Bright and joyful - a tart for summer

One of yesterday's papers had a galette recipe, and it looked very good, but it also looked a bit of a faff.

This tomato and courgette galette is *not* a faff. New to me, cheeringly simple, bright as anything. Excellent with summer pink wine.

Start with some shortcrust pastry. Make it if you like, but one shop packet is what the recipe says, and that's what I used. Allegedly roll it into a circle but I bought the ready-rolled kind and had a square baking tray, so that worked for me.

Slice and fry an onion (sorry), till soft. Then arrange the onion on the pastry, a bit in from the edges. Add plenty of grated Cheddar. Then some tarragon. Then a layer of thinly sliced courgette.

(I may have forgotten the tarragon at the right moment and had to tuck it in later. Not a lot of bother, really.)

Then add a load of chopped tomatoes, different colours and sizes for fun, says the recipe - I had many colours but only small ones. Then fold in the edges of the pastry, over some of the tomatoes. Egg wash it if you can, which I did for once. Whack it in a medium oven (170deg fan), for 40-50 minutes. Mine only took 40, so look out.

It's very delicious, and easy. I was a bit worried it would be enormous, but the topping is pretty thin - not like making a massive quiche for one and eating it all week thereafter. I just had this with roasted wet garlic (nom) and about half the tart was a brilliant dinner. So if you're catering for more, probably make sides.