Peaceful Homemaking & My Veggie Tart Recipe

[Music] hello everyone I am so happy to see you again today is going to be one of those Blissful domestic chores days I need to clean the music room I need to iron napkins I want to buy some flowers to arrange for the music room but before we do anything I need to prepare some vegetables so these are the red onions that you and I planted together last spring and then harvested in the fall as you can see some some of them have already started to sprout it's not a terrible thing but I really want to preserve the bulk of these red onions so I'm going to mince most of them and then freeze them onions freeze perfectly [Music] well I've already used a lot of the onions that we harvested together but I still have a good 50 to 70 onions remaining I will use my food processor to mince the onions Now red onions are good storage onions but you need to keep them at a cool temperature and I don't really have a perfect location for storing them that way so I'm better off freezing them it takes a bit of work to peel 50 to 70 onions but I don't mind the job it's just another domestic [Music] chore so here are the onions I'm going to process today now I still have some rather small red onions over here but I'm going to try to use those fresh there's one onion that I need to cut into half Moons because I'm going to use it on a colorful vegetable tart that you and I are going to fix later today now you can save the onion peels either for vegetable stock or you could boil them and use them as a red or purple dye for Easter eggs going to bring this to my compost now I have never minced onions in a food processor before but apparently it can be done the trick is to pulse the machine rather than just let it run let's start with a small amount I think this worked out perfectly I cannot believe what a nice job the pulse feature on this food processor did for these onions I mean they truly are minced so let's keep keep [Music] going so I have concluded that the food processor does a magnificent job if you want a super fine mince but if you want just coarsely minced or chopped onions probably better to do them by knife which I'm going to do right now of course I want a very sharp knife for this job so I'm using my little wonderful knife sharpener here it works a charm I can link this in the description below if you are interested this is sharp going to rinse off my [Music] knife [Music] I suppose if you get bored dicing onions you could also use one of these little gadgets this thing actually works very well these are the super fine onions I'm going to arrange these onions so they lay flat in the freezer bag and they will take up less room in the freezer I think my knife and this little Gadget made the very best diced onions if they still make this gadget I will link it in the description below now when I need onion for a soup or a stew or for an on omelet I can just pull one of these bags out of the freezer reach my hand in and grab whatever I need very convenient to have onions in the freezer earlier I mentioned that we are going to make a colorful vegetable tart for lunch today the other vegetables besides onion are broccoli fettes so I'm going to cut into fairly small pieces and then I will need a diced or chopped red bell pepper now I'm going to throw all of these vegetables onto a baking sheet and my oven is preheating to 425° F or 220° CS so we are going to roast these veggies a little olive oil salt pepper toss the oil will help the vegetables to caramelize in the oven I'm going to roast these just until they begin to color that's going to take probably 15 [Music] minutes [Music] I'm going to clean up my workstation and then we can set up the ironing board and heat up the iron and Tackle those dinner napkins these are freshly laundered napkins these particular napkins are considered tea napkins because they are small [Music] and again I really do not mind ironing napkins I approach it with a zen-like attitude we host a lot of dinner parties here so it's great to know that my napkins are laundered ironed and ready for [Music] use [Music] [Music] these are cloth cocktail napkins although I sometimes use them also for tea napkins and I could certainly use a lot more cocktail napkins because besides hosting a lot of dinner parties we also host a lot of cocktail parties usually just for a total of four people I think meeting friends for drinks and nibbles is one of the best ways to entertain friends if you have seen beautiful cloth napkins on Amazon or at some other Outlet please let me know again I want to increase my collection of them I need to put my ironing board and iron and all of these napkins away and then we can get started cleaning the music [Music] room when I clean I always start at the highest point in the room and then work my my way [Music] down I can link all of my cleaning equipment in the description below if you are [Music] interested to clean the highly polished surface of the Yamaha Grand I use only a microfiber cloth that is barely dampened with [Music] water [Music] I use only a dry microfiber cloth to dust the ebony finish on the Steinway [Music] Grand [Music] I'm going to call this music room clean now I want to find some flowers to arrange for the table in the room so please please take a short drive with me when we wake the birds and see the sun side by side our face are done all the good times just begun oh we know what we have let's Hold On Tight found what we're looking for in life call that's crazy but things are finally right with you and I the future is [Music] bright [Music] you there are many beautiful bloom from which to choose at this flower shop I think these pink roses will look well in the music [Music] room we are home again here are the flowers we bought now I just need to run out to the Garden to grab some greens take a short walk with me [Music] eight roses some free greens from the garden let's bring this into the music [Music] room I don't know about about you but at this point I'm rather hungry for my simple late lunch we're going to assemble the little tart that I mentioned earlier so I have a sheet of store-bought puff pastry here I want to roll this out just to make it a little longer than it is I have a recipe for this vegetable tart on my web website which I can link below but I think today's tart will be mostly an improvisation so I have a roughly 12 in x 10 in rectangle here I need to transfer this pastry to a parchment line baking sheet but before I do I'm going to sprinkle some grated swiss cheese rather shredded swiss cheese that is approximately the same Dimensions as the pastry this is just going to add a little more flavor and I put the dough right on top of the cheese next comes a Mason topping that we are going to put on the pastry and this Maser Pony mixture will hold the vegetables in place to the egg I'm adding oh two or three tablespoons of either grated Parmesan or you could use aciago cheese a pinch of salt not too much because the parmesan is already salty grinds a black pepper and if you want it some garlic powder whisk now I'm adding 8 oz or 226 G of mascaron you should be able to find mascaron in just about any supermarket and just whisk until the mixture turns fairly smooth Now set this aside for a moment grab the pastry then I'm going to score a border on the pastry so I'm coming in about 3 quar of an inch from The Edge and I'm just lightly pressing a line in other words I'm not actually cutting through the pastry when you score the pastry like this the outside edge will puff up higher than the middle does spoon the mascaron mixture onto the pastry staying within the lines I'm going to use my offset spatula for this then top the mascar pony with the gorgeous vegetables that we roasted earlier and I only roasted them lightly the first time because they are going to roast again again my oven is preheated to 425° F or 220° C the reason we par roasted the vegetables was to relieve them of some of their moisture otherwise the vegetables would be too wet and they would create a soggy crust now I want to add some fresh thyme leaves you could use dried here this is the thyme that we bought at the Berry Farm they actually grow it in green houses all winter long this goes into the preheated oven until the pastry Browns and puffs and the Maser Pony is cooked through that will take about 25 [Music] minutes [Music] and here's our beautiful vegetable tart which I'm going to try to slide under this wire rack here we go I need this to cool for about 5 minutes before we can cut into it meantime let's go light a fire in the dining room fireplace [Music] I want to slide this onto a board just for easy slicing I also want to garnish this with some baby arugula leaves as you can see the sides rose up beautifully I just need to cut this into squares well I think this will make make a Chic little lunch or very early dinner let's head into the dining [Music] [Music] room this is the kind of casual meal that requires neither Fork nor knife Bona all I can say is wow the flavors of this thing are incredible the broccoli the red bell pepper The Red Onion the garlic powder the mascaron layer the incredibly light and ly puff pastry this is downright Heavenly well we certainly accomplished a lot today and honestly I could not have done my domestic chores without you just knowing you were here watching gave me the all the energy I needed to complete all of those tasks I hope you will give this perfect little vegetable tart a try someday I could put a couple of my other videos up here or up here that you can watch between now and my next upload in the meantime take very good care of yourself and I will see you in the next video [Music] Bon