LAST WEEK, RASPBERRIES AND LA MONTAGNETTE

My parents left in August after a sweltering summer here, and my dad requested a fondue for his last meal here before going back to a Cape Town winter.  Quiet odd for the locals to eat a fondue in mid-summer but it is the traditional dish here and delicious never the less.

It gets stringy

 

During the week we went for a little walk around Les Saisses and collected an amazing amount of wild raspberries.  Samuel made a tart with bananas and raspberries for dinner and it was excellent.

 

 

 

It's really easy and really delicious.  I made it with a bought sable pastry base but you can use a shortcrust pastry, bake it blind for 20 minutes first though and then here is the recipe............

 

 

BROWN BUTTER RASPBERRY TART

 

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 Eggs

1/4 cup Flour

1/2 cup butter

360g raspberries, but we used a banana and a small bowl of raspberries, you could use blueberries too

 

- Melt Butter in a saucepan until it browns slightly

- Whisk eggs and sugar together in a separate bowl

- Add flour and whisk till smooth

- Add Melted butter to mixture pouring slowly and whisking constantly

- Arrange fruit on the baked pastry base and pour over the batter

- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes on 180C.

 

Enjoy.

 

On Sunday we went to La Montangnette with my friend Caro.  It's a 30 minute walk all up hill so a glass of rose went down well plus a nice lunch in the sunshine.  Mainly a winter restaurant because it's slap bang in the middle of the ski slopes in the summer it's a great location for the kids to get in a spot of fishing on the lake. 

 

Caro's Dessert

 



 

Manu's dessert notice the difference - yip it didn't touch sides

 

 

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