“You must always be awaggle with love.” ~ D.H. Lawrence

~ With advance apologies to Tea S. Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Brewing and William Shakespour.

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1. To tart or not to tart, that is the question.

Reasons for not making fruit tarts:

• Pesky little tart pans
• Stirring vanilla cream in nippy kitchen
• Finicky pastry dough
• Locate pretty fruit in the dead of winter? Oh, come on.

Reasons for making fruit tarts:

• Len loves them. Cornelius loves them. I love them. What person in their right mind doesn’t love them?
• It’s Valentine’s Day.
• Beloved blog readers might be impressed that an adorable a self-sacrificing writer stood in an icy kitchen for hours some minutes stirring, stirring the vanilla cream and whipping finicky pastry dough into shape after walking flying to Chile to pick fresh berries.
• Good excuse to buy a new tartlet baking set.

In the room the women come and go,
Talking of rolling pie dough.

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