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I no longer like tarts. On top of that, I think my partner looks at the course load and when it's heavy she stays home! I wound up having to make 3 tarts crusts and fillings all by myself. At first, this didn't seem like a lot. My crusts came together nicely and easily but when I looked up, it was 8pm already! I still had to make custard, bacon, onions, apple compote and pastry cream! The chances of survival were slim. Thankfully, Chef noticed I was alone and gave me custard to fill my quiche. I managed to get the apple compote together and the apple tart in the oven but then things went downhill. The apples didn't brown as nicely as I expected but it still looked OK.

Then I realized I had the onions and bacon ready for the quiches but I didn't have my crusts fully prepared. I needed to blind bake my tarts for the quiche and the oven was full! I wound up waiting a while for the oven. I managed to get the quiche into the oven so that it was ready at 10:45pm - the exact end of class. They both turned out looking pretty nice so I brought them to work for lunch.

In the end, we never even made the pear tart but it's definitely a recipe I want to try at home sometime.