Lemon Tart
Recipe by A Spicy Perspective
ROOKIE MISTAKES
Process-
Ok, I made some errors when making the tart.
1. the crust cracked
As I was rolling out the dough is started to crack like crazy and I tried patching it up. It looked fine when as I put it in the oven, but when I pulled it out there were two cracks. Against my better judgement I poured in the curd and it started to leak. Luckliy, it only leaked a bit, but there was cooked curd at the bottom that I had to scrape off that made it look like shit.
2. Adding CUT strawberries on top the night before
I don’t know who I think I am trying to defy nature. Cut strawberries leak and stain. If you look closely you can see the red on the left side.
3. Not following the recipe
The recipe called for meyer lemon’s but they were too expensive so I bought regular lemons and still followed the recipe. I tasted a bit of the curd and it was VERY lemony.
4. Not tasting your product
This tart was for a friend’s mom’s bday. Of course I suggested something that I had never made. I’ve done this before. Remember the chocolate raspberry tart? I gave that away without tasting it. WHO AM I? WHY? I CAN’T SAY NO? Luckily the family liked it and will be asking me to make something else for them in the future.
Taste-
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Random Thoughts-
I love the Halloween Baking Championship on the Food Network. A chef from Monterey is on this season which is cool!
I’m getting more requests for baked goods and so excited about it! I’m making a link this week for people to order my baked treats box!
Things have oddly become very crazy for me in the past couple of days. I’m taking family photos, food photos, product shots, baking for my photos, and now baking stuff for other people. Now if all of these things could merge together…
I’m annoyed. I take time to edit photos to my liking then I post them and they are so bright and have saturation issues. In Lightroom they look great, instagram- not good, facebook- ok, google drive- oddly saturated. I need to research why this is happening because it’s killing me. Sorry if I blind you with color, I’m trying!
I have some new stuff I’m testing this week for the baking boxes! Stay tuned!
-JLM
