Cooking it up

Wow, I hadn't realized it had been so long since I'd posted.  But then, there's been a lot going on.

Yesterday, I finally had an opportunity to cook the way I want to start cooking.  My parents were out for a party, and what I made I knew they wouldn't like: they're not tomato fans.  We had some tomatoes in our stores that needed to be used, and as my parents would rather skip them, I thought this was an excellent opportunity.  Nick and I had also picked some fresh basil just a few days before out of our herbs pots and I've been dying to make some homemade pesto!  So I got out both mini food processors (so nice that my mom has one now; I might need a bigger one when we move out) and whipped up a quick whole wheat pastry crust and some pesto, sliced up the tomatoes and made a free form tomato tart!  YES!

Results?  So-so.  Everything tasted pretty good.  I sprinkled a blend of cheeses on the tart after prebaking it for crispness, and that combined with the crust, the tomatoes, the pesto... really yummy!  The only disappointment was my crust.  It kept falling apart.  I've seen on food blogs about having difficulties with whole wheat crusts or that their tart crusts have been very delicate, so maybe this is not unusual.  But I will have to experiment.

I should have taken a picture, as it was really pretty with the red tomatoes, bright green pesto, and the jagged edges of the whole wheat crust, but... I really didn't think about it.  I still have tomatoes left over, so I will have to come up with another idea for the tomatoes before they go bad.  And then there's the leftover, lovely pesto.  Happy eating!