Meatless Monday: Onion Tartlet

Adapted from Cooking Light

Personal Note: I think it has become glaringly obvious that SmithCale and I can enjoy an onion. Maybe enjoy is too soft of a word…obsessively devour is probably more accurate. Good thing we both feel that way, so the following oniony breath doesn’t scare either of us away. I have to admit this came together so beautifully that I squealed in the process of making them because they looked so cute! I’m always a little stunned when what I make actually looks similar to the picture.

Plan of Attack:

1. Prep Pie Dough (option to purchase, I’ll look away)

2. Carmelize onions

3. Assemble tarlets

4. Bake

Ingredients for 2 tartlets:

1/4th recipe pie dough (think to yourself half, then half again)

½ Tbsp olive oil

1 yellow onion, sliced

¼ C red onion, sliced

1 Tbsp fresh thyme, finely chopped

Salt and pepper to taste

1 Tbsp water

1/8 C feta cheese

1/8 C jarlsberg swiss cheese (or any swiss of your choosing), shredded

1 egg, lightly beaten

Instructions:

1. Either the night before or the morning of, prepare the pie dough and allow to rest for at least 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees
3. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat
4. Add onions, fresh thyme, salt and pepper; sauté 10 minutes stirring occasionally
5. Add water and sauté an additional 10 minutes until nicely browned
6. While onions cook for the final 10 minutes, split your dough into equal portions and roll into 6-8 inch circles and transport on to baking sheet
7. Sprinkle feta on the dough, leaving ½” space all around
8. Split the onion mixture between the two dough circles, and top with swiss cheese
9. Then fold the edges over and brush with beaten egg
10. Bake 25 minutes
11. Enjoy!

Listen closely ladies, having trouble getting your man to mow the lawn? This meal moved SmithCale so much, he immediately jumped up from the dinner table and promptly went to mow the lawn. No joke. See?

Also, had to share that I was enjoying Harry Potter on ABCFamily this weekend, and I saw SmithCale running around like a madman. I dare not ask what he was doing, because I knew he had gone into his nervous cleaning rampage. Don't let the word fool you, he wasn't mad, but about 1-2 times a year something sets him off and he just goes through the house cleaning out and putting up odds and ends that always get left out. I just did what any woman would do, sat back and enjoyed the moment, and my Harry Potter.

I mean, look at him go!

Food for Male Domination!

the SupperSmiths, forging one meal at a time