Peanut Butter Cupcake with Peanut Butter-Chocolate Frosting #cupcakes (Taken with instagram)
Mother’s Day Meal
Long time, no update, am I right!? WELL. I’ve been super busy. Get over it, deal with it, it already happened, move on. Just kidding (kind of). I seriously have been super busy though, but I’m never too busy for my mom. Yesterday was Mother’s Day and all my mom wanted me to do for her was cook her a meal. My mom is almost a vegetarian, which makes cooking for her super easy since I cook vegetarian stuff all the time. I have made the mushrooms and sugar snap salad before and they are definitely go-to recipes when you want protein or something quick, fresh, and green. I’m actually going to include the recipes of things I haven’t made before, which mainly were taken from Bon Appetit magazine, but I omitted some things that weren’t necessary or added some things to fit my mother’s taste.
ASPARAGUS ONION TART
To start off the meal, I made an asparagus onion tart. My grandma usually makes an asparagus frittata for my mother, which she absolutely loves. I wanted to create this, but add a pie crust to it…because, I mean, pie crust is awesome.
Ingredients
- 1 store bought pie crust
- 2 bunches asparagus, trimmed and chopped into 1” pieces
- Half of a white onion, sliced
- 5 green onions, sliced
- 1 tbsp salted butter
- 8 ounces soft fresh goat cheese
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 large eggs
- salt and pepper for seasoning
The first step for this tart is to pre-bake the pie crust. So follow the instructions on your Pillsbury box (or whatever pie crust you are using).
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil. In a bowl mix together the asparagus tips, half of the sliced onion and the white part of the green onions with 2 tablespoons olive oil and some salt and pepper. Put this mixture on the baking sheet and roast for about 15 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Lower the oven temperature to 375 degrees F. In a pan, heat up the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil with the butter and sautee the remaining asparagus and onions until the onions are just about turning brown. Spread out this mixture on the bottom of the pie crust.
In a bowl, mix together the cheese, sour cream, and heavy cream. Whisk in the eggs. Pour this mixture into the pie crust. Sprinkle the asparagus tips/onion mixture from before on top of the tart. Bake the tart for about 22 minutes, or until the tart is set (when you shake it, the tart should not jiggle in the middle).
I loved this tart. As a matter of fact, I just ate some of the leftovers for lunch today. But I am warning you, if you do not like goat cheese A LOT then don’t make it because it is more a cheese tart than an eggy tart.
Lime & Blackberry Meringue Pie
My mom LOVES meringue pie. I have never made meringue pie, but was definitely willing to try to make it.
Once again you will pre-bake a store bought pie crust for this recipe.
Lime Curd
- 3/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3 large eggs
- 3 large egg yolks (the whites are used for the meringue so don’t throw them out!)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 stick salted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 3/4 cup chilled heavy cream
Stir the lime juice, lemon juice, eggs, egg yolks, and sugar together in a bowl. Place that bowl on top of a pot of boiling water, making sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Whisk this mixture together for about 15 minutes, or until the curd seems to set. Whisk in the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time. Chill the mixture for at least 2 hours.
Sprinkle gelatin over 2 tablespoons of water and let set for about 10 minutes. Using an electric mixer, beat the heavy cream until soft peaks form. Pour in the gelatin mixture and continue to beat until stiff peaks form. Fold this mixture into the chilled curd mixture and chill.
Blackberry Compote
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 cups blackberries
Throw these ingredients into a pot and heat until the mixture begins to boil and the sugar is dissolved. Reduce the heat so that the mixture is simmering and cook this for about 15-20 minutes, until the blackberries begin to break down and the mixture is thick. Allow this mixture to cool.
Pour this mixture on top of the pre-baked pie crust and top it off with the lime curd mixture. Chill this for about an hour.
Meringue
- 3 large egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
In a pot, heat the sugar, corn syrup and 1/4 cup water on medium-low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Increase the heat to medium-high and boil the mixture, occasionally swirling the pot for about 8 minutes (just before the sugar turns brown). DO NOT STIR! This step is soooo important. If you stir hot sugar it’s going to turn into a hard candy and you’ll have to start over. Only swirl the pot.
In a bowl, beat the eggs until semi-stiff peaks form. Beat in the salt. SLOWLY pour in the hot sugar syrup down the side of the bowl while still beating. Continue to beat the mixture until glossy, stiff peaks form.
Spoon the mixture over the chilled pie. Toast the meringue in the pre-heated oven until the meringue begins to brown. This took about 3 minutes for me.
I loved this pie. Initially, the recipe called for only lime juice, but I thought this would be too tart so I added in some lemon juice.
My mom and grandmother really liked the meal and I had a pretty good mother’s day with the two most important mother’s in my life.
Until next time,
Stacey
This is what my Mom got me for my birthday. Anyone who knows me, my love for cooking, and that this is a limited edition Le Creuset pot will understand how ridiculously stoked I am at this moment!! (Taken with instagram)
Bunny and Lamb Cupcakes (no animals were harmed in the making of these cupcakes) #cupcakes #easter (Taken with instagram)
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