Food dehydrator

Dried toms are excellent in a goat's cheese tart. Mushrooms on the base, then onions pre-fried, or caramelised, then loads of the toms and then the cheese. The flavour is so intense.

NOW THAT! REALLY TICKLES MY THOUGHTS!
WOW

fresh mushrooms or dried?

I usually use fresh in that. Dried I use in cassroles and soups.

I buy a large container of value mushrooms from the market, and when they start to look wrinkly I dry the remainder and buy another lot.

Sounds good to me!

I think my veggie dd might like this.
Can you make and freeze in advance? And as a useless cook, can you give me cooking instructions?
It's difficult to find some thing that we both might like when she visits!
The goats cheese would have to be hard pasteurised , would that work?

I tend to use soft, but why not. Yes you can freeze it, use a pack of frozen puff pastry. Roll and fill a large square flan dish of some kind, cover the base with sliced mushrooms, fry two or three onions and maybe a garlic love very slowly adding a little sugar and vinegar, when they are just starting to catch remove them and dpread over the mushrooms. Add the tomatoes so that they are touching all over the layer, ditto the cheese. Beat an egg, brush it over the pastry that shows and drizzle the remainder over the tart. Add lots of black pepper and herbs. Bake until the pastry and cheese are beginning to brown.

Thanks!
I've bookmarked it for after dd has my DGD! Expected in 2 weeks time!

Can you add maybe a whole chopped camembert and thinly slice the hard goat's cheese on top? That would be better.

If I can get a pasteurised Camembert? She is strange about foods and avoids all unpasteurised or soft cheeses when pregnant or breast feeding
I would point out, she is still breast feeding DGD no 1. Who was born in July 2011!
Earth mother would find it hard to compete with her!

You know what - LIE if you can't find one. Just make sure you have the name of a potential retailer handy in case of questions. Apologies to all those with diets that are different to those of the rest of us, but after many years of two of my four sisters going through so many odd diets I have lost count, plus nephews and nieces on special diets with ME and my mother joining in with health fads from time to time, and me living usually in the middle of nowhere, it really isn't worth the stress. To say nothing of the cost. I think as long as there is a reasonable coating of goat's cheese for the flavour, any mild creamy cheese should work underneath it. It just needs to be in nice thick melty chunks.

Wash your mouth out with soap and water! Lie!!!!!!!!!?
What a good idea

I won't tell...

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dancingfeet we dehydrate all sorts all the time. As far as apples are concerned if you slice then thinly using a mandolin grater they will dry in no time.

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