Archive for the ‘Tarts and Pies’ Category

There were two things about this tart that I immediately disliked when I read the recipe.  The first, and probably most important, is that I hate fruit.  Hate is, yes, a strong word that really should be reserved for enemies and evildoers, but I’ll just come out and repeat it.  I hate fruit.  For me, [...]

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Apple Cobbler.

19Apr10

To be brutally honest, cobblers are not the favorite child in the baked and topped fruit dessert family.  At least in my baked-topped fruit family.  Falling just short of a crisp, and maybe slightly above a Brown-Betty, the cobbler is truly the middle child.  More of a biscuit than a cake, but too soft and [...]

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In case you were under the impression that this was a health-conscious blog—for some reason that does not appeal to any sort of logic, at all—this may come as a bit of a surprise.  But when recipes are considered, when ideas are floated around, squeals of delight and giggles most commonly coincide with the recipes [...]

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I’m just going to come out an admit it.  Sometimes, just sometimes—which translates into almost all the times, without fail and in rain, sleet, and/or snow—I talk to my recipes.  It’s not strange, I promise.  It’s totally, completely, absolutely normal.  Right?  Right? So on these, rare, rare, occasions when I may let out a sigh [...]

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Some might say it’s a little bit ironic that the best Alsatian meal I had on a vacation that included a tour of the actual, physically real and totally European—complete with the Rhine and lot’s of very, very old buildings—was actually in New York City at the Café D’Alsace.  Yes, even though I may be [...]

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Francois Payard, I want to love you, I really do.  It’s me I’m sure, not you.  But for the second time in the row, it hasn’t worked out between us.  I know, I know.  It’s my fault—I’ve obviously been overworking or under working everything.  But it’s a trend, and it’s causing me a little distress. [...]

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Handpies.

05Jul09

If there were a most perfect food, it would be some form of finger food.  In all aspects, finger food is perfect.  While with silverware one avoids a little mess here like stained fingers and surprise stains found later long after that laundry detergent or aggressive super bleach can do anything about it, and maybe [...]


Bakewell Tart

27Jun09

The British have a way of naming food that hide any clues of what it they could possibly contain.  But as far as a Bakewell Tart goes—June’s Daring Baker’s challenge—the name is at least halfway helpful.  It’s a tart.  Yes, it could be savory or it could be sweet, but at least one can bet [...]



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