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The Return of Magazine Mondays!
Date: Sep. 15th 2008
Category: Cookies and Bars, Magazine Mondays
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It’s been over a month since my last Magazine Mondays post. Hard to believe but true.
While my magazine pile hasn’t exactly dwindled all that much, I must say that Magazine Mondays has helped me to put some old magazines to good use. So I guess I don’t feel so bad about my food magazine habit.
Especially since I returned from Italy with a whole lotta food magazines!!!
For this edition, I chose a recipe from a specialty magazine I bought in 2006 called Lidia: Italy at Home. It’s a magazine that features the great Lidia Bastianich sharing Italian food tips, recipes and knowledge. There are a number of recipes that I bookmarked but the one that I chose to try was a recipe for Fruit Jam Tartlet Cookies.
The reason I chose this recipe is that it brought to mind the crostata made by my aunts in Italy. A crostata is an Italian sweet that can take many forms. It’s best described as a tart with some sort of fruit filling in the form of jam or fresh fruit. But crostatas can also be filled with chocolate, pastry cream and any number of other fillings.
My father’s family makes a very rustic type of crostata filled with homemade prune jam. My grandmother used to make the dough with oil but nowadays the dough is made with butter.
When I went to Italy in 2003, I was there for a very short time so the opportunity was never there for my aunts to make a traditional crostata with me. This time around, I spent so much time hopping from one family member’s home to another, that I once again missed the chance to watch my oldest aunt, Zia Filomena, make a crostata. She is the family’s undisputed master crostata-maker. So she’s promised me that next time, we will make that crostata together.
I plan on holding her to that promise!
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Ciao!
Fruit Jam Tartlet Cookies
From the 2006 issue of Lidia: Italy at Home.Note: These cookies are actually a crostata that is then cut into small squares to form cookies. You could just as easily serve the crostata whole. The recipe is published here (scroll down a bit on the page.)
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09/15/08 at 9:34 pm
I’ll be back on the bandwagon next week!
09/15/08 at 10:07 pm
A wonderful recipe! Those bars look incredibly delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
09/16/08 at 12:42 am
Travel is when I do my best food magazine reading. That doesn’t always work for cooking something out of a magazine:)
This is one really gorgeous tartlet cookie
09/16/08 at 5:07 am
What a wonderful way for the event to get back, Ivonne - this is luscious, my friend! Bookmarking the recipe right now!
09/16/08 at 5:07 am
This just looks amazing! Your lattice work is gorgeous!
09/16/08 at 5:09 am
wow I need to stop coming here, my keyboard is sticky with drool
09/16/08 at 7:10 am
I’m glad you had a chance to pick up some magazines while you were here. I look forward to seeing which ones you liked.
09/16/08 at 7:52 am
Yeah! I love Mondays again…thanks to you! These look amazing! I am for sure going to try them!
09/16/08 at 9:08 am
These look delicious! I think I may be brave enough to try these. Your food and pictures always look so great! I enjoy reading your blog.
09/16/08 at 9:38 am
Hurray for Magazine mondays! I love your cookies - it does look like a crostata and the weaving is gorgeous!
09/16/08 at 9:52 am
**jumps up and down in excitement, to celebrate the return of Magazine Mondays**
Those jam tartlets bring back nostalgia, since I ALWAYS used to get those for a treat at the local Greek Festival every year
09/16/08 at 11:17 am
This looks really tempting and I don’t usually like jam tartlets. The photo is really nice
09/16/08 at 6:13 pm
This looks fantastic to me. If you tell me it’s going to work with you for your coworkers I’m sure I’ll cry.
09/16/08 at 7:00 pm
They look so pretty! Very delicious!
09/16/08 at 10:31 pm
Geez, what a positively yummy way to spend Mondays!
09/17/08 at 12:21 am
Ivonne, I have to say, you put every cookbook or magazine recipe you post to shame with your marvelous skill and photographs of that skill. Those jam tartlet cookies look perfect and mouth watering, just like every other single recipe and photo you post. Love your site!
09/17/08 at 4:49 am
Oooh, these are so perfect! I could just eat one or… three… now ^__^.
09/17/08 at 5:32 pm
That looks amazing! SO pretty. I am assuming it is peach. It looks so yum. I have a basket of peaches in the kitchen that are getting a little past their prime. Hmm. I have already made like 16 or so pints of peach amaretto jam. I think I need to venture into this recipe. Thanks.
09/17/08 at 8:33 pm
Your squares are beautiful! I love to make bars like this.
09/18/08 at 9:35 am
Wow, these look wonderful! What a beautiful presentation of a usually very rustic looking treat. I can’t wait to make these!
09/19/08 at 2:10 am
These look scrumptious! You’ve just reminded me to go through my magazines!
09/19/08 at 5:36 pm
Those look awesome. I just got some huckleberry jam and I think I know what to use it for now!
09/20/08 at 3:15 am
I love the photo of them whole…beautiful!
09/20/08 at 2:59 pm
Your fruit tart jam tarlet cookies look delicious. I am going to make these with my favourite jam - fig jam.
Great photos!
09/21/08 at 6:05 am
So beautiful, your pastry is perfect.
You are making me want to go to Italy….
09/22/08 at 5:07 am
I just love crostata… le tue crostatine sono deliziose!
Ciao.
10/23/08 at 1:13 pm
Mmmm…I love crostada! How nice you were able to see your aunt make one while you were in Italy. Yours looks perfect and delicious!