Nadège Tart

I have been making a lot of pie deliveries of late. For reasons I won’t get into here. The biggest problem is that I’m almost out of “transportable” pies, especially in this summer heat. It’s not a good idea to make meringue in the height of summer (especially in this sort of sauna-like weather), but a thin layer shouldn’t be too difficult to manage.

The nadege tart is basically a lemon pie with a thin layer of sponge cake and a much reduced amount of meringue piped into a lattice pattern. The layering came out a little skewed; I ended up with nearly equal amounts of curd, cake, and meringue, when it should’ve been a lot more curd and a lot less cake. Funnily enough, only the meringue came out as it was supposed to.  

But it was still very good:) And no one seemed to notice (or rather, no one really knows what a nadege tart is, including me!). I shared this with my new colleagues as we sat for hours at a “liberally” air-conditioned Starbucks, talking about… well, all the random stuff girls talk about when they get together. I was, however, relieved to find out that I was not the only one to have had a somewhat disappointing 20s (though perhaps no one has had such an uneventfully tumultuous one as me), and to harbor somewhat resigned yet paradoxically hopeful feelings about the future. Hmmm.. maybe I am sort of normal after all. Among like-minded people, at least!