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La Tarte flambee

Posted on January 29, 2008 by eternal

On the German border of France, in and around Strasbourg and the rest of Alsace, you’ll find a little pizza like treat called la tarte flambée. Literally meaning “baked in the flames”, the Germans call it Flammekueche. You take a pizza-esque dough, roll it out very thinly, cover almost to the edges with fromage blanc [...]

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