Davis Farmers Market recipe: A Rustic Sweet Tart for every season - The Mercury News
A galette or a rustic sweet tart is a delicious way to turn farmers market fruit into dessert splendor. (Getty Images) You've just gone crazy at the farmers market, snapping up the snap peas, perhaps, or scooping up bushels of stone fruit. What now? If you're Ann M. Evans, co-founder of the Davis Farmers Market, you turn to your handy stash of eight go-to, customizable recipes for savory tarts and rustic galettes, gratins, fricassees, pastas and risotto, all designed to showcase whatever's in season. These are recipes, Evans says, "I use day in and day out throughout the year when I cook from the market." Whether you've got cherries, apples, kiwi or quince, this rustic tart or galette recipe is the ticket to sweet success. The flaky, free-form pastry holds peak-of-season fruit, no tart pan necessary. Basic Rustic Sweet Tart Recipes with Apples Serves 8 Crust: 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon sugar ¼ teaspoon sea...