Easy as Pie Lightning Tartlets
I went out to my garden this weekend and I was blown away by how big everything got after being away for a week. I harvested five artichokes! I gave one away to another gardener at my community garden. Then I saw my strawberries. It took a while to even locate and pick them all. Then I had an unusual problem: what do I do with all these strawberries? I could just eat some of them, sure. And I did. Immediately. But for once in my life I had too many strawberries. I decided to whip something up. My idea was to make something incredibly quick, but still with a beautiful flaky crust. I had this idea that pie crust doesn't need to take as long as it does with gluten dough because it doesn't need to rest to "relax" the gluten. Whether or not that's strictly true is unimportant. Sure, it helps to rest the dough to get the water to absorb evenly, but for the sake of a Lightning Tartlet I decided to omit the resting. ...