Yesterday I gave myself a redo on two baking experiments from last month that were not successful. First, the tart. Last month I made a plum tart that did not turn out great. It was too wet, and the filling was an uneven mix. This month I was not able to find any fresh plums for the redo, so I went with peaches. I found a reasonable looking recipe for peach tarte tatin. Apologies for the page linked – there are a lot of pop ups and if you want to print it out you need to enter your email, which you may or may not want to do. Anyway – the recipe. I made it as given, except I used a refrigerated pie crust. I probably should have done from scratch, but just was not about it yesterday. In any case, it turned out extremely well!
This is a kind of different pie because you bake it basically upside down. You put the topping, then the fruit, then the crust in the pie pan. Then when it’s done you sort of flip it out.
The other baking experiment I did yesterday was tomato pie! I tried this last month but did not blog about it because the result was kind of sad and I knew I was going to redo it. In many ways this is a great recipe, especially if you have a ton of tomatoes to use up, which we do. Here is last month’s:
It tasted great, but was very liquidy. I did salt and drain the tomatoes, and went so far as to individually hand dry them with a kitchen towel. But the bottom crust was still wet. So I decided to put the crust on the top instead and just let the tomatoes be themselves. And they turned out great!
I used the same recipe and just did crust on the top and filling below. I also made them into little single serving pie plates for this go around, though you wouldn’t need to do that in any case.
We had a good pie-based supper last night, and more for lunch again today 🙂 Do you make savory pies? If so, what is your favorite kind?
Quite A Yarn 
Mmm… yum. I like pot pies the best for savory pies.
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Oh gosh yes – they are so yummy!
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Is that cheese on your tomato pie? Everything looks yummy!
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Yup – cheese and lots of it 🙂 Thank you, it was!
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Do you count shepherd’s pie? If so, then yes, I love making savory pies. Otherwise, I love *eating* savory pies, but haven’t made any. I need to learn how, though. Pot pies are a favorite of mine.
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Yes! I definitely count shepherd’s pie! And pot pie as well. Those are both really good 🙂
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I wasn’t sure about shepherd’s pie since it has mashed potatoes instead of a dough crust. But I love it so! And I think this fall/winter I need to make a point to try a homemade pot pie recipe. They can’t be *that* difficult.
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I think they count – there’s a starchy “lid” so good enough 🙂 That is a good idea – I should try one too. It will be a challenge in our house – my Mom is a vegetarian and my DH does eat meat, so we may do personal pot pies and see how that goes!
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That works for me! 😉 Personal pot pies sounds wonderful, actually. That way I could add mushrooms to the one for Mr. Wyrm and leave them out of mine.
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That works! When people like different things, personal is the way to go!
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It really is! I love when I remember to just have mushrooms on half the pizza, for instance. (Usually I forget to ask when we’re ordering.)
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Wow I never heard of tomato pie!
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I never had either, but stumbled across a recipe online one day and had to try it. The agriculture is turning out a LOT of tomatoes 🙂
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