Recipe - Tartelettes Au Bleu (Blue Cheese Tartlets)

8 ounce Tart pastry dough (I used
commercial puff pastry
dough)
3 ounce Spinach; trimmed
1 Egg
2/3 cup Heavy cream
Three fourths cup Freshly grated Emmenthaler
cheese (swiss cheese)
One fourth teaspoon Freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and freshly gound
pepper
3 ounce Roquefort cheese; crumbled
2 tablespoon Pine nuts

Prepare the dough and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. If using commercial
puff pastry, defrost in fridge or at room temp.

Preheat oven to 425. Bring a large saucepan filled with water to a boil.
Plunge spinach into water and cook for 30 seconds. Immediately drain in a
colander and rinse with cold water to halt cooking. Drain again, pressing
against the greens to force out as much water as possible. Set aside.

Break the egg into a bowl. Add the cream, swiss cheese, nutmeg and salt and
pepper to taste and beat with a fork until blended. Coursely chop the
spinach and add to the bowl (I used scissors), stir well.

On a lightly floured board, roll the dough out as thinly as possible.
Sprinkle the Roquefort evenly over the dough. With a fluted pasty cutter
about 1 One fourth inches in diameter, cut out 18 dough rounds (I used one with a
flower/petal shape). Use the rounds to line 18 individual tartlet pans or
the wells in minature muffin pans. Fill each lined pan with some of the egg
mixture and scatter a few pine nuts on top. Place in oven and bake until
the filling sets and the crust is golden, about 15 minutes. Serve warm
(they were also good cold).

Posted to FOODWINE Digest by Stephanie Rawlins skrawlins@MINDSPRING.COM
on Sep 20, 1997