Here's a somewhat failed apple tart from dinner last night. The topping is simply sliced apples with sugar and fleur de sel. It is failed for the crust, which was meant to be a puff pastry, that didn't puff.
Still delicious.
EDIT: Also, this is proof to me that you can make a pretty good tart in a toaster oven, issues with uneven heating aside.
As to why: we are guilty of the usual New York sin of using our oven as a kitchen cabinet, so I bake or roast in the oven only upon the greatest provocation.
Is that a New York thing? My mother stores excess pots and pans in her oven (despite having many thousands of square footage). I was forestalled from entrenching that habit by a roommate who would turn on the oven without checking to see if anything was inside. I still use the under-oven broiler for storing baking sheets and other flat things, because I almost never broil. But I left the oven alone after we installed a hanging rack for pots and pans.
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You made this tart in the toaster oven? If so, why?
Yes.
As to why: we are guilty of the usual New York sin of using our oven as a kitchen cabinet, so I bake or roast in the oven only upon the greatest provocation.
Is that a New York thing? My mother stores excess pots and pans in her oven (despite having many thousands of square footage). I was forestalled from entrenching that habit by a roommate who would turn on the oven without checking to see if anything was inside. I still use the under-oven broiler for storing baking sheets and other flat things, because I almost never broil. But I left the oven alone after we installed a hanging rack for pots and pans.
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