Anyway, the point of all this is to explain why I haven't posted in almost a full month. In truth, I have baked a couple of times, but I just haven't had time to take pictures and blog about it.
The one project I did remember to photograph were these stone fruit pop tarts.
My parents befriended one of the stone fruit famers at our local farmer's market, so every Sunday they come home with mountains of peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, as well as some of the newfangled blends like apriums and pluots. I love them all, but I think the white nectarines are my favorite.
A few weeks ago, Mom and Dad asked me to make a dessert for them to bring to a potluck dinner with their friends, so when I got home on Friday evening, I whipped up a double batch of my favorite pâte brisée, and on Saturday morning, I woke up early to roll out the dough, assemble the tarts, and bake them up. Honestly, if that is not the epitome of daughterly love, I don't know if I'm up for this job.
I decided to go ahead and fill these with just fresh fruit -- no sugar, no butter. The apricots and peaches were definitely sweet enough, but the plums could have used a touch of honey. Live and learn!
I won't bore you with the recipe for something that I've blogged about numerous times, but I will share some more pictures, including one that shows exactly why I love this recipe (read: delicious flakes of butter), and one of the pop tart dumpling that I made with my little bit of extra dough (so cute!).
