Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Pear, blue cheese & walnut tart  Pears pair with tangy blue cheese and honeyed walnuts in this gorgeous tart. Makes 26cm tart  Pastry  200g wholemeal flour  100g chilled butter ½ teaspoon salt  6 tablespoons ice cold  water  2-3 pears  2 tablespoons butter  ½ cup brown sugar  3 heaped tablespoons cream cheese  75g crumbled blue cheese (I used Kapiti creamy blue) 3 tbsp walnuts, roughly chopped Make the pastry by combining flour, chilled butter and salt in a food processor until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Don’t over work it – lumps of butter are ok. Drizzle in the ice cold water and pulse a few times until it starts to come together in a ball. Turn out and with a light hand press it together into a flat disc, wrap and chill it for 15 minutes.  Preheat oven to 180 C and place a tray in to heat up. Line a 26cm tart tin with baking paper. Roll out pastry and line tin with it. Try to get a thin pastry shell and just patch any holes or tears, it’s very forgiving. Prick all over with a fork and return to t