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How To Make a Warm Dill Cheese Ball
January 16, 2009 (Updated March 24, 2014) by
Some dishes you only make for a crowd. You may love it, but there's no way you can eat it all. That's one of the great things about the Christmas/New Year's holidays, is you can eat these party foods for a whole week. This one takes about five minutes to prepare and 15-20 to bake. Unless you go crazy and make your own pasty, that is. … [Read more...]
How To Make Croissants
January 15, 2009 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
My wife was making an appetizer for a party that called for a can of pre-made "crescent rolls" from the refrigerator section of the grocery store. I thought, "Surely I can make something at least as good as that." I overshot by a bit. I accidentally made something so much better than those blue cans that I couldn't believe it. Now admittedly, you can't slice these like a roll and make a breakfast sandwich out of them. The texture is way too flaky for that. But warm with a little butter, … [Read more...]
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January 14, 2009 (Updated March 28, 2014) by
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How To Make Puff Pastry
January 13, 2009 (Updated March 23, 2014) by
This is not the post I planned on writing. This was supposed to be how to make croissants. There's this appetizer my wife makes that calls for a one of those blue cans of pre-made crescent rolls from the refrigerated section at the grocery store. I thought for sure I could do better than that. So I found a couple of recipes, mixed and matched the parts that sounded good, and ... holy crap I made puff pastry! That's supposed to be hard. For the past year I've been telling myself that "someday … [Read more...]
