get puff pastry at your market, or if you are really energetic and make your own, lucky you! But mama says that the supermarket one made with butter is really light and tasty.
Heat the oven to 425F Â or 235C.
Line a tart pan with puff pastry, crimping the edges.  Spread it with a nice layer of Dijon mustard.  Lay thin-sliced tomatoes in one layer in a nice overlapping pattern.  Sprinkle with salt and fresh  pepper and a squeezed garlic clove distributed evenly over the tomatoes.  Now sprinkle the tomatoes with a generous  cup of grated gruyere, emmental, jack, or white cheddar cheese  and bake for about 15-20 minute or until it looks like this:
I offered to do the crimping but mama said that claw marks were a bit too strong for the delicate dough, and that possibly making holes in the pastry would definitely produce a fallen tart!
Hey, isn’t there a pastry called “bear claw”? Â There’s no accountin’ for anthros….
This tart is very easy and very good with sliced avocado or a green salad for a cool/tepid  summer lunch.
Mama was eyeing the leftovers for breakfast, Â but there was just enough for lunch for two, Â so I talked her into a bowl of kibble instead, with yogurt and fruit, hoping she would share haha…
Don’t you just love to cook?
Uh, oh, I Â smell dinner…poached salmon with horseradish sauce. Â I KNOW they’ll share that.
I think…
That tart does sound yummy. Mom says there is a song about a hot tomato that looked green, which Mom said meant naive not the color green. Humans are very weird.
Ha ha a hot tomato but green…name of song? Mama loves punny songs.
The Cotton Patch by Jeannie C. Riley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6mOyyeuGU
Mommy got it slightly wrong it was a ripe tomato that looked green. But she said in this instance ripe and hot meant the same thing.
I love that singer but I’m not clear on what this song refers to except maybe tarted up, haha.
I got it, I got it!
That tart looks amazing…and how nice you got to lick the spoon!
Yes, a little cheesy of mama as there wasn’t much!
That is a gorgeous tart! And it has our favorite summer “thing” in it – tomatoes. I totally will be making this soon – it’s so delicious looking. Thanks so much…………
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It is very, very easy if you don’t have to make the feuilletĂ©! I added the garlic, grated fine over the tomatoes, and as I mentioned, mama says you can use any semi-hard cheese you like or even feta, whatever that is, haha.
YUMMMM – that looks delicious! We have leftover feta, so Mama will make a Shakshuka today. No more restaurants (not that we’ve hardly been to any) – the tourists are coming in and it’s just too scary. Papa made Jamaican Chicken a couple of days ago – and we had leftovers yesterday. They are taking turns trying a new recipe a week. So far, so good!!! And you know who the official taster is, teehee!!
Wow, you get to taste all those great things? What a life, Mya. Lap of luxury, or rather, lap of LAPS, haha.
That looks great. Thanks for the recipe. XO
You are welcome to any recipe mama has, which are hundreds of her own making over (too) many years, haha.
I feel that International Cat Day (tomorrow) should primarily focus on the bleak situation allowed to continue for feral and stray cats, essentially due to human apathy.
For example, in a neighbouring city there are tens of thousands of these beautiful sentient animals, so many of which are allowed to suffer severe malnourishment, debilitating injury and/or infection by callously neglectful municipal government as well as individual residents who choose to remain silent.
(Progress might also be made by discontinuing allowing pet cats to roam freely outdoors and notably risk them becoming another predator’s meal or some sadistic person’s target for a torturous death.)
When I made a monetary donation to the local Trap/Neuter/Release (TNR) program, a lady volunteer left me a tearful voice mail expressing her appreciation, which to me suggested a scarcity of caring financial donors.
No wonder cat TNR programs are typically underfunded by governments and private donors, regardless of their documented success in reducing needless suffering.
I fear a possible presumption of feline disposability.
Could there be a subconscious human perception that the worth of such animal life (if not even human life in regularly war-torn or overpopulated famine-stricken global regions) is reflected by its overabundance and the protracted conditions under which it suffers?
Well, lots of blogger do contribute, to both cats and dogs, and even other exotic animal refuges.
There is also a delightful ice cream flavor known as Bear Claws, but unfortunately the base is chocolate.
Wow, we’ve never heard of that one! Does it have grated chocolate over the top for the pelt?
That sounds good Loulou. Puff Pastry has been missing in the stores here.
Well, a lot of bread and pastry fixins’ have gone missing because of all the new home bakers.