Tag Archives: puff pastry

Chicken Pot Pie with a Puff Pastry Crust

One of my kids’ favorite meals is a classic pot pie. I am not too fond of pie crust (a bit too heavy for me), so I make my pot pies with store-bought puff pastry. The puff pastry is crispy and adds a lot of texture to the dish. I like to load the filling with a lot of...
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Caramelized Onions and Feta Pinwheels

I have been down with a severe sinus infection all day today. This meant getting the whole shebang of a headache, constant coughing, chills, fever and my perennial foe - asthma!  So I lay huddled up in bed all day while my three dogs lay close to me and kept me warm.  I told myself that my work and...
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Mushroom and Caramelized Onion Bites

I was in NYC last week to interview the celebrity chef Jehangir Mehta (runner up in the Food Network Iron Chef competition a couple of years ago) for the website www.talkingcranes.com . So as part of the interview “research” I ate a yummy dinner at Mehta’s restaurant Mehtaphor (highly recommend it!) and my favorite of all that I tasted...
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Ham and Cheese Cradled in Puff Pastry

A few years ago, my then 16-yr-daughter (she is now in college and training to be an Opera singer) wanted to go for a summer-long voice training program to a music conservatory in Nice, France.  She was too young to go overseas by herself (or that’s how I felt back then) and so I accompanied her on this trip. ...
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