Easy Cheap Recipes

Continuing with the cheese theme (something I never get tired of personally:) is this fun recipe that  I also found in Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. I serve these for entertaining and around the holidays. In my family we don’t do a big Christmas Eve dinner. We have hor dourves and drinks and I make these to avoid mutiny.

Dough:

2 cups all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp sugar

12 tbsps cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

1/3 to 1/2 cup ice water, as needed

Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Cut in the butter by hand or using a mixer with a paddle attachment, leaving some pea-sized chunks. Sprink the ice water over the top by the tablespoon and toss with the flour mixture until you can bring the dough together into a ball. Press into a disk and refrigerate.

3. To form a galette, roll it out on a lightly floured counter into a 14-inch irregular circle about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into 3 inch circles. Reroll and cut until all dough has been used. Place small teaspoon of filling onto each circle leaving space around edge. Fold over and crimp closed with fork. Place on baking sheet and brush with egg mixture. Bake at 375 F for 25 minutes. Let cool slightly, but serve warm.

Filling:

4 oz feta

4 oz farmers cheese

3 sliced scallions (include some of the green)

1 Tbls. chopped marjoram

1/2 tsp. thyme crumbled

1 egg yolk beaten with 1 Tbls. milk