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

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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 […]


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 […]


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 […]
