Recently America’s Test Kitchen posted the “perfect chocolate chip cookie” recipe online. As a cookie monster, I was intrigued. A perfect chocolate chip cookie? Better than Levain Bakery on the Upper West Side?! How was this possible? While I’ve yet to try ATK’s version, I was totally intrigued by their use of browned butter instead [...]
Category Archives: Pastry
Apple and Cheddar Tart
So I moved. It started out on Saturday with me calmly boxing up cookbooks and tenderly wrapping wine glasses in tissue paper. It ended Monday morning in frantic tears as I threw frying pans haphazardly into paper bags (which, obviously, ripped as soon as I lifted them) with totally unrelated items like extension cords and [...]
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Cheese Straws
Crispy, crunchy, cheesy, buttery—who doesn’t like cheese straws? They are perfect around Christmastime because no one would ever dare eat that much butter any other time of the year. Seriously, scroll down. This post’s pictures are comical. Yes, I really did take a whole pound of butter. And yes, I really did pound it with [...]
Also posted in Appetizers
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Fennel and Leek Quiche
Is it just me or is quiche underrated? Quiche is easy to make, totally delicious to eat, and perfect for using up Miscellaneous Fridge Veggies. There’s so much egg and cheese involved, it’s sort of hard to make a thing like quiche taste bad. Granted, your arteries probably don’t want you to slam down a [...]
Also posted in Breakfast, Eggs, Lunch
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(Really) Rustic Bourbon Peach Tart
texas lottery My brother is home from Hawaii for his inaugural visit, so I decided to take advantage of my two days off this week and head to Massachusetts for a family reunion. As luck would have it, our family’s house is surrounded on 3 sides by farmland and orchards, so this Friday’s post pretty [...]
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