Trip to dentist and with a rather numb mouth and advice not to eat 'hot' or 'very cold' food, I could not be bothered to go shopping - so no fresh meat or fish or vegetables.
Menu du jour
Manchons de canard confits
orange and little gem lettuce salad
new season jersey royal potatoes with mayonnaise
morello cherry tart with creme fraiche
Resourceful husband - dug out a tin of confit de canard from a previous trip to France and roasted the duck legs - instructions said to braise the duck slowly in the duck fat that it was sitting in. Oh well.... Not five legs but six in the tin! so plenty for three with a skin that crisped up during roasting.
Younger daughter has been pestering me to make something with pastry - too much hard work for just the three of us I have been replying. Spied the tart yesterday in Marks and Spencer and thought it warranted a taste. So the tart had to come home.
No photographs of the main meal :( just remembered to take a picture of the tart as it was going into the oven for a slight warm up. Unusual shape - square rather than the normal round ones.
verdict : slight tartness of the creme fraiche offset the extreme sweetness of the compote layer. Pastry remained quite crisp and did not fall apart even after transfer from oven to serving plate to dish. Yumm :) go and give it a try.
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