Potato pesto pie

Sometimes the spontanious ideas for recipes are the best. It's the same with this pie. The mille-feuille dough was bought without any specific aim: just in case of. Maybe as a base for a nice pie with fresh fruit or to be filled with fresh salmon, dille and creme fraiche.

A left over of Opperdoezen (a very special kind and protected dutch potato) and a recipe of a gourmet magazine made me decide something else; a pesto potato pie.


mille-feuille dough, one sheet ready-rolled
goat cheese, crumbled, 100 gr.
peppadews, just a few
pesto verde, two tablespoons
cooked and thinly slices potatoes, 400 gr.
basil leaves
1 egg, beaten
italian herbs

Heat the oven to 180 dgr. C. (356 dgr. F.).

Take the dough and fold the edges to make a border. Spread a thin layer of pesto over the base (not the edges).
Cover it with the slices potato and peppadews.
Spread the crumbled goatcheese over it and season with italian herbs.
Glaze the borders and the potatoes carefully with the egg.

Bake 25- 30 minutes in the oven until golden and crisp. Sprinkle a few basil leaves over it and serve the pie with a nice green salad.

(from Olive; august 2008)

Appletriangles

One of the great things at this part of the year are the apples. Especially the fresh and sour goudrenet is our favourite. Combined with cinnamon, sugar and sometimes with mint they are great in applepies, cakes and appletriangles. The last ones are just so easy to make that our son learnt to bake them when he was only 10 years old.


Appletriangles

• 10 squares puffpastry each 13,5 cm (5,5 inch)
• 2 sour apples (goudrenet) peeled and diced
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix the diced apples, cinnamon and two tablespoons sugar;
Put in the middle of each square 1 - 1,5 tablespoon of the mixture;
Fold the square diagonal tot a triangle and make sure you seal the edges carefully with a tiny bit of water.

Make the outside of the triangles wet with water and strew them with sugar.
Put them 20 minutes in the middle of the preheated oven at F 400 dgrs (= C 200 dgrs.).