puff pastry tacos

puff pastry tacos

At the start of 2024, I began following Dominic Franks on Instagram.  His upside-down puff pastry cooking for sweet and savoury dishes got my attention. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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reverse puff pastry pizza

reverse puff pastry pizza

We love homemade pizza.  Who doesn’t?  And many have their favourite ways to prepare one but none, in my humble opinion, are as ingenious as a reverse puff pastry pizza!  This is a Jamie Oliver creation.  I recall the first time watching The Naked Chef when it first aired back in 1999.  We were living…

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savory palmiers

These delicate, but easy-to-make French pastries can be sweet or savory.  Palmiers, named so because they look like palm trees or the shape of an elephant’s ear, uses puff pastry for its base.  Traditionally, simple ingredients such as sugar and cinnamon are sprinkled over the pastry then folded, rolled, sliced and baked in the oven. …

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Caramelized Onion Tart with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

With all the food experimenting I do, baking with puff pastry has always been a challenge for me. I pore over cookbooks and sites looking for clues as to how to achieve the ultimate crisp and light pastry with flaky golden layers. I do all the things I am supposed to do – preheat the…

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