Smoked salmon and zucchini tartlets

Happy Easter!! I hope you guys had a great Easter Sunday, this is indeed a festive day, since their little age, my girls wait for this day, the anticipation over all the delicious morsels they will find on the chocolate egg  hunt! Have I told you before my husband and both kids are chocolate addicts? well they are!! 🙂 And this year’s hunt wasn’t a disappointment! Here in the Dominican Republic this is not really a tradition, as you will understand leaving chocolate on the garden for a few hours while be a disaster! as we are having summer time type climates here already, but we manage!! This tradition was bring over by my husband’s family side! In France it is not the Easter bunny who brings the chocolate eggs!

France, with its strong Catholic history, celebrates Easter with great enthusiasm. The country revels in Easter festivities and shops are decorated with white and dark chocolate rabbits, chickens, bells and fish (often associated with Poisson d’Avril). Children wake up on the Easter Sunday morning in search of Easter eggs (les oeufs de Paques) around their house and garden. There are also many other Easter traditions:

Cloche volant or flying bells are another important part of the Easter traditions of France. French Catholics believe that on Good Friday, all the church bells in France fly to the Vatican in Rome, carrying with them the grief of those who mourn Jesus’ crucifixion on that day. These flying bells return on Easter Sunday morning and bring with them lots of chocolate and eggs. In keeping with the tradition, French church bells do not ring from Good Friday to Easter Sunday morning.

And then, the bells fly back on, Sunday morning and the egg hunt or “la chasse aux oeufs” is open, with usually someone saying  The bells were here or “les cloches sont passées” and all the children run outside (or inside) to collect chocolate or sugar eggs, bunnies, hens, chicks and lambs.

For this tart I used my pastry dough recipe you can find here and here is the rest of the recipe:

Smoked salmon and zucchini tartlets

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour

Servings: 8

Author: Gaila - The Petit Gourmet

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Ingredients

• 1 pastry dough recipe Link included
• 16 ounces Smoked salmon
• 1.5 cups of cream
• 4 eggs
• 2 zucchini sliced
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons chives finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon dill optional

Instructions

• Used the dough to cover 6 to 8 tartlets molds (depending on the diameter and volume of the molds) Each tartlet should suffice for one person.
• Pre heat the oven at 350 F.
• Bake with baking beads for 10 minutes.
• Place 2 ounces smoked salmon and zucchini slides on the tarlet bottom, sprinkle with chives and dill.
• Mix the eggs, cream salt and pepper, then cover the tartlets up to 3/4.
• Bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown, serve with a fresh mixed green leaves salad.

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Many people spend Easter Sunday with family members or friends and eat a festive meal. Over my husband’s family, we traditionally cook a large meal with a leg of lamb (roasted), with spring beans, flageolets or other freshly harvested vegetables. The table is usually very lively, with pots of flowers to honor the coming of Spring time. Brunches are always a great idea and I think theses tartlets are a great way of preparing ahead for this special occasion!

We here welcome spring with hopes of renewals and new beginnings!