Let me back up. Last Wednesday a great dessert was discovered. We came home at about the same time.
"How was your day?"
"Crazy. We discovered two errors totaling $7 million. People in my office, both phone lines ringing. You know. How about yours?"
"I did an international wire online that the bank turned into a completely different amount. I was on the phone with customer service for hours and then I had to go to the bank to fix it. At least, I hope it's fixed."
You've heard of breakfast for dinner. At our house last Wednesday, it was dessert for dinner. And I owe it all to my fellow bloggers. Cristine at Cooking with Cristine chose Dorie's Quick Classic Berry Tart for this week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe. And my blogging friend Nancy has influenced me so much that I had both a mini tart shell and chocolate ganache in the freezer. And for an even more satisfying tart, I made this with organic berries from my CSA box:
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I had baked the tart shell the night before, so it only took 5 minutes to assemble the tart. 90 seconds in the microwave to melt the ganache, wash and slice a few berries, and assemble. Brushing it with jam was only for show. If I wasn't posting it, I would have skipped that.
We split it for dinner, and both felt much better. We each still had problems to deal with at work, but I think Cristine's pick made an awful day end on a very happy note. Thanks, Cristine! This is definitely in our top 5 Dorie desserts.
29 comments:
Chocolate Ganache filling? Yum!!! Loks soooo good!!!
Wow! And I wasted all that time making pastry cream. Yours looks much nicer.
Love your new blog layout!
Oh my, you both had quite the day... but your dinner looks delectable!
The ganache looks incredible! I love strawberries and raspberries. Perfect dinner! ;)
How inventive! I love that you used ganache with the berries.
Raspberries and Chocolate. Awesome!! And you both deserved it after the day y'all had!!
Tart looks beautiful.
Oh, look at all those wonderful berries...I wish I had those right now. I figured people would find a way to "chocolate this up" a bit this week. I just didn't know it would be you! Great photo of it all, too!
Dang girl thats a tough day at the office! But your tart made up for it, it's so pretty and I love the chocolate part the best!
Oh Miss Leslie, raspberries and chocolate on a tart served for dinner...you had me at hello...brilliant.
Mmm, I love chocolate and berries. I took the harder route than yours, and made chocolate pastry cream. Now I just need to assemble it so we can eat it. Glad to hear the tart makes up for bad days; we've had a bunch of those here lately.
oh you REBEL! chocolate filling... red on red berries. YUM.
Nothing like a little chocolate to ease your stress. Your tart looks wonderful.
Mimi
Mmmmm! I like you idea of dinner! :) The ganache looks amazing! Thanks for baking with me and I'm glad it improved your day!
Ooh, the chocolate ganache for dinner with the fresh berries and tart shell, sounds perfect to me!
Oh! Yes... I recognize Leslie in that chocolate tart! LOL ...and like you, I thing desserts for diner are the best. Now if they can only find a way to make them caloriless! LOL
Your tart looks gorgeous with the mix of raspberries and strawberries! It sounds like a perfect dinner to me, and hope it was some consolation after your rough days!
I'm hoping that my influence is seen as a good one!!! Now that you mention it, I had a mini tart shell and ganache in the freezer and could have put mine together just as quick... oh, wait, I still can!!! Lovely tart, Leslie, and I hope life/work settles down for both of you soon.
Dessert for dinner...sounds like the perfect option for a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day! Your chocolate tart version looks delicious!
Ooh, good call on the ganache! I'll have to try that!
Dessert for dinner... I love it! And if that's your worst vice, I'd say you've got yourself together girl. It looks delicious!
Wow, your tart looks gorgeous!
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Mamma mia Leslie what a mess ! i'm sorry but hope your great tart helped a bit !! Great new looking blog !
must make with chocolate ganache!!! This looks incredible!!
As a fellow CPA, I can definitely relate to your stressful day!
I think you more than deserve this tart, which is beautiful!
What a crazy day! I'm glad you had some delicious dessert to fall back on! Really, the last picture is so gorgeous with the berries strewn about. Yum.
great way to end a crazy day ;)
Oh goodness Leslie - the chocolate with the raspberries and strawberries! It looks heavenly! I'm jealous of your in season raspberries - they're still really expensive here.
look at that ganache! Fabulous, and glad it cheered you up.
It looks wonderful! Dessert for dinner sounds like the perfect way to de-stress!
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