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TBT Recipe: On Pastry Cream

TBT Recipe: On Pastry Cream

  The core of many desserts is pastry cream. It’s that “elegant goo” that makes you begin to think about having seconds, before your wife stares you down. I did this comparison a few years of “pastry cream” and I discovered that it...
TBT Recipe: Chicken and Asparagus Pie

TBT Recipe: Chicken and Asparagus Pie

It’s a confusing time of year. A friend of mine, with a house in rural Pennsylvania, said her crocus are up. Would mine be up? I can’t tell. I have 14″ inches of snow. A very confusing and tempting time of year. Spring is so close, with its bounty of...
Borek from Turkish Delights

Borek from Turkish Delights

Suzi and I continue our grand tour of Turkey thanks to the recipes of Turkish Delights by John Gregory-Smith. Around the world, there is common love for a particular comfort food: pastry pockets filled with savory or sweet fillings. They can be called hand pies or...
French Butter Pie Pastry from Pies, Glorious Pies

French Butter Pie Pastry from Pies, Glorious Pies

This recipe comes from a book titled Pies, Glorious Pies. The book has several lovely pastry recipes, all shown with a sequence of photos to guide you from flour to dough. Yes, pastry making is something that can trigger high anxiety. I can bake a cake or make a...
Cream Cheese Pastry for Empanadas and More

Cream Cheese Pastry for Empanadas and More

I am a fan of empanadas. I remember my first one and I remember making them decades ago. I had, then, a lovely little paperback with a pastry recipe that was part cream cheese and part butter. I moved, lots of times, and the book was lost and I just stopped making...