Apple Flognarde

Found this at Chicho's Kitchen blog - very easy, very fast, very yummy!  Great for a quick dessert, and it's good hot or cold.

Ingredients (serves 6):
3 apples
3 large eggs
1 ½ cups milk
½ cup sugar
½ cup + 1 tbsp flour
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Preheat the oven at 400ºF.

Peel and core the apples then cut into chunks.

Grease a tart tin or pie plate with butter and sprinkle some flour. Place on a baking sheet.  Place apples in the prepared tart tine or pie plate.

Gently heat the milk until warm. In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs until blended and foamy. Add the sugar, flour, oil and whisk until smooth. Gradually whisk in the warm milk.

Using a ladle, carefully pour the liquid batter over the apple chunks, filling up to the rim.

Bake for 30 – 45 minutes until the flognarde is puffed and golden. 

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Notes:

I cut the apples into a large dice instead of chunks.

Expect that it will deflate a bit after you remove it from oven.

Pear & dried berry clafouti

Made this last nite for DH to take to work -- the L&D folks gave it a thumbs up! One called me, and raved! Some were ok with it, but not thrilled with a "custard." (the idea, mostly)

Normally, this is made with cherries, and the recipe I used as a guide is from Martha Stewart (a Pear & Dried Cherry Baked Custard - see below). Due to the season, I thought the cranberries would be a nice touch, and blueberries are ALWAYS good! I was told the variety of flavors, of sweet and tart, was nice.

I used a porcelain baking dish since my pie plate was too small in diameter. This dish was deeper than a pie plate and my more shallow baking dish is currently MIA -- this may have affected the cooking time. It needed to bake about 10 minutes longer to set, perhaps because the dish is only 8.5-9" rather than the 10" recommended, and therefore the batter was deeper.

I'll make it again in a couple of weeks, for the staff meeting and will post their feedback.

adapted from Pear and Dried Cherry Baked Custard in MS's Dinner at Home (2009):

Serves 4

Unsalted butter, for baking dish

1/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1/2 cup dried cherries
1 ripe pear, preferably D'Anjou, peeled, halved lengthwise, and cored
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 large eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/4 cup sugar

Pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Butter a 10-inch fluted tart dish or pie plate. Dust with flour; tap out excess. Put cherries in a bowl; cover with boiling water by 1 inch. Let stand until plump, about 10 minutes.

Cut pear lengthwise into a 1/8-inch-thick slices; fan slices in bottom of prepared dish. Process remaining ingredients in a blender until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour batter over pear slices. Drain cherries; sprinkle over batter. Bake until golden and set, about 25 minutes. Let stand at least 15 minutes before cutting wedges.