{"id":101,"date":"2011-07-05T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-07-05T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:31:42","slug":"triple-tart-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/101","title":{"rendered":"Triple Tart Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over this last long weekend, I somehow got invited to three different barbecues on three separate days. I don’t know how that happened. I’m usually not that popular. I’m usually lucky to just get invited to one barbecue in a weekend.<\/p>\n

But then came the dilemma of what to bring to these barbecues. I wanted to go with something familiar, so that I’m not trying out daringly new things during such a busy weekend. So I went with a fruit tart, since I’ve found that fruit tarts are relatively easy to make, and yet people enjoy them quite a bit, especially their visual appearance. Plus I get to be a little bit creative with the fruit arrangements.<\/p>\n

The crust and pastry cream are the same recipes that I always use (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Tart #1 was for a Saturday barbecue.<\/p>\n

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I went with oranges, strawberries, kiwi, and blueberries.<\/p>\n

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I usually slice strawberries thinly for tarts, but I decided to just cut them in half and arrange them around the edge this time.<\/p>\n

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A ring of orange segments is inside a ring of kiwi slices.<\/p>\n

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The center is a bunch of blueberries sitting inside of a ring of strawberry slices.<\/p>\n

Then came a Sunday barbecue, where I brought tart #2.<\/p>\n

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Same four fruits as tart #1, plus some mango.<\/p>\n

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I put some mango slices in between the strawberries in the outer ring, and also added a ring of mangoes right on top of the kiwi slices.<\/p>\n

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There’s a ring of orange segments like in the first tart, but it’s covered up by the mango ring, which I thought was kind of sloppy. It turns out that it’s hard to make a ring out of straight strips of fruit…<\/p>\n

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A lone strawberry in the middle, surrounded by blueberries.<\/p>\n

Tart #3 was for a barbecue on July 4th proper. I basically got out all of the leftover fruit I bought for the weekend.<\/p>\n

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The first plate of fruit for this tart: oranges, kiwi, strawberries, mango.<\/p>\n

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The second plate has blueberries, white peaches, and black plums.<\/p>\n

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This time I made a mango spiral with the slices going in between the strawberries on the outside, which looked better than the sloppy mango ring of tart #2.<\/p>\n

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The peach and plum wedges are in the middle of the tart, surrounded by a ring of kiwi slices.<\/p>\n

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Once again, the orange segments are totally hidden by all the other fruit. They’re down there somewhere.<\/p>\n

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Blueberries in the middle. There’s some white peach peeking out from under the mangoes, too. Don’t ask me to draw a diagram of the architecture. I have no idea where the oranges went.<\/p>\n

I somehow managed to make three different tarts on three different days, each with a different set of fruits. Eventually, I want to make a twenty-fruit tart, like the twenty vegetable fried rice<\/a>. Not sure how I’ll do it with a 9-inch tart, given how tightly I had to pack seven types of fruit in. People will exclaim, “I had no idea you could put loquat in a fruit tart!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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