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Entries Tagged as 'Pies and Tarts'
Pierre Herme’s Vanilla Tart
July 27th, 2009 · 68 Comments · Culinary Obsessions, Pastry, Pies and Tarts
Pierre Herme's vanilla tart is a study in different pastry techniques, from tarts to mousses and let's not forget his fantastic white chocolate glaze!
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Pastry Bootcamp with Tartelette
July 14th, 2009 · 32 Comments · Culinary Boot Camps, Pastry, Pies and Tarts
Learning about french desserts like mousse cakes and tarts can be a fun weekend activity.
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Feeling whole again…
July 11th, 2009 · 14 Comments · More Kitchen Musings, Pies and Tarts
I knew when I decided to move to wordpress from typepad that it would be painful to leave 3 years of work behind me as there was no direct conversion between these two blogging platforms. I thought of moving some of my essential posts manually like the macaron chronicles, duck confit , culinary boot camps [...]
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Getting Tarty
April 4th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Local Food Musings, Pies and Tarts
The Pie Crust Experiment
December 17th, 2007 · 31 Comments · Culinary Obsessions, Pies and Tarts
Talking with my sister-in-law one day, she told me how my mom was trying to teach her how to make pie crusts. My mom is 79 years old and lives oceans away from me. I have never learned to cook…
Tags:Pie and Pastry Bible·Pie Crust·Rose Levy Beranbaum·Sherry Yard
Tartlet Gold!
September 18th, 2007 · 36 Comments · Pies and Tarts
I love receiving packages. I love coming home to see a box sitting in front of my door waiting to be taken inside to be opened. I’d always check the tracking number of an item I’ve ordered to see if…
Tags:Citrus Curds·Kate Zuckerman·Meyer Lemons·tarts·The Sweet Life
The Tartlets of Balthazar
July 17th, 2007 · 14 Comments · Food and Travel, Pies and Tarts
I can’t stop thinking of my tartlet rampage last weekend. It was as if I could not control myself from sampling the tempting display at the Balthazar Bakery. This started on Friday, I was anticipating my solitary dinner there and…
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Not the tart I had in mind …
June 17th, 2007 · 21 Comments · Pies and Tarts
I had white cherries in mind for this particular tart but life does not always work out the way I plan it. After seeing white cherries for weeks at the supermarket they were conspicuously absent the weekend I decided to…
I’ve gone a-tart-ing
June 1st, 2007 · 27 Comments · Pies and Tarts
I have a confession to make. I did not know how to hull a strawberry until I made this dacquoise. I am one who has no knife skills when it comes to a paring knife (now the chef knife is…
