Baking

Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

If you don’t know, duxelles is just French for “mushrooms cooked down into paste”. Mushroom paste? Blech. No wonder they made up a fancy-sounding word for it. But it is yummy if you’re into mushrooms. If you’re not, I completely understand because I have hated mushrooms my whole life until very recently when I had [...]

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Homemade Bourbon Pecan Pie

Pecans and bourbon are harbingers of cooler weather around these parts. Pecans ripen in October which makes them synonymous with Fall. Bourbon can be harvested all year round, but it is particularly nice when it’s cold outside. (Maybe they should call it “Brr-bon”! Just kidding.) Bourbon also happens to be a damn fine addition to [...]

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Butter Pie Crust

Pie crust has a bad reputation, but it needn’t. There are only three absolute requirements to any pie crust: fat, flour, and liquid and once you understand the science behind it you’ll be making kick-ass pie crusts every time, all the time. The first step of pie crust making is very much like the first [...]

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Pumpkin Cake Donuts!

YAYAYAY!!!! Halloween is almost here! My FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVERRR! I LOVE SATAN!!!! Just kidding about that last part. I do love Halloween, though. Big-time. I love gory makeup and spooky sound effects and fake blood and ripped-off arms and popped-out eyeballs and skulls and teeth just sitting there chattering on a table, not even inside [...]

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Waffles

Laurel is back, you guys! As a follow up to last week’s Spanakopita for Lovers, we’re making waffles for the morning after! If y’all haven’t yet checked out Laurel’s site Trophy Boutique, you are missing out on some awesome tips on how to dress yourself, some funny writing, and some pretty pictures. Laurel was actually [...]

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