This month’s challenge may have been a bit of a challenge for a lot of people. I’m not so sure that everyone enjoys pastry doughs and batters quite the way I do. That said, it turned out to be a bit of a challenge for me, as well. Though I had great plans of making homemade…
Yesterday I promised you a savory recipe using pie dough, so here it is! We grew quite a few butternut squash in our garden this year, so I’ve been dillegently working to make puree and stock my freezer (you can puree butternut squash the same way you would puree pumpkin). The last time I made…
If you read my piece on baking with butter over at In Jennie’s Kitchen a few months ago, you already know that I am a big fan of Michael Ruhlman’s book Ratio. It has definitely freed me from always being tied to a recipe or cookbook. That’s not to say that I never follow a…
Quiche or tart? That is the question. At least, that is the question I posed to my twitterverse yesterday as I was making this dish. When baking an egg mixture in pastry shell in a tart pan, is it a quiche or a tart? Turns out (thanks to @EpicureanJourney) that a quiche is actually a…
A few weeks ago I tried a quiche recipe from a vegetarian cookbook I purchased. I wasn’t impressed by the recipe – it was fairly bland and did not seem to have the right pastry to filling ratio. I wasn’t ready to give up on quiche altogether, though. So, I set out on a mission…
