Whole Lemon Tart

It's Back to the 50's Car Show time in our hood. I love this weekend, when gorgeous "old fashioned cars," as Millie calls them, troll our streets and show off their purty selves at the State Fair Grounds. No need to pay the enterance fee, even a simple trip to Target becomes our very own Car Show. The cars, and their giddy, friendly owners are everywhere!

One of our neighborhood's fun traditions is a walk to Snelling (our main road in front of the State Fair Grounds) to camp out and watch the cars in an unofficial parade. Before the parade, we invited friends over to grill. Steaks, shrimp, orzo salad, grilled asparagus, roasted beets with walnuts, green salad with home-made citrus dressing, fresh fruit, chips and salsa...is that all? 

Nope! I decided to tackle my very first tart. I have always been very intimidated by the whole tart/pie shell challenge. But this was the day, I was going to stare fear in the face, and eat it. 

The results? Fabulous. Thanks to my favorite blogger, Smittenkitchen, the process was fairly painless, even if a bit time consuming. And the filling was the easiest, craziest thing I've ever baked. An entire lemon, yep, rind and all, thrown to it's death into the food processor along with a couple of other readily available ingredients and wham bam thank you ma'am, you have a tart! Served with some fresh blueberries and it's summer on a plate. 

Did I mention there were only five of us? Left overs anyone? 

Whole Lemon Tart by Smitten Kitchen: Click her for recipe and great photos.