Desserts/ Recipe

The Wine and Pine Savory Galette Experiment (guest post)

Good morning my darling readers!
 
Today I have a special treat for you! Beth of Young Idealistic Baker is visiting us with an uber fun guest post swap! She’s a hoot and one of the most generous and honest people I’ve had the opportunity of meeting. I’ll be keeping her.
 
Summer is on it’s way out now that September has arrived. And while I know I’m going to get my little greasy hands slapped for this, I’m glad for it. Bring on the Autumn! I’m ready! And as a send off to Summer, Beth and I are posting recipes for Fresh Summer Berries. Oh yes. You love it.
 
And once you’re finished reading hers, visit Beth and I at her blog to see how I can’t follow directions (and see what I made).
 
Enjoy!
 
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When I first discovered Kristy and Gastronomical Sovereignty, I was completely smitten not only with her great recipes and photographs, but also with her cheeky humor that shines through on her blog. We started chatting and when she suggested creating a guest post, I was nothing short of thrilled.
 
Kristy and I have both created and featured “failed” galettes on our blogs, failures only because they didn’t turn out as beautiful as one might have hoped. Word to the wise: anyone who regularly uses the expression, “easy as pie” to describe simple tasks is mistaken. The only thing easy about making pie is messing it up. There is a definite art to making great pies and it’s something I’ve tried hard to master since I started baking several years ago.
 
Berry-Galette
Galettes are the slightly more forgiving, rustic-looking French cousin to traditional American pie. Since Kristy and I have had similar sorry experiences with galette making, I suggested we both try making galettes again, this time with the support and encouragement of a fellow blogger.
 
To determine the star ingredient and guidelines of this challenge, we left things up to fate. A few coin tosses sealed the deal: Kristy would create a sweet berry galette and I would create a savory berry galette.
 
Have you ever tried to make a savory dessert from berries? Their perfect summer sweetness compliments any number of dessert-y flavors from vanilla to chocolate, but I don’t often think to mix them with savory flavors. This proved to be a bit of a challenge. My first thought was to pair fresh berries with a mild cheese like goat cheese and toss in some fresh thyme or rosemary. This concept evolved slightly to encompass Brie and rosemary, and then went through one more evolution to become the wine-soaked berries, Brie and pine nut galette with a rosemary crust that you see here today.
 
Since wine-soaked berries, Brie and pine nut galette with a rosemary crust is such a mouthful of a name, and since I can’t shake my love of puns, this dish shall henceforth be known as the Wine and Pine Galette. I will whine for wine until it’s given to me and pine for more when it’s gone. Add the pine nuts, berries and rosemary, and we’ve got ourselves a great savory galette!

Wine and Pine Savory Galette

Ingredients

Crust:

  • 1 1/4 cup flour
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 8 tablespoons (1/2 cup) frozen butter, cut into small cubes
  • 1/3 teaspoon salt
  • 1-2 large sprigs or about 1 tablespoon rosemary leaves, finely chopped
  • 3-5 tablespoons ice water

Filling and Assembly:

  • 1 heaping cup mixed berries
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 cup red wine
  • 1 rosemary sprig
  • 1/2 tablespoon pine nuts
  • 4-6 ounces Brie, sliced

Instructions

Crust:

  1. Cut butter into flour and mix with hands, breaking down butter until largest piece is no bigger than a pea.Add sugar, salt and rosemary and mix until incorporated.
  2. Add water 1 tablespoon at a time until dough is just sticky enough to bind together in a single clump.Mold into a disc shape, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Filling and Assembly:

  1. Toss berries with sugar and let sit for about 5 minutes (the sugar draws out the berry juices).
  2. Add wine and rosemary and let sit for at least 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  3. Roll out dough on a well-floured surface until it is about 13 inches in diameter and about 1/8 inch thick.
  4. Move dough to a parchment lined baking sheet (this makes the next steps easier).Starting from the center, arrange brie in a spiral, leaving at least 1 1/2 inches of dough on all sides. Strain berries from wine (reserve this to drink later) and arrange berries on top of brie slices. Sprinkle pine nuts over the berries and fold edges over so that the crust contains the filling.
  5. Refrigerate for 10 minutes and preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  6. Bake at 400 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

Notes

Adapted by Beth

 


 
  • Teresa, foodonfifth.com
    September 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    This is a lovely little Galette my friend…not a failure at all. That is the beauty of galettes…it is really hard to not make them beautiful. It is their rustic, not-perfectness that is so appealing. Love the pine nut addition.

    • Beth Wittenstein
      September 4, 2013 at 7:26 PM

      Thank you so much, although my first galette really was far from beautiful. I’ve kept practicing though and I guess fourth time is the charm! 😉

  • Charly Alberts
    September 10, 2013 at 1:52 PM

    I really like the recipe mentioned above. I always love to do experiments with wine. I think nothing can beat a nice mulled wine during winter’s evening. I usually prefer to pair up red wine with a variety of spices especially with fishes. Brewing wine at home is very easy and perfect for dinner parties.

  • Aurica
    March 7, 2014 at 9:28 AM

    let me have it, let me taste that marvelous dessert with some red wine and somebody next to me 😀

    • Kristy Gardner
      March 7, 2014 at 4:18 PM

      Exactly my response Aurica! 🙂