August 26, 2010
This recipe is enough to make me eat my words. I don’t like marzipan, I find Emeril Lagasse’s TV persona annoying (his toothpaste commercials were the final straw for me) and I avoid pre-packaged items on principle. And yet, this recipe, which became a favourite within two bites, calls for almond paste, boxed puff pastry [...]
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October 13, 2009
Pastry is fickle. One day you’re rolling dough like it’s a bolt of white velvet and pulling a golden bubbling dessert from the oven. The results are so fine you briefly consider embroidering “Pie Guru” on your apron. Only you don’t know how to sew, so you put that idea away for when people ask [...]
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