A pie (パイ, pai?) is a baked dish that traditionally consists of a baked flour crust stuffed with either sweet or savory ingredients. Usually circular in shape, they may be cut into slices or eaten whole. Cherry PiesA young Teach eating a cherry pie.A cherry pie (チェリーパイ, ...
It’s better to give a pie 10 minutes too long than 10 minutes too little. You want a deeply browned bottom crust and fruit that has not only released juices but thickened up to a luscious, glossy consistency.Happy making pie from scratch!
Pie crust has a mythic status as one of the hardest recipes out there to get just right. Great pie crust is flaky but not crumbly, and holds together but isn’t tough. If you’ve not yet mastered it, take a deep breath and get out the vodka. Start by pouring some over ice (if ...
As last year's runner-up in the Baltimore Sun's Maryland Beer Battle and rated #1 by BeerAdvocate, the tangerine- and grapefruit-flavored beer is making a name for itself, as is Union Craft Brewing Company. Making the malt even more interesting is the brewer's latest launch in February w...
Second up, Beggar’s Linguine was actually one of the easier recipes we ever made, but pasta with dried fruit and nuts sounded… well… nuts! Seriously! As I’ve probably said many times over the course of this journey, there is no way I would have made this recipe if it wasn’t fo...
The most important goals of this project are learning new things, having fun with the kids and exposing them to vegetables and recipes they might like to try. It is not about making them eat something they do not want to eat. So when I read about the book It’s Not About the ...
Okay, so that’s all great…but which butter does one choose when baking? And is that butter different if baking cookies or pie crust or croissants or ??? Salted vs. Unsalted First of all, I’ll start by saying that unless I’m in a pickle, I use unsalted butter for baking. Not ...
Added a little flour, sugar and cinnamon to the fruit and let it sit while I made the pie crust from scratch. Scratch, it turns out, includes BOTH 6 tsp. very cold unsalted butter and 2/3 cup of very cold Crisco. To 2 1/2 cups of flour, I used a pastry cutter and hand blended...
No, instead, I decided I’d forge on with my “resolution” to cook more, eat out less, try new recipes, and blog more. (I am not a fan of new year’s resolutions – it seems like I’m just setting myself up for failure). ...
and I think there are enough people who don’t want to buy or prepare food that they can bring the boring but necessary stuff. I have never had a “go to” appetizer, so if asked to bring one, I would rifle through cookbooks and other sources of great recipes for something to make;...