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Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best
Er... the post says walnuts, but the pictures are garnished with pecan halves. Which is it?
I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!
I also got the mushroom and taleggio version--I'm going to make it for Friday's supper. If I can find taleggio cheese, that is.
Cook the Book: Simple Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate souffle, mmm...
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Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
Ooh. I have one sweet, and one savoury. For our tenth birthdays, my maternal grandmother offered all of us grandkids whatever we wanted for a present. We could ask for anything. My older cousin asked for a horse. I asked for a trip to Hawai'i. I have a lot of great memories from that trip, but one of a small restaurant we ate at in Maui, which had a fluffy, tangy, overwhelmingly delicious passionfruit pie, the like of which I will probably never eat again. It was a slice of my Platonic Ideal of pie-dom.
The savoury is my mom's chicken pie, with her homemade shortcrust rolled thick and baked to crisp perfection, and a filling like thick, dumplingless chicken and dumplings, but with sliced eggs. She made it for company once, and I've been trying ever since I got a kitchen of my own to recreate it. Since she cooks off the cuff, like my grandmother (and, I have to admit, I do it too), she's never been quite able to remember what she did that night to make it so perfect. So I just have to keep trying until I get it right.
Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best
Er... the post says walnuts, but the pictures are garnished with pecan halves. Which is it?
I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!
I also got the mushroom and taleggio version--I'm going to make it for Friday's supper. If I can find taleggio cheese, that is.
Cook the Book: Simple Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate souffle, mmm...
Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'
Whole wheat, brown rice, and oats, in no particular order. It's become a lot easier to find whole wheat baked goods at the grocery store, and always makes a good loaf of home-baked bread. Plus the recent explosion of whole wheat pastas (and even whole wheat couscous at our Mediterranean grocery!) have been pretty good, I think. We also eat a lot of Japanese food, and thus a lot of brown Calrose rice. And now that I've found an oatmeal recipe I'll eat (apart from making granola out of it), we've been going through the big packages of rolled oats pretty quickly.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
TORTIERE! It is an amazing French-Canadian Meat Pie and my mother makes it every Christmas Eve! It simmers ground beef, veal and lamb together for hours with spices and fills a buttery double pie crust and is baked to perfection! OMG!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The most memorable pie for me would probably have to be when I first got to have a piece of chocolate cream pie at Thanksgiving. I had been allergic to dairy and finally outgrew it. I was thrilled to get to finally get to try it!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
Fried Apricot Pie at Pat's Barbeque in Fort Worth. Back when I was in high school a certain group of us from the nearby neighborhood used to hang out there after school and on weekends. Barbecue bologna sandwiches and fried pies were our staples along with the fountain-made cokes and 7-Up's to which you could get vanilla or cherry syrup added. But the apricot fried pie was the most delicious pie I have ever eaten...the crisp pie crust was tender and not greasy and was overloaded with pure mashed redolent apricots...that is all you could taste along with the subtle unctiousness of butter. I have never tasted a pie purer in flavor since.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
I was on vacation in Dutch Country, Pa. I had to try thr Sho Fly Pie. It was different . I rather have a blueberry pie anyday
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
Pecan Pie...When I was young I always thought it looked gross...but once I tried one that my mom made, I was hooked!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The most memorable pie I ate was an apple pie in Oak Glen, California at the pick-your-own fruit orchards there that was piled high with delicious fruit.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
my sisters impossible pie. I still can't figure how it works but oh my goodness it is so good!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
my moms pumpkin pie was the best in the world :)
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The Key Lime Pie at the Colonial House at Busch Gardens in Florida. They have the BEST and I've tasted a lot of these everywhere I travel. This one was creamier and yummier. I need their recipe.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
My mom's strawberry pie. I love it, and I don't even like strawberries that much. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
Great-Grandma's Chocolate Cream Pie! She always made a little bowl for me with the leftover pudding. I loved "Pudding Skin" then, as much as I do today!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The most memorable pie I've ever eaten was a creamy coconut pie made by my grandmother. She would use eggs from her own chickens and cream from her own cows. Oh, what a walk down memory lane.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The most memorable pie I ever ate was my mother-in-law's Banana Cream Cheese Pie. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
My grandmother's Key Lime Pie, from fresh key limes grown in her own yard. She's been gone a long time, but I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
My sister in law's apple pie.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
My husbands grandmothers chocolate pie. It is so rich and yummy.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
I always look forward to having pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
my mother used to make the best lemon meringue pie!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
I remember my Moms lemon meringue pie. She kept the recipe in her head and nobody can reproduce it.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
i had this really delicious chocolate cream pie that my mom makes, she only makes it for special occasions though :{
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
Mince pie made with beef suet.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The most delicious pie I ever experienced was from a bakery that is no longer in business. It was a chocolate blackbottom pie with marshmallow meringue on the top. The flaky crust was also devine. My brotherand I have spent years trying to find a pie that even comes near to the original, but have had no luck. I have even found recipes to try, but they all fall short. Oh my! I wish you hadn't brought this up. LOL Thanks so much for this giveaway.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
The first time I had a slice of warm blueberry pie a la mode at a diner is most memorable of all. It was sooooo good!
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
My mom's pecan pie is very memorable!
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Ooh. I have one sweet, and one savoury. For our tenth birthdays, my maternal grandmother offered all of us grandkids whatever we wanted for a present. We could ask for anything. My older cousin asked for a horse. I asked for a trip to Hawai'i. I have a lot of great memories from that trip, but one of a small restaurant we ate at in Maui, which had a fluffy, tangy, overwhelmingly delicious passionfruit pie, the like of which I will probably never eat again. It was a slice of my Platonic Ideal of pie-dom.
The savoury is my mom's chicken pie, with her homemade shortcrust rolled thick and baked to crisp perfection, and a filling like thick, dumplingless chicken and dumplings, but with sliced eggs. She made it for company once, and I've been trying ever since I got a kitchen of my own to recreate it. Since she cooks off the cuff, like my grandmother (and, I have to admit, I do it too), she's never been quite able to remember what she did that night to make it so perfect. So I just have to keep trying until I get it right.