Random moosages as I see fit.

You know how sometimes you have a Costco bag of Texas sweet onions in your pantry and you really need to do something to get rid of them?  Oh, maybe it’s just me?  Well, I did find myself in such a predicament recently and I decided that I would make a sweet onion tart.  Because you know…I have tart pans and I want to use them.  And I had an excessive number of onions sitting in my pantry.

Tada!  This one obviously is a baked tart and it doesn’t use a crumb tart shell like the previous fruit tarts I’ve been making.

I made the crust from this French Onion Tarte recipe because I was too lazy to find the one I normally use.  It’s not a bad crust.  It bakes up very nice and crisp.  It isn’t terribly flaky, but then again, it’s not a pie crust either.  It is VERY buttery though.  I probably won’t be using this crust recipe again.  Also, remember to dock and weight when you blind bake.  I…may have forgotten.

For the filling, I decided to sauté two onions, thinly sliced, and threw in the remaining bacon pieces I had from something else.  I also ended up throwing in about 1.5 tbsp of dried thyme in an effort to get rid of some thyme.  Salt and pepper per usual.

For a little more flavor, I did end up spreading a thin layer of whole grain mustard on the bottom of the crust before dumping the onion mixture in.  And then as I was looking at it, I decided that I needed something to bind the filling together, so I whisked up two eggs and poured that over the onion mixture.  And then I remembered I had some sheep’s milk feta still in the fridge and that would go well with everything already in the tart, so I crumbled up about 2oz of that and sprinkled it over the top.  And then I finally put it in the oven at 425degF for about 30min before I ended up throwing half the contents of my fridge on top of the tart.

End result was very good.  I think I’d made this again.  I’ve had it both as a light dinner paired with a salad and also for breakfast.  It would work really well for brunch too.

I do not much feel like writing this into a recipe format.

Oh and here’s a bonus fruit tart that I made with the other tart pan that I have.  Fruit tarts just look so nice.

That’s a mouthful, isn’t it?  I may have done that on purpose.  I may have done that on purpose as well.  Yay!

So I’m really fond of chocolate.  I think we had already established that.  But I’m also really fond of peanut butter, especially in cookie form.  It used to be a struggle at one of the local markets that sells both very good chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies.  Which box should I get?  I could always get both boxes.  But that feels toooo extravagant.  Two boxes of cookies??  No…then I would have to eat one of each cookie each time I wanted a cookie.  Tooooo extravagant.  I am not living a life of wanton excess.  Definitely cannot have two cookies each time you mean to only have one cookie.

But the problem is solved!  Kind of.  I mean, if I ever go to that market for cookies again, I will probably continue to have the same problem with buying two boxes of cookies and then eating a minimum of one cookie each at a sitting.  But, I found someone who had the ingenious idea of smashing a peanut butter cookie and chocolate chip cookie together into one cookie!  And even better, they made the peanut butter cookie as a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie!  And even even better better, they made the chocolate chip cookie as a chocolate chocolate chip cookie!  Huzzah!

Anyway, I made some.  They’re good.  The peanut butter cookie is nice and peanutty.  I’ve had that problem with lots of different recipes.  The peanut taste is not pronounced enough so you just have…cookie.  I mean, cookies are nice and all, but I wanted a specific type of cookie.  Not generic cookie.

The chocolate chocolate chip cookie is also quite good.  I meant to make it chocolate peanut butter chip, but I couldn’t find any pb chips the day I went to the store, so chocolate chocolate chip it was.  Which is totally fine.  Since I’m quite fond of chocolate.  But next time, I might try and plan ahead to make chocolate pb chip cookies.