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What a sad week it’s been for the food world. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that Gourmet magazine was folding after 70 years! I so love that magazine, and am so sad to see it go. At least its sister publication, Bon Appetit, will still be around.
I know it’s already October, and [...]

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If there is anything I always have in my refrigerator, it’s Fuji apples. I love how sweet and crisp they are. So I was excited to see that Dorie suggested them for her flaky apple turnovers. It’s not often that you see a sweet variety of apple as the star of a pastry-enveloped treat. Usually, [...]

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I’m starting to think that cream pies and tarts are my new favorite thing to make. And the primary reason for that is how quickly they come together! This is the third time I’ve made a Dorie Greenspan recipe using a pastry cream (the first was her French Pear Tart; the second was her Banana [...]

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I love banana cream pie. I once hand-carried a whole banana cream pie on a flight from Michigan to California, just so I could enjoy it with friends at my final destination. It was a girls’ trip, and we ended up eating the pie late at night, in our PJs, straight from the tin foil pie [...]

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Arrrg! The first Tuesdays with Dorie recipe of the year—and chosen by Dorie herself, no less—and I have the most awful pictures ever! Booo. This recipe was hands down the most delicious TWD recipe I’ve made thus far, and I all I have to show for it are these terrible pictures. Eeek!

I made this tart [...]

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