Healthy Vegan - No Ordinary Blood Orange Tart
Early on in the month, I made a Blood Orange Tart when blood oranges were still in season. I have been wanting to make this for a while, and when I saw blood oranges at a supermarket, it was decided that this was my weekend mission. I started with great excitement, measuring out the ingredients, bringing out bowls, whisks and measuring spoons. I made everything from scratch, the shortcrust pastry. The orange custard creme brulee -like filling and then sliced the blood orange as thinly as I could with such concentration that you think I had telepathic skills. However, as I slowly progressed with each stage, my heart began to sink beginning with the shortcrust pastry that began to shrink from the sides of the cake tin when it came out of the oven. It bothered me as I thought the filling was going to overflow. Then came the blood orange custard filling which I thought was never going to thicken to a luscious Orange curd lik...