Caramelised Onion Tart and Yellow Raspberries

I had all these lovely warming, hearty recipe's planned for the coming weeks but instead of cold wind and rainy days we have a mini heatwave and the last thing I feel like eating is stew and mash so instead I decided to make an onion tart with salad and new potatoes and I'm glad I did.

5 Onions Sliced
Double Cream
One Egg
Grated Mature Cheddar
Puff Pastry
Butter

I was naughty and used shop bought puff pastry for this but I know Lot's of us do that now and it's easy and good quality so why not!
I rolled out my pastry into the tart dish and should have blind baked it but I totally forgot so if you make this recipe make sure you do blind bake it!
I caramelised my onions in a pan with butter and a dash of oil over a very low heat for around half and hour but you can do it longer for a deeper, richer colour but me and my dinner guest were in a rush to eat.



To make the savoury custard I beat my eagg and added to the double cream and Lot's of grated mature cheese. When the onions were ready I put them in the pastry case and poured the custard mixture over the top and placed it into a pre-heated oven along with some vine tomatoes in a separate pan to roast.



I took my lovely tart from out of the oven and served it with new potatoes that I had tossed in butter and pepper, and green salad with avocado and the lovely roast vine tomatoes.






Just to complete the summer food vibe I was going to make Eton Mess because I had some yellow raspberries but I can't take any credit for this dessert as I bought the meringues, put extra thick cream on the top and finished with raspberries so not exactly hard work. I didn't even crush it all up but the meringues were from Waitrose so they were all chewy in the middle and tasted rather lovely so I'm not going to loose sleep over it.

Christmas Treats

I have started to make a few lovely things to eat over the Christmas period including these mini caramelised cheese and onion tarts which are the easiest thing in the world to make, just caramelised some onions in butter and a sprinkle of brown sugar, make an egg custard with cream and an egg, throw in lot's of good quality mature cheddar cheese, add the onions and mix together. I just used shop bought puff pastry because that's how I role, put it into Yorkshire pudding trays, put a blob of my cheese and onion mix into each one and put it in the oven for 25 mins and voila!!!



I also made some chicken liver paté by trimming any yucky or green bits off the livers, sauté some onions in butter the add the livers and a good slug of brandy making sure you burn the alcohol off and as it's Christmas I put a dash of double cream in and then seasoned. To finish it off pour clarified butter over the paté and put it in the fridge to set and you are done.
And to celebrate my culinary achievements I'm going to have several drinks of the mulled variety!