Yummy. We would like that.
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Pumpkin muffins and mini loaves. Subbed in some applesauce and ww flour. Gave more away.
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Baking for your community and promoting hope! I read that Asheville schools reopened today for a half day? Hoping this means conditions are improving all around including drinking and cooking water. The news stories about the communities taking care of each other are inspiring, even as the election looms.
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Still using purified water for cooking and drinking, but I am grateful to be able to flush toilets, wash hands, and shower. I learned today that CBS News did a feature on Asheville City Schools bridge to learning and they cut out all the student interviews talking about community togetherness and service. Bummer.
First day back was okay, I hear. At least no major complaints from the peanut gallery. 
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oh, sorry to hear about the CBS news feature cutting those student interviews. I’ll try to find the inspiring news articles I read about Asheville area really coming together for food and mutual help…must have been NYT and WaPo (which of course has new issues). So different from the pandemic with isolation to prevent infection. It’s going to take years for the region to recover. I hope the community togetherness will somehow stay in the cultural memory. It’s so inspiring.
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I have started a new job for a year, in a different team. Not quite sure how new team will be about baking, and also in a different building that has fewer people. But I am going back to my old building for a day for meetings, so brought them a cake: Pear and Cranberry cake from Snacking Cakes. It called for hazelnuts, which I didn’t have ( and don’t care for) so went nut free…
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Tomato mozzarella tart, a swipe of black tapenade on the bottom of the crust followed by a layer of mozzarella in very small cubes. Tomatoes had a spritz of evoo, a little more mozzarella and some seasonings.
Blueberries and crème pat mini tart and a blackberry one as well.
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Oh, yum! 
If only……
Well I hope you will be up to it soon! The fruit tarts are only a few bites each, I saved the foil molds from pasteis de nata and have been reusing them . A few weeks ago, I used them for a tomato version similar to the larger tart. They made for a tasty bite for aperitif time.
This has components similar to your savory tarts, except that the tapenade is put on after the pastry is baked. I like the contrast of hot and cold. Doesn’t look so great, but tastes wonderful, even if I say so myself!
Note: the last time I posted the picture, I got some smartass comments.
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Is that ricotta underneath the tapenade? Puff pastry?
Feta. Yes.
HAS to be eaten right out of the oven.
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For those getting started on holiday treats, new threads for 2024 are up:
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Hmm. Appetite for a baking-specific holiday thread? That’s what I’d like, but curious to hear other thoughts.
The only reason I broadened it is because so few things are not baked – and those people would have to find somewhere else to post them.
(The only current place is the “Doughs & Desserts that are not baked” thread.)
Historically, hasn’t there been catchall “holiday treats” threads? Perhaps that was more true on Chowhound, but people do make more than cookies, etc., so this covers the candies, spiced nuts, and whatever all else as well. It’ll probably mostly be baked goods, anyway!
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Looks really tasty, just bought a bag of cranberries and had pulled out my Snacking Cakes book!
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Umm. Any team would be thrilled (and lucky!) to have your baked goods!
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I’d rather not splinter the discussion since there is one already devoted to both. Just my $.02
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It was very popular!
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