Dinner with the lady

So last week I made dinner for a friend. Let's call her "the lady" because it makes her sound sophisticated and a bit scandalous which is nice.
It was a pretty stupid idea really since it was about 35 degrees out and I decided to make two pies.
I don't have air conditioning and I only have two windows. One at the front of the apartment and one at the back. Needless to say the place was like a Swedish sauna by the time she arrived.
Oops. I can't help it though. I get ideas and then I get so hungry for them that they must be made and devoured as soon as possible!

What I made was a mix of a couple of inspirations. The first was this thing called a "brik" which was featured in a Food and Drink magazine months ago. A "brik" is actually a Tunisian snack that according to F and D is simply a friend pastry stuffed with almost anything but always with an egg broken into the centre. After kind of reading the recipe I decided to make something similar but without the coriander and yogurt so as usual it became very creamy and very french... its becoming my signature. Instead of filo pastry I used puff ( in my eyes it's the only pastry). So the last photo is my first experiment with this concept. ( about a month ago)
It was delicious!

For my dinner with the lady I made a huge pie version of brik only I used some Greek influence by making it slightly resemble a spanikopita. I used lots of dill and feta and even half a brick of frozen spinach. I cracked an egg in each of the four corners of the pan and it turned out excellent. The crust is once again puff pastry and the filling is shredded and sauteed zucchini with onion and garlic. Once the zucchini were starting to loose all their water I added white wine and the herbs, let that reduce and then added cream, ricotta and feta. I put the filling into the base of the puff pastry that was lining the pan. I made four little wells in the filling and cracked an egg in each. After covering the pie with a puff pastry top I cut some slits for the steam to escape and put it in the oven for about 25 minutes at 250 degrees or so. (just keep an eye on it) It puffs up all lovely and brown when its done!
I should probably give a recipe with this but I'm rubbish at writing recipes so if you stumble across this and wanna make it, let me know. It's fantastic and very easy.
For desert I made a blueberry and peach pie. I didn't take pictures of this since I failed to thicken the filling sufficiently so it was as my lady called it " pie soup"
I covered it in cream and it went down just fine!
enjoy
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