I love watching television. I don't like to admit it, but it is one of my favorite things to do. And I don't mean the kind of television where you gain something from watching it or that you have to ride a bike to power. I'm talking pure, sinful, indulgent television. I'm talking the kind that absorbs your life for a few hours every week, sweeps you up and carries you away into another world for just a little bit before it spits you out and before you realize it's suddenly one o'clock in the morning and you have to work tomorrow.
There have been a few that I've really latched on to. Charmed, Bones, Criminal Minds. Preston and I could watch Ed over and over again forever, even though it was cancelled after only three years. But my favorite television show was Gilmore Girls. It's was a fun one to watch, centered around a mother/daughter story, a love story and a riches to rags to normalcy story. And it's littered with pop culture jokes, just full of funniness.
Considering so many people just celebrated 90210, as it was September 2, 2010, I thought I would celebrate my favorite show with a tart, which was inspired by Mary over at One Perfect Bite and her Plum Tart. In the show, Lorilei Gilmore, the thirty-something mother, spends hours and hours at a place called Luke's Diner, owned by a man named Luke. This is, as you may have guessed, the love story. I'm not going to tell you if Luke gets the girl in the end, you will just have to invest a few hours and watch the DVDs to find that out, but I will say that I was rooting for him the whole time. So here's to Luke, and Gilmore Girls and the characters that were created within the show that were all mine for a few hours every week. I think a Gilmore Girls marathon is somewhere near in my future.
Luke's Tart
Ingredients:
Pastry for 1 9-inch tart or pie pan
3 large peaches, peeled, pitted and thinly sliced
2 pears, peeled and thinly sliced
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Topping
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine, cold
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a pine pan with pastry. Set aside. Toss peaches and pears with brown sugar and cinnamon, put fruit in pastry shell (I put all peaches on bottom and pears on top). Combine flour, sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture until it reseambles cornmeal. Sprinkle streusel evenly over fruit. Bake for 20 minutes. Rduce oven temp to 350 degrees and bake for additional 20 minutes. Cover edges with foil if they are burning. Enjoy!
PS: Someone's going to have to teach me how to make a crumble topping, because that is not how it is supposed to look at all.
Ingredients:
Pastry for 1 9-inch tart or pie pan
3 large peaches, peeled, pitted and thinly sliced
2 pears, peeled and thinly sliced
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Topping
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine, cold
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a pine pan with pastry. Set aside. Toss peaches and pears with brown sugar and cinnamon, put fruit in pastry shell (I put all peaches on bottom and pears on top). Combine flour, sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture until it reseambles cornmeal. Sprinkle streusel evenly over fruit. Bake for 20 minutes. Rduce oven temp to 350 degrees and bake for additional 20 minutes. Cover edges with foil if they are burning. Enjoy!
PS: Someone's going to have to teach me how to make a crumble topping, because that is not how it is supposed to look at all.
4 comments:
Oh I loved Gilmore Girls too! I'm such a fan and always rooted for Luke and Lorelei (despite their many many dysfunctions).
As to the crumble, if you're lucky enough to own a food processor, it would be best to use that when trying to cut up and incorporate cold butter.
If you don't, this is Julia Child's tip: Add the butter and, with the tips of your fingers, rapidly rub them together with the dry ingredients until the fat is broken into bits the size of small oatmeal flakes.
Hope that helps!
I am on season three of the Gilmore Girls, having never watched them before. But I love the show so far! And I love tarts, too!
I think everyone I meet that I like also likes Gilmore Girls. It must be a very telling trait of our personalities.
Chrissy - so you are starting on season three, or you already watched 1 and 2? I have the box sets!
Stephanie - I didn't think about the food processor... I will have to try that next time. Which probably won't be for a while. I'm not very good at baking sweets. That may be a good thing, depending on how you look at it.
I just finished re-watching season 2...such a great show!
As for the streusel...it's really easy, just messy. Whisk the cinnamon and sugar together. Let the butter soften a little, so it's malleable. Cut the butter into tablespoon-size chunks, and add it to the sugar mixture. Then, just work it together with your hands. It takes a little while, but you should get a nice crumbly topping. Store it in the fridge until you use it. Good luck! This tart sounds delish.
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