Cooking with Mumu: [Update] There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

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Tomato Pie
Rose Hip Jelly and Jam

There are 2 new posts in "Simply Recipes"

Tomato Pie

One of the great things about going on vacation is I get to hang out with my friends, and sometimes meet their friends, who sometimes have OMG-this-is-so-GOOD dishes that they bring over. This tomato pie recipe is a result of one of these encounters. The first time I heard of it ("tomato pie", hmm, oooookaaaay) my brain suffered a little cognitive dissonance (never heard those two words, tomato and pie, joined at the hip like that before). Seconds after taking a bite however, I was begging for the recipe. Many thanks to Diane Connolly (aka Lady Di) who graciously wrote it out on some post-it notes for me at the dinner table. It is the first thing I cooked when I got back home. Think pizza meets cheesy bread and they make-out in a pie crust. The recipe lends itself to estimates. Handfuls of this, handfuls of that. I measured, but you could eyeball it and it would still work out. Feel free to change the cheeses around, play with the spices. I made a homemade pie crust, but for this recipe a good quality prepared crust would work fine.

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Rose Hip Jelly and Jam

"Can we make rose hip jelly?" asked my young (10) friend Alden as we walked along the beach bordered by sand dunes covered with beach roses. "These," she said, pointing to the bright red jaw-breaker sized orbs in the thorny shrubs, "are rose hips. And mom says people make jelly out of them." We were surrounded by thousands of them. "Sure!" said I. Thank God for the Internet.

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