Tomato Pie
Another recipe from Cooks Illustrated.
This is a deceptively simple recipe - a basic pie dough with sliced tomatoes, layered with a cheddar cheese, mayonnaise and cornstarch filling, with a light sprinkling of chopped scallions.
The recipe got pretty self-conscious about the pie-dough, but aside from baking the pie on the very bottom rack of the oven, there was nothing particularly tricky about it.
The finicky bit of this recipe is prepping the tomatoes. Even though the recipe didn't call for it, I blanched and peeled them before slicing them. The instructions were pretty explicit about salting and drying the tomato slices as much as possible, which makes a lot of sense. If the tomatoes are too wet, the filling of the pie will never cohere (Is that a word? Is it the actual word I want here?)
Also, this dish is designed to be eaten at room temperature. We were a little dubious about that at first, but we are total believers now. This is really, REALLY good!
We'll cook this at least one more time this summer.
Yay, summer!
Link to recipe: www.cookscountry.com/pwlogin.asp?did=5603&area=recipe...
Tomato Pie
Another recipe from Cooks Illustrated.
This is a deceptively simple recipe - a basic pie dough with sliced tomatoes, layered with a cheddar cheese, mayonnaise and cornstarch filling, with a light sprinkling of chopped scallions.
The recipe got pretty self-conscious about the pie-dough, but aside from baking the pie on the very bottom rack of the oven, there was nothing particularly tricky about it.
The finicky bit of this recipe is prepping the tomatoes. Even though the recipe didn't call for it, I blanched and peeled them before slicing them. The instructions were pretty explicit about salting and drying the tomato slices as much as possible, which makes a lot of sense. If the tomatoes are too wet, the filling of the pie will never cohere (Is that a word? Is it the actual word I want here?)
Also, this dish is designed to be eaten at room temperature. We were a little dubious about that at first, but we are total believers now. This is really, REALLY good!
We'll cook this at least one more time this summer.
Yay, summer!
Link to recipe: www.cookscountry.com/pwlogin.asp?did=5603&area=recipe...