Last night, I came across a recipe for Ina Garten's tomato/goat cheese tarts, thought to myself: "these look incredibly tasty!", pointed excitedly at my laptop screen to show my roommate, but realized I was missing a lot of ingredients. Being in my tomato-obsessed phase, I went to bed thinking about tomatoes, and these tarts (life is pretty thrilling!) When I woke up this morning (or afternoon, rather...eek), I instantly felt the need to make something similar to those delicious looking tarts. Being someone who is generally too lazy to follow recipes by the book anyway, I searched through my fridge in an attempt to create something remotely similar. I remembered I still had a pie crust left over from the last time my roommates and I had attempted to make a quiche (with great success, unless you consider the fire that occurred in our oven which could have been more than dangerous) - and decided to make miniature quiches instead. I had no idea how I'd end up making them, but surprisingly, it turned out to be a pretty simple process, and they turned out looking like somewhat normal.
Here's a rough idea of what I ended up doing:
Ingredients:
- 1 egg, beaten, with a pinch of salt added, and a tablespoon or so of milk
- 1 store bought pie crust
- 2 tomatoes, sliced.
- goat cheese
Using a cup or some other container with a cylindrical shape, flip the cup upside down and use it as a cookie-cutter to cut the pie dough into small circles.
Spray a muffin pan with Pam, or butter/grease it. Press the small pieces of dough into each (and here is where my lack of food-related expertise comes in. I have no idea what these things are called) muffin hole (?). I think I made about ten using one pie crust.
Add a bit of the beaten egg mixture into each miniature pie crust.
Add a slice of tomato on top of the egg mixture.
Sprinkle with crumbled goat cheese.
Bake in the oven at 350 degrees Farenheit (give or take 50 degrees... our oven is a bit unreliable. so is my memory) for about 10 - 15 minutes. (Again, horrible memory).
