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Pie: You win some, you lose some…or both.

24 Monday Oct 2011

Posted by Jessica in Fails, Holidays, Pies & Tarts

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apples, baking, butter, Canada, crust, dough, fail, maple, pie, pie crust, Thanksgiving

Maple Apple Pie

Two weeks ago, I made a pie.  It was Canadian Thanksgiving.  I am not Canadian, and neither were any of us who were celebrating it together.  It’s just a thing we seem to do, at least since last year!

This pie marks the first pie crust of the dough variety I’ve made since my first unsuccessful attempt at homemade crust several years ago.  Anxiously, I thought of all of the things that could go wrong, from the typical (dense, not flaky crust) to the irrational (eaten by wild monkeys).

To help ease my worries, I went with a recipe from a source that has yet to let me down: Deb of Smitten Kitchen.  She has a few pie crust how-to’s; I went with the all butter crust from Pie Crust 102.

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Daring Bakers’ Challenge: Croissants!

27 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by Jessica in Breads & Muffins, Breakfast, Daring Bakers, Pastry

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baking, bread, breakfast, butter, croissants, Daring Bakers, fancy, French, Julia Child, laminated dough, pastry, yeast

Croissants et cafe!

The Daring Bakers go retro this month!  Thanks to one of our very talented non-blogging members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make Croissants using a recipe from the Queen of French Cooking, none other than Julia Child!

message from Lafitte the cat

YUSSS!  I’ve been wanting to make croissants for a long time but needed something to get me motivated to do so.  This is a perfect example of procrastination paying off: “make puff pastry” has been on my list of things to do before turning 30, but that hadn’t even been enough to make me do it yet. Croissant dough is technically puff pastry with yeast and sugar, by the way, so this totally counts.

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