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Tartiflette with Fromage Fort #FoodieExtravaganza


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This month Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories is hosting the #FoodieExtravaganza Potatoes event! Here's the line-up...


When recipe testing for a French Winophiles event earlier, I decided to pair one of the whites with a Tartiflette. Tartiflette is a traditional dish from the Savoy area of the Alps; it's made from potatoes, reblochon cheese, lardons, and onions. The dish's name derives from the Savoyard word for potatoes, tartifles.

When I couldn't get my hands on any reblochon, I decided to use up some leftover cheeses and turn 
them into a Fromage Fort

Fromage fort means 'strong cheese' in French and it's the ultimate way of repurposing leftover cheese. I love revamping leftovers into something completely different. We had several orphaned bits of cheese from recent parties, including a French double crème cow's milk cheese; Humboldt Fog, a goat's milk cheese with a ribbon of edible vegetable ash; an Italian taleggio; and Herve Mons' St. Nuage Triple Crème. To that I added some bleu cheese and feta crumbles and a dollop of mascarpone. Can you tell I'm a caseophile? We have a lot of cheese in the fridge!

Ingredients


Fromage Fort
  • 1/2 lb cheese remnants
  • 2 shallots, peeled and thinly sliced
  • pat of butter
  • 1/4 cup dry white wine (I used a Sauvignon Blanc)

Tartiflette 
  • 2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, scrubbed and dried
  • 2 Tablespoons butter, divided + more for buttering the baking dish
  • 2 yellow onions, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 1/4 pound salt pork, cut into slices
  • Freshly ground salt, as needed
  • Freshly ground pepper, as needed
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • Fromage Fort, as needed
Procedure

Fromage Fort
Put your cheese pieces in the bowl of a food processor or blender. In a small skillet, saute the shallots in a pat of butter until softened and translucent. Add the shallots to the cheese. 

Add 1/8 cup wine to the cheese-shallot mixture and pulse to process. Slowly add the remaining liquid to the cheese. Blend, again, until it becomes creamy, but not too soft. Spoon the cheese into small jars until read to use.


Tartiflette 
Cook the salt pork pieces until the fat is rendered and the pieces crisped. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter a baking dish.


Slice the potatoes into thin, even slices. I use a mandolin slicer. In a skillet with 1 Tablespoon butter, cook the onions until they soften, approximately 10 minutes. Set aside.


This part is all about making even and appealing layers to the gratin. I did one-third of the potatoes, one-half of the onions; one-third of the potatoes; a layer of Fromage Fort; one-half of the onions; one-third of the potatoes with the crisped salt pork on the top...and more Fromage Fort. Season lightly with salt and pepper at each potato layer.


Gently press down on the layers to create an even top. Pour the cream over the potatoes. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top layer of potatoes is tender and beginning to brown.


Remove from the oven and let rest for 10 to 15 minutes before slicing. Serve hot.


Well, that's a wrap for our potatoes event. I'm not sure what we have planned in the run to the end of they year, but stay tuned! These collections of recipes are always inspiring.


Comments

  1. A very sophisticated gratin! It sounds delicious.

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  2. Oh my YUM. This take au gratin potatoes to a whole new level.

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  3. I can't say that I've looked for reblochon here but in Dubai I was fortunate to find it in my nearby grocery store marked helpfully, in case one didn't know, as "fromage pour tartiflette." Fortunately, I always have a bag of ends and pieces of cheese in the freezer for just such a recipe as yours, Camilla. True comfort food.

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  4. This is amazing! I love the layering and this gratin sounds heavenly! Excellent recipe.

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  5. Oh wow! This looks incredible! Such a wonderful way to use up leftover cheese.

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  6. This sounds rich, creamy, and absolutely amazing! Definitely a recipe I want to try at least once...if not 50 times!!!

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  7. Di dunia tehnologi info khususnya internet, istilah Error 404 Not Found merujuk pada suatu web yang tidak dapat dibuka.

    Istilah ini di dunia akademik disebutkan dengan linkrot atau link yang telah membusuk seperti disebut oleh periset dari Whitireia Community Polytechnic, https://teknomags.com/ Selandia Baru, Alisa Parker dalam papernya dengan judul ‘Link Rot: How the Inaccessibility of Elektronik Citations Affects the Quality of New Zealand Scholarly Literature’ seperti diambil dari Tirto.id.

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