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pies and tarts

Peach Blackberry Buckle

August 16, 2010

Hello, friends! I’m back from California, my tote fully stocked with edible goodies and pictures galore. I’ll be spending some time this weekend sorting through the 1,171 pictures I took for highlights beautiful or mouthwatering enough to share with you all. My fuel for the picture-perusing is a generous helping of this crisp, and while [...]

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Sour Cherry Almond Torte

June 23, 2010
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Remember last week when I gushed about the beginning of sour cherry season? Well, the gushing continues. I’ve gone through 3 pounds of cherries so far, and while I know that’s not very much for folks making 12 jars of jam, the cherry pits are accumulating rapidly. Sour cherries have made their way into 5 [...]

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Jam-Filled Hand Pies

June 15, 2010
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Pies are finicky, finicky things. Taming bursting, juicy berries into a perfect pie is the ultimate challenge of summer, and getting that bottom crust to stay crispy requires nothing short of a miracle. I’ve tried everything: I paint the inside of the bottom crust with egg before adding the fruit, I’ve drained the fruit, tossed [...]

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Vanilla Custard Strawberry Tart

May 22, 2010
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I find it hard to put a finger on what makes vanilla so special. It’s the girl next door to chocolate’s cheerleader popularity, the “best supporting actor” to every winning cake. Vanilla is so subtle, so modest, it’s easy to take it for granted. Well, don’t. Since spring produce is in abundance, I’ve been playing [...]

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Linzertorte

May 5, 2010
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If you’ve eaten your vegetables — in this salad and this delightfully spring-y side dish and oh, this is quite nice, too, I forgot about it! — I’ve got some dessert for you. It’s Linzer Torte, and it’s such a steadfast ritual in this house, I’m practically embarrassed to have not shared it before now. [...]

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Blueberry Cornmeal Tart

March 13, 2010
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The only thing better than discovering in your fridge the ingredients for a fantastic winter salad is discovering in your freezer the ingredients for a fantastic summer tart in the middle of March. I was looking for the wheat bran I use to make my weekly bread, when I jackpot and happened upon a bag [...]

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Feta Phyllo Torte

July 9, 2009

Feta Phyllo Torte Of all the incredibly culinary feats out there (and there are plenty), one of which I’m truly in awe is the ability to consistently serve vegetarian food that fees like a main dish. As I’ve written before, one of the challenges to purely vegetarian cooking is that often, everything on the table [...]

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Bouchon-Inspired Lemon Tart

April 27, 2009

On my last trip to New York, I stood on the third floor of the Time Warner Center for about an hour just waiting to get into Bouchon Bakery. It didn’t work out — the person we were meeting was on a tight schedule — so we ended up eating salads at Whole Foods. Ever [...]

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