Pink Lady® Rose Tarts

The September ingredients for the #ImprovCookingChallenge are apples & oatmeal. Yea! Now I can try a recipe I’ve been drooling over for years.

I chose Pink Lady® apples so that the flesh would impart a nice tinge on the “rose petals”…

First thing I had to do was to transform the oatmeal into a flour. That was accomplished in about 50 seconds with my Blendtec.

I made my tart dough and let it set for a bit while I prepared the apples. (I sliced them nice & thin with the mandoline.) I rolled out the pastry & cut out rounds to fit my muffin tin. Rolling up the petals was a pretty slick job; I had a little difficulty transferring them neatly to the pastry.Mmmmmmmmm, they smelled so lovely whilst baking…Delicious!Here are the recipes:

Check out what my Improv friends did with their apples & oatmeal:

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Sweet Birthday Weekend

Last month we were thankful to spend Keith’s birthday out of the harsh Phoenix temperatures which neared 120° by the end of the week. Tucson was a much cooler 104°!

We were fortunate to get a reservation at the beautiful Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.

The tub,

the room,

the food,

& the views made for quite a lovely getaway!

Thanks for the great rates, Groupon!