My Tutti Frutti Tart - No. 234

Making a simple pastry cream, favorite recipes to beat August heat, and one last word on Barbie

MY TRIP TO NORTHERN IRELAND was a recharge on so many levels. I am inspired by the reconciliation that has taken place in Ireland in the past 25 years.

And as always, I came home with new ways to bake.

Such as Ciara Ohartghaile‘s pastry cream recipe, which I had not made since I was in cooking school in Paris in the early 1980s, so it took me back. Ciara,…