Congratulations to Harrison Craig from Melbourne who was announced last night as The Voice Australia for 2013. Harrison has a voice that is smooth like honey and deep and rich like chocolate, which is especially wonderful because he has a stutter in his speaking voice and is only 18 years old. He is marvellous - I'll be watching this space for Harrison's next career move.
This week for Baking with Julia, we take a walk on the savoury side, and make Cheese and Tomato Galette. For the uninitiated, a galette is a free form pie. This one is made with sour cream dough, and contains cheese, tomato and basil.
Here is a peek inside:
I used low fat tasty cheddar cheese, as I refused to buy any extra cheese - I am not a huge cheese eater, and it is rather wasteful to throw out cheese that has gone mouldy or hard from lengthy periods spent languishing in the fridge. I added salt to the filling and sprinkled it on top of the dough because I thought that it needed it.
I took this to work, and much to my surprise, it disappeared. Lovely Lisa even complimented me on it in the lift going home - yet I was worried that no-one would want it because the dough was below par as I made a boo boo when halving the recipe and ended up having to add way more flour than was desirable. I am happy that people liked it anyway.
To see what our other merry members of BWJ thought of this galette, visit the LYL section of the website.
