This dinner was the first Sunday Night Dinner in 2016! We made lamb ragu pasta for our entree, but the main focus of the night was Banana Tarte Tatin with whipped cream. It was our first time making the Banana Tarte Tatin, and we were very pleased by the results. We also made an arugula salad with slightly cooked walnuts, goat cheese, and cranberries. The Banana Tarte Tatin was surprisingly sweet, so we recommend not adding to much sugar to the whipped cream. The lamb ragu is pretty easy: just three main ingredients: ground lamb, onions, and chopped tomatoes (of course you need olive oil and salt and pepper….and grated cheese on top:).
The meal: arugula salad and lamb ragu. (Dessert was banana tarte tatin)
Cooking ground lamb and tomatoes for lamb ragu
The ingredients for Tarte Tatin
Cooking maple syrup, butter and vanilla bean
Placing bananas in the syrup
Ready to go into the oven(puff pastry on top)
Baked Banana Tarte Tatin (before the flip)
The Final Result (after the flip…pastry on the bottom now)!
Free form cinnamon pastries (from extra puff pastry)
