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Food Processor Pate Brisee or Flakey Pastry Crust

2023/01/19 By Melinda Leave a Comment

My go to quick and easy flakey pastry crust made in the food processor in about five minutes

Filed Under: Breads Biscuits Buns, Quick Breads, Recipes Tagged With: butter, crust, pie crust

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Basil Butter: a basic recipe and ways to use it.

2019/06/07 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Side dishes are my secret weapon. Pickled things, biscuity bites, sauces, and now- butter. Like this  versatile and flavorful butter compound loaded with fresh basil and garlic.  Radishes! ways to use the basil butter Use this basil butter as a spread for sandwiches, like the cucumber sandwich pictured below or schmear it on spring radishes […]

Filed Under: Condiments, Sauces, and Gravies, Recipes, Sides and such Tagged With: basil, butter, garlic, spreads

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Tender Cream Cheese Pastry Dough done Danish Style

2017/02/16 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Tender Cream Cheese Pastry Dough done Danish Style

Tender Cream Cheese Pastry Dough done Danish Style A mash-up of one of the easiest doughs and one of the hardest, tender and forgiving with tons of flaky layers, perfect for turnovers both savory and sweet. This  is an ideal lazy lousy weather day project, with an active time of about thirty minutes (excluding the […]

Filed Under: Breads Biscuits Buns, Breakfasty Brunchy, Recipes Tagged With: butter, cream cheese, danish dough, pastry, pie dough, turnover

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Feeling Lucky: Individual Irish Soda Breads with chive butter

2015/03/17 By Melinda 1 Comment

Quick and delicious Individual Irish Soda breads slathered with chive butter. Made without eggs and kneaded in the food processor these rolls, adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, are as quick as biscuits but as versatile as yeasted bread. Feeling Lucky: on finding four-leaf clovers For my fifth and sixth grade years we […]

Filed Under: Breads Biscuits Buns, Cast Iron, Irish Inspired, Quick Breads, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: butter, Chives, Irish Soda Bread, quick, rolls, Saint Patricks Day

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