Onion tart with cambozola and olive oil crust

I discovered a great recipe for crust made with olive oil. It's originally intended to make empanadas gallegas, but here I kneaded in a bit of rosemary from the garden and used it for a caramelized onion galette.

Olive oil crust:
2C white flour
1/4C water
1/4C Olive oil
1 egg, beaten
1/4t salt

Instructions: Mix dry ingredients. Mix in wet ingredients. Roll thin, shape and bake. Brush beaten egg over the top before baking to give it a nice shine.

Onion and cambozola tart w/rosemary crust:
1 Olive oil crust with 1-2 table spoons chopped fresh rosemary kneaded in
3-6 onions, halved, then sliced vertically (3 big ones, 6 small ones)
3-4 oz. Cambozola cheese
1 T Brown sugar
2  T balsamic vinegar
2 T Olive Oil
Left over egg wash from olive oil crust (or 1 new egg, beaten)
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
1. Heat olive oil in a large sauté pan or dutch oven over med heat.
2. Add onions and cook until wilting and starting to brown.
3. Add sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper and reduce heat to low. Cook until well caramelized (about 30 min)
4. Roll out olive oil crust in a large irregular circle.
5. Spread onions in a level layer, leaving a crust border of 2-3 inches. Dot with Cambozola cheese.
6. Fold edges of crust over to make a smaller circle. The galette shape in the photo happens naturally.
7. Brush with egg wash.
8. Bake in a 400 deg. oven for 30-35 min.

Crusty Wheat Bread

Much like my last post, this is not really dinner. This time I'm not even going to try to make a title that sounds like a complete meal. But it can facilitate a lot of dinners (split pea and ham hock soup with homemade bread, anyone? Come on). Plus, it's made using a dutch oven, so it totally goes with this blog's theme.

If you are like me, making bread sounds intimidating, time-consuming, labor intensive, or all of the above. This method is none of those things.

My goal was to make the kind of bread that costs $6 at the store and is stale by day 2. The kind of bread that requires a good jaw. The type that has 4 ingredients, one of which is water. What I call real bread. This is the recipe that got me there.

Read this. Then do exactly as instructed the next time you're going to be home for 3 hours. That includes only about 2 minutes of actual labor, though!. No kneading required. Are you ever home for 3 hours in a row? Do you have 2 minutes to spare? Do you have a bowl, a wooden spoon, and hands? Of course. Just do it. I won't accept any excuses.

If I've changed your life yet again, well, I don't know what to say. I guess you owe me something big.