Good morning, dear ones! 🙂 It’s Friday at last and the sun is shining gloriously!! I do love Autumn in Washington. 🙂
The other night I had to slip out of the house to capture this pearly glowing sky framed by thousands of cedar fronds. It felt fairytale-ish, like I was looking at a portal into another world. So beautiful. 🙂
Are you excited for your Labour Day Weekend? I sure am!! I get to drive down to Seattle to hang out with my brother, sis-in-law – hooray! We’re going to go hiking and shopping then will soak our weary selves in their hot tub. Can’t wait!! Tomorrow we get to meet up with dear friends at a fabulous Argentinian restaurant for great talks and all manner of delectable food. I don’t think I’ve ever had Argentinian food, have you? Do you have any recommendations or “you-simply-MUST-try-this” ideas?
As a hostess gift for my siblings I’m bringing a Nectarine Blackberry Galette. It’s baking as I type and ohhh, it smells so good! 🙂 I love galettes – a sort of free form pie. Simply roll out the dough into a circle, pile your choice of fruit in the middle, fold over the edges, bake and there you go!! Simple, easy, and so yummy. I made mine with a mix of whole grain, all-purpose, and semolina flours, and confess it has a bit of a blue tinge because I didn’t have sour cream or yogurt, just blackberry kefir. 🙂 I mixed the fruit with real maple syrup, dotted it with butter, then brushed the dough edges with water and sprinkled them with sugar to give them a nice glittery crust.
I hope you have a beautiful weekend, dear folks!! Talk with you soon! 🙂
Nectarine Blackberry Galette
(Serves 3)
Dough Ingredients:
1.5 Tbsp kefir (or sour cream, yogurt, buttermilk)
3 Tbsp ice water
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup all purpose flour
2 Tbsp semolina flour (or cornmeal)
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup cold butter, grated
Dough Directions:
- In small bowl mix kefir and ice water.
- In large bowl stir together flours, sugar and salt.
- Add grated butter and work into flour. You want a mix of small and pea-sized pieces.
- Drizzle kefir/water over dough a bit at a time, tossing with a fork after each addition.
- With hands gather dough into mound and press together into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill 2 hours.
Filling ingredients:
2 nectarines, washed, pitted and sliced
1 cup blackberries, washed
1 Tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp butter, cut into pieces
1 tsp sugar
Galette Directions:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Roll dough out to about an 8-inch circle and place on parchment lined baking sheet.
- In small bowl gently toss fruit with maple syrup to coat.
- Pile fruit in center of dough, leaving a 1-2 inch border.
- Sprinkle with butter pieces.
- Fold dough border over filling, leaving center exposed. Brush pastry with water and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, until pastry is golden and flaky.
- Using the parchment paper, transfer galette to cooling rack and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Cut into wedges and serve at room temperature.
Oh delicious! I also made something using summer fruit. Enjoy your long weekend 🙂
Have a fantastic long weekend. I’d better clean the house up on my day off and then I am headed to the market for some blackberries. A patient contributed the nectarines already:D
Although I haven’t had the pleasure of noshing on foods from Argentina myself, my sister in law was down there about a year ago. She claims that Argentinian cuisine is fairly big on two things; 1. steak and 2. pasta, of course there are many other things to eat, but apparently argentinians know how to cook up both a large steak and plate of pasta like nobody’s business.
Gorgeous galette, I love blackberry baked goods! Yum!
Marvelous rustic tart! And I really like that you’ve used whole wheat flour in the crust and a touch of maple syrup in the pie. Delicious!
Have a fun weekend!
Can you be my personal traveling chef? Coming here always makes me so hungry.
Eee! You will absolutely adore Argentinan food. I totally spelled that wrong. Anyway, it’s amongst my favorites. 🙂 Lovely sunset.
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into that galette. I feel like I should stick out my tongue to the rest of you, because she’s my sis-in-law, not yours! 😀
OK. Your just teasing us now. Have an awesome weekend.
Thank you, Elra! Your cake is gorgeous too. 🙂
I’ll be doing house-cleaning when I get home too, Val. 🙂 My house looks like a loading dock full of boxes!! Have fun baking! 🙂
Thank you so much, Mallory! That is great to know!! 🙂
I’m so glad you like it, Barbara. 🙂 I like using different flours in my baking. It gives things such great texture and heartiness. 🙂
Oh, that would be great fun, Matt! 🙂 I love cooking whilst I travel. 🙂
Hooray, Bekah darlin!! You’ll have to introduce me to your favorites tomorrow. 🙂
LOL, Rach! 🙂 Now I hope it turns out OK! 🙂
Well, I do my best, Anna. 🙂 Hope your weekend is fab too!!
what a beautiful galette! it has such a rustic look, just perfect, and the nectarines and blackberries were a wonderful choice for this lovely summer treat! Its going to be hard adjusting to not having so much great fruit available when this season ends. This has been such a good food year for me, reading all the wonderful recipes my friends have posted!
I think Argentinians are known for their meat, so order a steak! And chimichurri. Chimichurri is fantastic.
This galette is just gorgeous! It’s positively glowing in that photo. I love the grain flours you’ve infused into it.
Have a great weekend love!
Beautiful galette and stunning pictures!
Blackberries are the only kind of berries you can find here, so it’s a perfect recipe 🙂
Wow now THAT is what I call a galette! My mouth is watering! Gorgeous!
Hope you had a lovely weekend! …with that delicious-looking galette, I’m sure it was easy! 🙂 The berries look so tasty & the colors so vibrant, a perfect fresh dessert. Had my own dessert moment on Monday with a pineapple clafoutis, really love having the time to bake! xx