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

SmithCale's Food Rant

My hubby, Cale, had enough. Every once in a while something on the news about diet and nutrition will drive him over the edge, so we've decided to release him to the masses and let him get out all his aggression over poor eating. Give him lots of support, and he just might make this a weekly post (and yes he drew the following picture, I'm so proud!). Without further ado: SmithCale's Food Rant:

"Is the Twinkie Diet to Good to be True?"~Every News Reporter

To that question I reply with another question, are we being irresponsible promoting this horrible diet to a country with an obesity problem? YES! If you don't know what I'm talking about, a professor at Kansas State University lost weight eating Twinkies* and now the whole world thinks America has gone insane.

*Now that's not entirely true he had a protein shake, ate vegetables and took a multivitamin along with eating Twinkies throughout the day to equal a total of 1800 calories per day. The end result was after 10 weeks he had lost 27 pounds.

How about we stick to food we made of ingredients we can pronounce like carrots, celery and tomatoes?

Food for Real Diets,

the SupperSmiths, forging one meal at a time