Why You Need to Make These Cheese Straws Whenever you take the time to make something fairly labor-intensive like laminated dough, it's great to have a way to use all of it up, including the scraps. Puff pastry cheese straws are just the thing to make sure you use literally every square inch of your homemade puff. You can flavor them however you like, but I will say that this particular combination of Parmesan cheese and spices is a winner. It's barely a recipe and more of a Serving ... continue reading...
Individual Chicken Pot Pies with Puff Pastry
Why You Need to Make These Chicken Pot Pies Many, if not most, of the recipes I've seen for chicken pot pie use a white sauce. And while white sauce is delicious, it is not the most delicious sauce for pot pie. Making a veloute (vel-OO-tay) is as easy as making a roux and then adding chicken broth or stock and bringing it to a boil. The result is a silky-smooth, thick, chicken-y sauce. Add some cream to a veloute, and you have The Ideal Sauce for pot pie. Instead of starting with ... continue reading...
Palmier Recipe (Elephant Ears)
Watch my best palmier recipe web story here. What's a Palmier, Anyway? A palmier is a puff pastry-based cookie made by rolling either homemade puff pastry or storebought puff in sugar on both sides. Once the sugar is embedded in both sides of puff, it gets folded in such a way that, when baked, they puff out to look a bit like palm leaves or elephant ears. They aren't hard to fold, I promise. I'll show you how. They bake up crispy and light with a ton of flaky layers plus ... continue reading...
Puff Pastry Spiced Apple Turnovers
Watch my best apple turnovers web story here. Why You Need to Make These Apple Turnovers When you think apple turnovers, you may think of the fast food version. Those certainly have a nostalgic feel to them. But just because a food is mass-produced, there is no reason you cannot make your own with all the care and nuance you'd afford to a fancy baking project. What you'll find in this recipe: If all of that sounds like something you'd enjoy, these puff pastry apple turnovers ... continue reading...
The Best Chess Pie
Watch my best chess pie web story here. Why You Need to Make This Chess Pie Recipe Before developing this particular recipe, I took a look at 6-7 other highly-rated chess pie recipes. I took what I considered to be the best elements of each and combined them into an ingredient list that makes sense to me as a "desperation pie," basing my assumptions on what folks a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago would have had on hand. The result is a creamy pie with a bit of ... continue reading...
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