This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Mulled Butter Apple Pie is basically an apple pie made with all-butter pastry, filled with apples mixed with browned butter that has been cooked with some “mulling” spices (cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, ginger, peppercorns and a strip of orange zest). A touch of sugar … Read more
This week, the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a peach pie of the best kind. Made with Dorie’s sweet tart dough, this pie/ tourte is filled with fresh peaches that have spent some time in some brown butter (to give them a lovely nutty flavour). SO good, especially now when peaches … Read more
Fall has definitely taken hold over these past few weeks. The days are shorter and it’s dark not only when I get up but also when I come home. I’m craving comfort food but often that means dishes that require long, slow cook times and when you get home from work on a long day, … Read more
A few weeks ago at the Roncesvalles Polish Festival, I ate a pierogi pizza from Pizzeria Defina. It was seriously good and no it didn’t have pierogies on top of it – rather it had bacon, potatoes and some cheese on a lovely thin crust. I’d been thinking about it trying to recreate it since … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was one I couldn’t wait to try. Blueberry Nectarine Pie (p 384) couldn’t have come at a better time – I’m in Paris with access to beautiful fruit and I loved the idea of slightly tart blueberries with juicy sweet nectarines. But in a pie? Hmmm… Now don’t take … Read more
The savoury pie episode of Recipe to Riches was one I was waiting for this week. Recipe to Riches (“a new competitive reality series where each week, Canadian home cooks battle to have their original recipes become a President’s Choice product, win $25,000 and become eligible for a grand prize of $250,000″) is now in its … Read more