In need for a filling brunch plate, Girish shares her recipe for goat cheese and veggie tart. Because making the filling may be time-consuming, Girish uses soft bread for the crust which reduces the cooking time.
Goat cheese and veggie tart
This goat cheese and vegetable tart is the perfect way to start a lazy Sunday morning. It’s perfect for brunch, and the generous amount of goat cheese keeps you full for hours. Making the filling does take some time because all the veggies are finely chopped. In order to make up for it, I found that using soft bread instead of a traditional tart crust saves loads of time and you still get the same results.
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 2 red onions
- 4 mushrooms
- 1 yellow zucchini
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 cup marinara sauce
- 3 ounces goat cheese
- 8 slices of gluten-free bread
- Butter
Direction
- Finely chop the onion, mushrooms, zucchini, and bell pepper.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan and add garlic and onions.
- Once the onions start to caramelize, add the mushrooms and zucchini.
- Cook for 2 minutes and add the bell peppers and marinara sauce.
- Stir well and let the mixture simmer.
- Grease a tart or cake pan with butter.
- Cut the crusts off of the bread slices and gently roll them flat with a rolling pin.
- Line the bread along the bottom and the sides of your prepared dish.
- Press the bread nicely into the pan and fill in any gaps with smaller pieces. Finally, brush the bread with melted butter and pop the base into an oven preheated to 450 °F. Cook for 10 minutes.
- After the base has slightly browned, add the filling, spreading it evenly.
- Generously crumble the goat cheese over the filling and broil the tart for 4 minutes to slightly brown the goat cheese. Be careful not to burn the edges of the base.
- Slice and serve hot.
The exponential rise in COVID-19 Cases
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Just one week after hitting 10 million COVID-19 cases, the U.S. has hit 11 million. Staff reporter Haille Hughes says there is no doubt that cases are surging, and as people are getting more restless, they’re getting more reckless.
Just one week after hitting 10 million COVID-19 cases, the U.S. has hit 11 million. There’s no doubt that cases are surging, and as people are getting more restless, they’re getting more reckless.
While COVID-19 originated in late 2019, most in the U.S. would recognize March 13 as the start of the downward spiral that has been 2020. For a lot of students and educators, it was the last day of a semi normal life before corona really hit.
As schools shut down, so did businesses both big and small.This threw everyone into a life they were not used to, and we’ve lived with this life for the past eight months. People are getting tired of all of it, and it makes sense. We can’t expect people to accept this as the new normal; especially when the old normal lasted years. However, if people miss the old normal so much, we have to stop pretending that nothing ever happened.
After about mid September, cases have been going up exponentially. People are hanging out in large groups, they’re not wearing masks, and they’re going to and hosting parties. They’re doing the very opposite of what we need to be doing. That’s why cases have been rising these past few months. People are tired of the strain this pandemic has put on their lives, so they’re being reckless everything as close to normal as possible.
The more we cover ourselves with this veil of normality, the more harm it’s going to cause us. You can’t run or hide from problems as big as a pandemic. That’s why it’s important to continue the same practices we had at the start of all this. We need to keep wearing masks, we need to keep social distancing, and we need to stop acting like everything is normal. It’s hard, it sucks, but if we as a country can do this, we can decrease cases exponentially, instead of raising them.