Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ: Torte Milanese

October 6, 2015 at 11:41 am | Posted in BWJ, groups, other savory, savory things, tuesdays with dorie, veggies | 5 Comments
Tags: savory, tart

This is my “take two” of Michel Richard’s Torte Milanese recipe. I did the first take last fall, when we prepared Richard’s homemade puff recipe and did other stuff with it. Pictures of that version were lost, unfortunately, and were never to be seen again, except perhaps by the hackers who encrypted them a few weeks later. Hope those bastards got hungry.

The only silver lining to all that mess is that I was encouraged to make this tasty torte, which is a full meal of layered scrambled eggs, cheese, veggies and meat encased in puff pastry, again. And I got to play around with it a little this time. I used chard in lieu of spinach for the greens, I left out the ham layer and instead crisped up some bacon and cooked them into the scrambled eggs, which I flavored with the herbs I had on hand (thyme and basil), and I used a mix of cheddar and Swiss cheeses. Even my roasted red pepper layer was actually a combo of red and yellow ones. I would say that the puff stayed the same, except I used store-bought instead of homemade this time. Its savory, salty (in a good way) and very filling. Plus, the tall slices look great with all those layers of good stuff.

The recipe says to bake the torte at 350°, but I don’t think puff pastry bakes well that low, so I started it at 400° and turned it down at the halfway point for the rest of the bake.

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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yum! looks amazing.

Comment by jessie sheehan bakes— October 7, 2015 #

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Beautiful!!!

Comment by swatisharma2005— October 7, 2015 #

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This one is definitely worth the work and it is a great foundation recipe with unlimited variations. Chard is a favorite of mine both in the garden and the kitchen, perhaps I will use that next time!

Comment by alisahuntsman— October 7, 2015 #

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This looks fabulous – so, so good.

Comment by Cakelaw— October 8, 2015 #

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haha I am sure they were hungry after hacking into your photos 🙂

This looks wonderful!

Comment by saffronandhoney— October 9, 2015 #

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