King Arthur's Tart
Let me be the first to say that I love Mark Bittman. He's hilarious, his recipes are tasty, and he's not all high-brow and scary like Food Network recipe folks sometimes are. But oh god Bittman, your recipes are a BITCH to follow. I think my husband put it best when he said, "It's a recipe, not a story." Seriously. Don't write out your recipe in paragraph form. Give me each step in a bulleted list. Don't make me do math in the middle of doing a recipe just to figure out how much flour is "remaining flour." I measure as I go, man. Not everybody's got this nice kitchen with all these cutesy little glass bowls to hold their perfectly measured ingredients. Instead, I've got a normal kitchen and a LIFE, thank you can we move on now. *cough* This is my take on Mark Bittman's Mock Lattice Pie (or Stone Fruit Patchwork Bake, depending on which page of his blog you're on). I'm calling it the King Arthur Tart (or The Sword in t