on February 19, 2016by Fiona Ryan
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A couple of years ago, QAGOMA ran an exhibition called ‘Harvest‘, which brought together food themed art from its collection. Alongside the gallery installations they ran a food themed film festival. I tried to see at least two movies a week, sometimes with Anthony, sometimes with my Mum but often by myself. I got to catch up on all of these movies thatI missed the first time around. One of my favourites was the darkcomedy-dramaWaitress (2007) starring Keri Russell.
Kick In The Pants Pie
Jenna (Russell) is a waitress working in a diner in a small town in the American south. She is unhappy in her marriage and channels her creativity and longing for freedom into fantastical pie creations with equally fantastical names. Throughout the movie she creates pies, narrating theingredients and how the pie is prepared. We’re not talking about Mom’s Apple Pie here. There’s the Kick In The Pants Pie withcinnamon spice custard and the Lonely Chicago Pie with rich melted chocolate and smashed berries. When Jenna heads to her doctor for a checkup, she takes him a pie but as he’sout of town, she givesher pie to the locum Dr Pomatter and a very strange friendship ensues.With a fewtwists of fate, plenty of pies consumedand a good dose of sass handed out by the other diner waitresses Becky and Dawn, Jenna bakes her way out of a hopeless marriage and intothelife she dreamed of. A truly quirky movie. Unfortunately, things did not turn out so well in real life for Director/Actor Adrienne Shelly (Dawn). On researchingthis post I discovered that Adrienne was murdered in 2006, before the theatrical release of Waitress. You should make a point of seeing Waitressif for no other reason than to honour her memory.
On one of Jenna’s visits to Dr Pomatter, she brings alongPeachy Keen Tarts. As Jenna didn’t narrate this recipe I have created one of my own, based on a favourite Donna Hay recipe. The grated zest and lemony thyme adds the ‘keen’ to this tart. Jenna made small tarts but I have created one large tart instead. To be honest, if I had my way, I’d be baking the decadentMarshmallow Mermaid Pie howeverit’s peach, not mermaid, season so Peachy Keen it is. At the end of this post, I have listed the 19 pies Jenna makes in Waitress.
I have created this recipe to join the Food’n’Film linkup hosted by Emily from Cooking For Kishore. Her theme this month was ‘True Love’. Whilst Jenna and hapless husband Earl were certainly not a case of true love, I think I have a girl crush on strong, sharp, witty Jenna.
Jenna’s Peachy Keen Tart
(adapted from Donna Hay Modern Classics 2)
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain flour
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 150g cold butter, cubed
- 2-3 tbsp water, iced
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 tsp thyme leaves
- zest of 1 lime, grated
- 1 x egg
- 1 x egg white, extra
- 1 tbsp sugar, extra
- 6 x peaches, stoned and sliced
- 1 tbsp sugar forsprinkling
Method
- Place flour, 3 tbsp sugar and butter in a food processor. Process until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Whilst motor is running, add iced water a tbsp at a time until the dough just pulls together.
- Tip mixture into a bowl and knead gently into a ball. Wrap loosely with plastic and place in fridge for 30 minutes.
- Remove dough from fridge and place on a floured surface or between two sheets of baking paper. Roll dough out to an even thickness of around 2-3mm.
- Drape dough into 26cm tart tin and gently press into tin, making sure the dough is pressed well into corners of tin. Prick dough on base of tin with a fork half a dozen time (to dock the pastry).
- Cover dough in tin with a piece of baking paper and fill with baking weights or uncooked rice (to blind bake the tart shell).
- Place tart in an oven pre-heated to 180c and bake for 10 minutes. Remove paper and weights and bake for an additional 10 minutes until pastry is golden and starting to colour. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly.
- Whilst the pastry is cooking, mix sour cream, 2 tbsp caster sugar, thyme leaves and the egg in a bowl until well combined. Pour mixture into slightly cooled tart shell and bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and turn temperature up to 200c.
- Whip the egg white in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Stir through the peach slices, lime zest and sugar and spoon onto tart filling.
- Sprinkle the Peachy Keen Tart with the extra sugar and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. remove from oven and cool completely before removing from tart tin.
- Serve as is or with thickened cream or a saucy wink
Serves 8
Pies From The Movie ‘Waitress’
- I Don’t Want Earl’s Baby Pie or Bad Baby Pie (tomorrow’s Blue Plate Special) – brie quiche w a smoked ham centre
- Kick InThe Pants Pie – cinnamon spice custard
- I Hate My Husband Pie – bittersweet chocolate drowned in caramel
- Spaghetti Pie
- Marshmallow Mermaid Pie – coconut cream w marshmallows
- Fallin’ In Love Chocolate Mousse Pie
- Baby Screaming Its Head Off In The Middle Of The Night And Ruinin’ My Life Pie – New York cheesecake brushed w brandy & topped w pecans
- Peachy Keen Tarts
- Earl Murders Me Because I’m Having An Affair Pie – smashed blackberries and raspberries in a chocolate crust
- I Can’t Have No Affair Because It’s Wrong & I Don’t Want Earl To Kill Me Pie – vanilla custard with banana (hold the banana)
- Spanish Dancer Pie With A Potato Crust
- Naughty Pumpkin Pie
- Strawberry Chocolate Oasis Pie – bittersweet chocolate with a hint of spice
- Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser Pie – lumpy oatmeal w fruitcake mashed in (flambé of course)
- Lonely Chicago Pie – melted chocolate &smashed berries
- Car Radio Pie
- Jenna’s First Kiss Pie
- Old Joe’s Horny Pie
- Chocolate Moon Pie
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